E-Books: Full-Text Online Books on South Asia

• Adi-Granth. English.
  Sri Guru Granth Sahib. English Translation. Translated by Sant Singh Khalsa. [Online Edition: Sandeep Singh Brar. 1998]
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• Allen, David Oliver.
  India, ancient and modern. Geographical, historical, political, social, and religious; with a particular account of the state and prospects of Christianity. Boston: J.P. Jewett. 1856. [Online Edition: University of Michigan Digital Library]
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• Allen, William Osborn Bird
  A parson's holiday : being an account of a tour in India, Burma, and Ceylon in the winter of 1882-83. [s.n., s.l.] 1885. [Online edition: Cornell University Library, 2005]
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• Alter, Joseph S.
  The Wrestler's Body: Identity and Ideology in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992.
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• Ambedkar, Bhimrao Ramji.
  Annihiliation of caste. (Multimedia study environment). [New York] : Columbia CNMTL, c.2004-. (Original print edition, Bombay, 1936).
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• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Deputation to the India missions.
  Report of the Deputation to the India missions made to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at a special meeting, held in Albany, N.Y., March 4, 1856.. Boston: T.R. Marvin. 1956. [Online Edition: University of Michigan Digital Library]
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• Anwar, Mohammad.
  Child trafficking for camel races: a perspective from Pakistan. Karachi: Centre for Research & Social Development. 2004.
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• Aubertin, John James.
  Wanderings and wonderings : India, Burma, Kashmir, Ceylon, Singapore, Java, Siam, Japan, Manila, Formosa, Korea, China, Cambodia, Australia, New Zealand, Alaska, the States. London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., Ltd. 1892. [Online edition: Cornell University Library, 2005]
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• Baker, Samuel White.
  Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1881. [Online Edition: Pittsburgh: Lakdiva Books. 2000]
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• Baker, Samuel White.
  Rifle and Hound in Ceylon. Philadelphia: Lippincott. 1869. [Online Edition: Pittsburgh: Lakdiva Books. 2000]
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• Basham, A.L.
  The wonder that was India: a survey of the culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims. New York: Grove. 1959. [Online Edition: University of Michigan, 2005]
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• Bhagavad Gita
  Indian History Sourcebook: Bhagavad-Gita Or Song Celestial. Translated by Sir Edwin Arnold. [Online Edition: Paul Halsell. 1998]
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• Bhagavad Gita
  The Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. [Online Edition: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. 1989]
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• Bhagavad Gita
  The Bhagavad-Gita As It Is. A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. 1972. [Online edition: asitis.com]
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• Bhagavad Gita
  The Bhagavad Gita, Translated by Ramanand Prasa. Fremont, CA: American Gita Society. 1988.
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• Codrington, Humphry William.
  A Short History of Lanka. London: Macmillan. 1926. [Online Edition: Pittsburgh: Rhajiv Ratnatunga. 2000]
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• Colavito, Luke A.
  High Yak Cheese Production in Nepal: An analysis of privatization policy incorporating the impacts of market failures for agro-industries in developing countries. [Blacksburg, Virginia] : Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, Virginia Tech. 1997.
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• Cole, J.R.I.
  Roots of North Indian Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1988.
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• Demboowski, Hans.
  Taking the State to Court: public interest litigation and the public sphere in metropolitan India. Essen: Asia House. 2001.
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• Dimock, Edward C., Jr., et al.
  A Bengali Prose Reader for Second-Year Students. Chicago: University of Chicago. 1988. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library.]
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• Dissanayake, Daya
  The Saadhu Testament. [nl]: Daya Dissanaye. 1998.
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• Eaton, Richard M.
  The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1993.
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• Fa-hsien
  A record of Buddhistic kingdoms being an account by the Chinese monk of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline. Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1886. [Online Edition: BuddhaNet E-books].
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• The foreign exchange of hate: IDRF and the American Funding of Hindutva. Mumbai, India: Sabrang Communications & Publishing Pvt. Ltd., and The South Asia Citizens Web, France. 2002. [Online Edition: The Campaign to Stop Funding Hate: Project Saffron Dollar].
  • (See also the rebuttal to this report by LetIndiaDevelop.org, a  press release on the report by the IDRF, and the  counter-rebuttal by the Stop Funding Hate campaign.
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• Gandhi, Mohandas K.
  The Story of My Experiments With Truth. [Beacon Press. 1963. Online Edition: Mahatma.org 2000].
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• Ghazali, Abdus Sattar.
  Hegemony of the Ruling Elite in Pakistan. [np: Eagle Enterprises]. 2000.
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• Ghazali, Abdus Sattar.
  Islamic Pakistan: Illusions & Reality. [Print Edition: Islamabad: National Book Club. 1996. Online Edition: np: Eagle Enterprises]. 2000.
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• Great Britain. India Office.
  East India (Statistical abstract): Statistical abstract relating to British India from....1840/1865. London: India Office. 1867. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Green, Jeremy and Robert Parthesius (editors).
  Galle - A Port City in History. Papers from the Seminar, 15 November 1997, Galle. Sri Lankan Department of Archaeology. (Australian National Centre of Excellence in Maritime Archaeology; Special Publication No. 2). [Online Edition: Compiled by Rohan Hettiarachchi]
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• Gulrajani, Jethmal Parsram
  Sind and Its Sufis. Adyar, India: Theosophical Publishing House. 1924. [Online Edition: FreeSindh.org; Indian Institute of Sindhology; Nadeem Jamali]
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• Hill, Edward C.
  A Primer in Telugu Characters. New Delhi: Manohar Publications. 1991. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Human Rights Watch
  India: "we have no orders to save you" : state participation and complicity in communal violence in Gujarat. New York: Human Rights Watch. 2002.
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• Irschick, Eugene F.
  Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.
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• Kak, Ram Chandra
  Ancient Monuments of Kashmir. Online Edition: Delhi: Utpal Publications - Jammu-Kashmir.org - Kashmiri Pundits. 2001. (Orig. published London: The India Society. 1933).
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• Kalidasa.
  Sacontala; or, the Fatal Ring: an Indian drama by Cálidás, Translated from the original Sanscrit and Pracrit by Sir William Jones. [Calcutta, 1789]. [Online edition, edited and with Introductory matter by Frances Pritchett.]
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• Kipling, Rudyard.
  Plain Tales From the Hills. [Online Edition: Project Gutenberg, 1999, published via netLibrary.]
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• Kumar, Nita.
  Friends, Brothers, and Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1992.
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• Lamb, Sarah.
  White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2000.
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• Mahanama, 5th cent.
  The Mahavamsa : The Great Chronicle of Lanka. Translated from the Pali by Wilhelm Geiger. Colombo : Government of Ceylon, Information Department. 1912. [Online Edition: Pittsburgh: Rhajiv Ratnatunga. 2002].
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• Mahomet, Sake Deen, 1759-1851.
  The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India. Edited with an introduction and biographical essay by Michael H. Fisher. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997.
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• Malkani, K. R.
  The Sindh Story. New Delhi: Allied Publishers. 1984. [Online edition: FreeSindh.org : Nadeem Jamali. 1997].
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• Malte-Brun, M.
  Island of Ceylon. [Chapter XLIX of System of Geography, Boston: Samuel Walker. 1834]. Online Edition: Pittsburgh: Lakdiva Books. 2000.
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• Mishra, P. C.
  A Primer in Oriya Characters. Puri Town, India: Smith Orissa Research Project, [1985]. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Naim, C.M.
  Introductory Urdu (Volume One). Chicago: South Asia Language & Area Center, University of Chicago, 1999. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Naim, C.M.
  Introductory Urdu (Volume Two). Chicago: South Asia Language & Area Center, University of Chicago, 1999. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Naim, C.M. ed.
  Readings in urdu: prose and poetry. Honolulu: East-West Center Press, 1965. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Nanda, B. R.
  Mahatma Gandhi - A Biography. [Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Online Edition: Mahatma.org 2000].
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• Narula, Smita; Human Rights Watch.
  Broken People: caste violence against India’s "untouchables". New York: Human Rights Watch. 1999.
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• Nasr, Seyyed Vali Reza.
  The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama'at-i Islami of Pakistan. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.
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• Oliphant, Laurence.
  A journey to Katmandu (the capital of Nepaul) with the camp of Jung Bahadoor. New York: D. Appleton. 1852. [Online edition: University of Michigan.]
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• Panchatantra. English.
  The Panchatrantra. Translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur W. Ryder. Bombay: Jaico Pub. House, 1949. [Online edition serialized in InternetIndia.com (Puretech Internet Pvt. Ltd.) 1998.]
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• Pinch, William R.
  Peasants and Monks in British India. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1996.
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• Pritchett, Frances W.
  Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.
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• Pritchett, Frances W. and Khaliq Ahmad Khaliq.
  Urdu Meter: A Practical Handbook. Madison: Univeristy of Wisconsin, South Asian Studies. 1987. [Online edition: [New York] : Frances Pritchett. 2003.]
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• Ramanujan, A.K.
  A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India. Edited with a preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997.
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• Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
  Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1997.
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• Ray, Babu Mallinath.
  A Monograph on the Wire and Tinsel Industry in Bengal. Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Book Depot. 1910. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
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• Roy, Beth.
  Some Trouble with Cows: Making Sense of Social Conflict. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1994.
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• Roy, Parama.
  Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1998.
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• Ruswa, Mirza Mohammad Hadi
  Umraʾo Jan Ada Lakhna'u: Munshi Gulab Singh aind sanz Pres, [1899]. [Online edition: Columbia University Libraries, 2007].
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• Saraswati, Baidyanath (editor)
  Life-style and Ecology. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi Centre for the Arts. 1998.
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• Syed, G.M.
  Nation in Chains. [Sindh] : G.M. Syed Institute of Social Sciences, [1974].
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• Syed, G.M.; translated by Egbert Azariah
  Shah Latif and His Message. Sehwan Sharif: Sain Publishers. 1996. (Online edition from G.M. Syed Institute of Social Sciences, Sindh).
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• Tagore, Rabindranath
  Fruit-Gathering (translated into English by the author). London: Macmillan. 1916. (Online edition by Eldritch Press).
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• Tagore, Rabindranath
  The Home and the World (translated into English by Surendranath Tagore). London: Macmillan. 1919. (Online edition by Eldritch Press).
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• U.S. Department of State
  Foreign Relations of the United States 1964-1968 [Johnson Administration], Volume XXV: SOUTH ASIA. Washington: Department of State. 2000.
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• U.S. Department of State
  Foreign Relations of the United States 1969-1976 [Nixon-Ford Administrations]. Volume XI: South Asia Crisis, 1971. Washington: Department of State. 2005.
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• U.S. Department of State
  Foreign Relations of the United States 1969-1976 [Nixon-Ford Administrations]. Volume E-7: Documents on South Asia, 1969-1972. Washington: Department of State. 2005.
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• Valmiki. [Ramayana. English]
  Rámáyan of Válmíki. (translated by Ralph T. H. Griffith). London: Trübner & Co. 1870-1874. [Online Edition by sacred-texts.com]
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• Valmiki. [Ramayana. English]
  Srimad Ramayana: The Travels of Rama. (Book One, translated by Karnamrita Dasa). [Online Hare Krsna Edition: B.M. Soul. 1997]
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• Vatsyayana. [Kamasutra. English]
  The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra. Translated from the Sanskrit by Indra Sinha. London: Spring. 1980
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• Venugopalan, K.
  A Primer in Grantha Characters. St. Peter, Minn.: James H. Nye. 1983. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].
• Vidyaranya. [Jivanmuktiviveka. English]
  The Treatise on Liberation-in-Life, Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of The Jivanmuktiviveka of Vidyaranya. Dissertation by Robert Alan Gooding, University of Texas at Austin, 2002. [.pdf file].
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• Walsh, John Johnston
  A memorial of the Futtehgurh mission and her martyred missionaries: with some remarks on the mutiny in India. Philadelphia: J.M. Wilson. 1858. [Online Edition: The Making of America, University of Michigan].
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• Zide, Norman H.
  A Premchand reader. Honolulu: East-West Center Press. 1965. [Online Edition: Chicago: Digital South Asia Library].