BOOKS REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCESSEverything on the main "Sources" website is open to the public. But there are some useful online texts that require special arrangements for access. For the benefit of teachers and serious students, here are the ones I know of.
KEY:
ACLS = American Council of Learned Societies, *History E-Book Project*
N = the *NetLibrary* collection
UC = for *Univ. of California* people only
== Bahu, Sultan, Death before Dying: The Sufi Poems of Sultan Bahu, trans. James J. Elias (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) -- N; UC
== Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (New York: Routledge, 1998) -- N
== Burton, Antoinette M., At the Heart of the Empire: Indians and the Colonial Encounter in Late-Victorian Britain (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) -- N; UC
== Burton, Antoinette M., Burdens of History : British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1994) -- N
== Collins, Charles D., The Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta (Albany: SUNY Press, 1988) -- N
== Cort, John, Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Culture in Indian History (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998) -- N
== Davidson, Ronald M. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) -- N
== Edney, Matthew H. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997) -- N
== Ernst, Carl, Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992) -- N
== Figueira, Dorothy M, Translating the Orient: The Reception of Sakuntala in Nineteenth-century Europe (Albany: SUNY Press, 1991) -- N
== Gandhi, Rajmohan, Eight Lives: A Study of the Hindu-Muslim Encounter (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986) -- N
== Ganeri, Jonardon, Philosophy in Classical India: An Introduction and Analysis (New York: Routledge, 2001) -- N
== Gold, Ann Grodzins, A Carnival of Parting: The Tales of King Bharthari and King Gopi Chand as Sung and Told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) -- N; UC
== Gommans, Jos J. L., Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, 1500-1700 (New York Taylor & Francis, 2003) -- N
== Hawley, John Stratton, and Donna Marie Wulff, Devi: Goddesses of India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) -- N; UC
== Hodgson, Marshall, The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974, 3 vols.) -- ACLS
== Jackson, Carl T. Vedanta for the West: The Ramakrishna Movement in the United States (Bloomington Indiana University Press, 1994) -- N
== Jones, Kenneth, Religious Controversy in British India: Dialogues in South Asian Languages (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992) -- N
== Kamra, Sukeshi, Bearing Witness: Partition, Independence, End of the Raj (Calgary, Alberta: University of Calgary Press, 2002) -- N
== Knott, Kim, Hinduism: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998) -- N
== Larson, Gerald James, Religion and Personal Law in Secular India : A Call to Judgment (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001) -- N
== Lorenzen, David N., Bhakti Religion in North India (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995) -- N
== Ludden, David E., Contesting the Nation: Religion, Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996) -- N
== Lynch, Owen M., Divine Passions: The Social Construction of Emotion in India (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1990) -- N
== Mahmood, Cynthia Keppley, Fighting for Faith and Nation: Dialogues With Sikh Militants (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997) -- N
== Malandra, Geri Hockfield, Unfolding a Mandala: The Buddhist Cave Temples At Ellora (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993) -- N
== Mani, Lata, Contentious Traditions: The Debate On Sati in Colonial India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998) -- N; UC
== McLeod, John, The History of India (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) -- N
== Metcalf, Barbara Daly, trans. and ed., Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990) -- N; UC
== Minor, Robert Neil, The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and Secular India (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999) -- N
== Mishra, Vijay, Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998) -- N
== Pandey, Gyanendra, Remembering Partition : Violence, Nationalism, and History in India (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001) -- N
== Pintchman, Tracy, The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1994) -- N
== Pintchman, Tracy, Seeking Mahadevi: Constructing the Indentities of the Hindu Great Goddess (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001) -- N
== Ramanujan, A. K., Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman, When God is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) -- N; UC
== Rigopoulos, Antonio, The Life and Teachings of Sai Baba of Shirdi (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1993) -- N
== Schimmel, Annemarie, Islam in the Indian Subcontinent (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1980) -- N
== Schimmel, Annemarie, Islam: An Introduction (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992) -- N
== Schimmel, Annemarie, Pain and Grace: A Study of Two Mystical Writers of Eighteenth-century Muslim India (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 1976) -- N
== Schopen, Gregory, Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers On the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1997) -- N
== Trautmann, Thomas R., Aryans and British India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997) -- N; UC
== van der Veer, Pieter, Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) -- N; UC
== von Grunebaum, G. E., Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953) -- ACLS
==Wadley, Susan S. Struggling With Destiny in Karimpur, 1925-1984 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994) -- N; UC
== Williams, Joanna Gottfried, The Two-headed Deer: Illustrations of the Ramayana in Orissa (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996) -- N; UC
== Williams, Paul, and Anthony Tribe, Buddhist Thought : A Complete Introduction to the Indian Tradition (London; New York: Routledge, 2000) -- N
== Wolpert, Stanley A. India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999) -- N; UC
== Zelliot, Eleanor. The Experience of Hinduism: Essays on Religion in Maharashtra (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998) -- N