Anglo-Indian literature
Here are entered collections of literary works in English by British residents of India. Collections of literary works in English by native residents of India are entered under Indic literature (English). Collections of literary works in English written in Britain by authors of East Indian origin or ancestry are entered under English literature -- East Indian authors.
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Educating Seeta: the Anglo-Indian Family Romance and The Poetics of Indirect Rule (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Shuchi Kapila (PDF at Ohio State)
- Under Western Eyes: India from Milton to Macaulay (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c1999), by Balachandra Rajan (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Parama Roy (HTML at UC Press)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Indic literature- Harvard Oriental Series (partial serial archives)
- Decentering Rushdie: Cosmopolitanism and the Indian Novel in English (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), by Pranav Jani (PDF at Ohio State)
- Many Ramayanas: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by Paula Richman (HTML at UC Press)
- Bazyaft (partial serial archives)
- Oriental College Magazine (partial serial archives)
- The Bengali Ramayanas: Being Lectures Delivered to the Calcutta University in 1916, as Ramtanu Lahiri Research Fellow in the History of Bengali Language and Literature (Kolkata: University of Calcutta, 1920), by Dineshchandra Sen
- Grounds for Play: The Nautanki Theatre of North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Kathryn Hansen (HTML at UC Press)
- Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Parama Roy (HTML at UC Press)
- The Mirror of Composition: A Treatise on Poetical Criticism (Kolkata: C. B. Lewis, Baptist Mission Press, 1875), by Viśvanātha Kavirāja, trans. by James Robert Ballantyne and Pramada Dasa Mitra
- A Primer of Tamil Literature (Chennai: Ananda Press, 1904), by M. S. Purnalingam Pillai
- The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, c1982), by Brenda E. F. Beck (multiple formats at ACLS Humanities E-Book)
- Nets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Frances W. Pritchett (HTML at UC Press)
- Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Dean Shulman (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Psalms of the Sisters (London: Pali Text Society, 1909), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- A Buddhist Manual of Psychological Ethics of the Fourth Century B.C.: Being a Translation, Now Made for the First Time from the Original Pali, of the First Book in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, Entitled, Dhamma-Sangani (Compendium of States or Phenomena) with Introductory Essay and Notes (London: Royal Asiatic society, 1900), contrib. by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hindu Literature: Comprising The Book of Good Counsels; Nala and Damayanti; The Ramayana; and Sakoontala; With Critical and Biographical Sketches (revised eition; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, 1900), ed. by Epiphanius Wilson, trans. by Edwin Arnold, Ralph T. H. Griffith, and Monier Monier-Williams, contrib. by Vālmīki, Kālidāsa, and Toru Dutt (Gutenberg text)
- Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, Cantos I-VIII: Edited With the Commentary of Mallina'tha, a Literal English Translation, Notes and Introduction (second edition, in Sanskrit and English; Mumbai: Standard Pub. Co., 1917), by Kālidāsa, ed. by M. R. Kale, contrib. by Mallinātha
- Hymns to the Goddess, ed. by John George Woodroffe (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Indian Idylls, from the Sanskrit of the Mahabharata (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1907), trans. by Edwin Arnold (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Broken Ties and Other Stories (c1925), by Rabindranath Tagore (text at Gutenberg Australia)
- Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold (HTML at UC Press)
- Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), by Gloria Goodwin Raheja and Ann Grodzins Gold (HTML at UC Press)
- Indian Ghost Stories (second edition; Allahabad: A. H. Wheeler and Co., 1917), by S. Mukerji (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan (second edition; London: K. Paul, Trench and co., 1885), by Toru Dutt, contrib. by Edmund Gosse
- Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry Into the Analysis and Theory of Mind in Pali Literature (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914), by Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids (page images at HathiTrust)
- Harvard Oriental Series (partial serial archives)
- The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
- Avadâna-C̜ataka: Cent Légendes (Bouddhiques), Traduites du Sanskrit (Annales du Musée Guimet book 18, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1891), ed. by Léon Féer
- Kalidasa's Kumarasambhava, Cantos I-VIII: Edited With the Commentary of Mallina'tha, a Literal English Translation, Notes and Introduction (second edition, in Sanskrit and English; Mumbai: Standard Pub. Co., 1917), by Kālidāsa, ed. by M. R. Kale, contrib. by Mallinātha
- Bharavi's Poem Kiratarjuniya: or, Arjuna's Combat with the Kirata (Harvard Oriental Series v15, primarily in German; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University, 1912), by Bhāravi, ed. by Carl Cappeller (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Adventures of the Gooroo Paramartan (Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1920), ed. by Costantino Giuseppe Beschi and Charles Clinch Bubb, trans. by B. G. Babington (page images at HathiTrust)
- Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2002), ed. by Velcheru Narayana Rao and David Dean Shulman (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- Graded Readings in Modern Literary Telugu (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin, 1967), by G. N. Reddy and Dan M. Matson
- She-Rab Dong-Bu, by Nagarjuna, trans. by W. L. Campbell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Annual of Urdu Studies (partial serial archives)
- The First Book of the Hadiqatu' l-Haqiqat; or, The Enclosed Garden of the Truth, of the Hakim Abu' l-Majd Majdud Sana'i of Ghazna, by Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sana'i al-Ghaznavi, trans. by John Stephenson (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Sadi's Scroll of Wisdom (from the Wisdom of the East series; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1906), by Sa'di, contrib. by Arthur N. Wollaston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Secret Rose Garden of Sa'd Ud Din Mahmud Shabistari: Rendered From the Persian With an Introduction, by Mahmud Shabistari, ed. by Florence Lederer (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1921), by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Tarjumán Al-Ashwáq: A Collection of Mystical Odes (English portions only; c1911), by Ibn al-'Arabi, ed. by Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Bird Parliament, by Farid al-Din Attar, trans. by Edward FitzGerald (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- The Divan, Written in the Fourteenth Century (2 volumes; Kolkata: Government of India Printing Office, 1891), by Hafiz, ed. by H. Wilberforce Clarke
- The Mesnevi, and the Acts of the Adepts (1881 book of translated selections from these works), by Maulana Jalal al-Din Rumi and Shams al-Din Ahmad Aflaki, trans. by James W. Redhouse (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Poems from the Divan of Hafiz (London: Heinemann, 1897), by Hafiz, trans. by Gertrude Lowthian Bell (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Literature, the Humanities, and Humanity (Geneseo, NY: Open SUNY Textbooks, 2013), by Theodore L. Steinberg (multiple formats with commentary at milneopentextbooks.org)
- Yale Studies in English (partial serial archives)
- At the Sign of the Hobby Horse (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1910), by Elizabeth Bisland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Book for a Corner: or, Selections in Prose and Verse From Authors the Best Suited to That Mode of Enjoyment; With Comments on Each, and a General Introduction (New York: Derby and Jackson, 1857), ed. by Leigh Hunt (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century (1891), ed. by Henry Morley (Gutenberg text)
- Essays in Literature and History (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1906), by James Anthony Froude, contrib. by Hilaire Belloc (Gutenberg text)
- Et Cetera: A Collector's Scrap-Book (Chicago: P. Covici, 1924), ed. by Vincent Starrett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Heart Throbs, in Prose and Verse, Dear to the American People (2 volumes; New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1905-1911), ed. by Joe Mitchell Chapple
- The Prose and Poetry of Europe and America, ed. by George Pope Morris and Nathaniel Parker Willis (page images at MOA)
- This England: An Anthology From Her Writers (London et al.: Oxford University Press, 1915), ed. by Edward Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English Books (10 volumes; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805-1809), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- Half-Hours With the Best Authors, Including Biographical and Critical Notices (revised edition, 4 volumes; London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1866), ed. by Charles Knight, illust. by William Harvey
- Restituta: or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English Literature, Revived (4 volumes; London: Printed by T. Bensley for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1814-1816), by Egerton Brydges (page images at HathiTrust)
- World's Renowned Authors, and Their Grand Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose (Kansas City, MO: Topeka Book Co., 1902), by Henry Davenport Northrop (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Land of My Fathers: A Welsh Gift Book (published on behalf of the National Fund for Welsh Troops; London et al.: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915), ed. by William Lewis Jones
- The Saga Library: Done into English Out of the Icelandic (6 volumes; London: B. Quaritch, 1891-1905), ed. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson
- Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
- all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only
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