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• Who Am I? (Nan Yar?): The Teachings of Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi (ca. 1982), by Ramana Maharshi, trans. by T. M. P. Mahadevan (PDF at sriramanamaharshi.org)
• Days in an Indian Monastery (La Crescenta, CA: Ananda-Ashrama, c1927), by Sister Devamata (page images at HathiTrust)
• Annotations on the Sacred Writings of the Hindüs: Being an Epitome of Some of The Most Remarkable and Leading Tenets in the Faith of That People (London: Printed for private circulation, 1865), by Edward Sellon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi, by Ramana Maharshi (HTML at arunachala.org)
• The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda (9 volumes, with additional material), by Swami Vivekananda (frame-dependent HTML at ramakrishnavivekananda.info)
• A Discovery of the Sect of the Banians, Containing Their History, Law, Liturgy, Castes, Customs, and Ceremonies (taken from v.3 of Picart's "Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World"), by Henry Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• Self-Enquiry (Vicharasangraham) of Sri Ramana Maharshi, by Ramana Maharshi, trans. by T. M. P. Mahadevan (HTML at arunachala.org)
• A Short History of Religious and Philosophic Thought in India, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML and PDF at swami-krishnananda.org)
• From Yeravda Mandir: Ashram Observances, by Mahatma Gandhi, trans. by Valaji Govindaji Desai (frame-dependent HTML at mkgandhi.org)
• The Maharshi and His Message (extract from "A Search in Secret India", with commentary), by Paul Brunton (PDF at sriramanamaharshi.org)
• Ancient Ideals in Modern Life: Four Lectures Delivered at the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the Theosophical Society, at Benares, December, 1900 (London and Varanasi: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1901), by Annie Besant
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Religionssoziologie (3 volumes in German; Tübingen: J. C. B. Mohr, 1920-1921), by Max Weber
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (Hinduismus und Buddhismus): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III (Das Antike Judentum): multiple formats at archive.org
• Indian Jottings, From Ten Years' Experience in and Around Poona City (London: J. Murray, 1907), by Edward Fenton Elwin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Why I Am Not A Hindu (1993), by Ramendra Nath (HTML at infidels.org)

• Merging with Siva: Hinduism's Contemporary Metaphysics, by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (illustrated HTML with commentary at himalayanacademy.com)
• Pathway to God, by Mahatma Gandhi, ed. by M. S. Deshpande (multiple formats at mkgandhi.org)

• Alberuni's India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India About A.D. 1030, by Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni, ed. by Eduard Sachau
  • Volume I: page images at Columbia
  • Volume II: page images at Columbia

• Cage of Freedom: Tamil Identity and the Ethnic Fetish in Malaysia (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2006), by Andrew C. Willford (page images at HathiTrust)

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• The Grihya Sutras, ed. by Hermann Oldenberg and F. Max Müller
  • Part 1: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Part 2: HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Bhagavadgītā (multiple editions)
• From the Upanishads (Portland, ME: Thomas R. Mosher, ca. 1899), ed. by Charles Johnston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa (18 books, published 1883-1896), trans. by Kisari Mohan Ganguli (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Matsya Puranam (2 volumes reprinted from a collection of Sacred Books of the Hindus; originally published 1916-1917), trans. by A Taluqdar of Oudh, contrib. by Srisa Chandra Vasu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Permanent History of Bharata Varsha (2 volumes in 3, in English with Sanskrit quotations; Trivandrum: Printed for the author at the Bhaskara Press, 1915-1918), by K. Narayana Aiyar
  • Volume 1 and Volume 2 Part 1: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume 2 Part 1 (1959 reprint): PDF files in India
  • Volume 2 Part 2: TIFF page images in India
• The Rig Veda, trans. by Ralph T. H. Griffith
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • HTML at hinduwebsite.com
• The Satapatha Brahmana (5 volumes, 1882-1900), trans. by Julius Eggeling (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Upanishads, trans. by F. Max Müller (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Upanishads (with commentary), trans. by Swami Paramananda (Gutenberg text)
• The Vedic Experience, ed. by Raimon Panikkar (HTML at himalayanacademy.com)
• Vedic Hymns (2 volumes, 1896-1897), trans. by F. Max Müller and Hermann Oldenberg
  • Part I: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
  • Part II: HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com
• The Yoga Upanishads, With the Commentary of Sri Upanishad-Brahma-Yogin (in Sanskrit, with English foreword; Chennai: Published for the Adyar library (Theosophical Society), 1920), ed. by Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, contrib. by Upaniṣadbrahmayogi
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • PDF at lukashevichus.info
• The Tattuva-Kattalei, Siva-Gnâna-Pōtham, and Siva-Pirakâsam: Treatises on Hindû Philosophy, Translated From the Tamil, With Introductions and Notes (New Haven: B. L. Hamlen, 1854), ed. by Henry Richard Hoisington (page images at HathiTrust)

• Om at Home in America: Svami Rama Tirtha Enlightens (2000), ed. by Murari Lal Nagar and Sarla Devi Nagar (PDF at Missouri)

• Self-Realization (Brahmaanubhava): The Advaitic Perspective of Shankara (Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2001), by Vensus A. George (multiple formats at Google)
• Religious Dialogue as Hermeneutics: Bede Griffiths's Advaitic Approach to Religions (Indian philosophical studies III; Washington: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c2001), by Kuruvila Pandikattu (multiple formats at Google)
• Panchadasi of Vidyaranya, With English Translation, Explanatory Notes and Summary of Each Chapter (in Sanskrit and English; Srirangam: Sri Vani Vilas Press, 1912), by Mādhava and M. Srinivasa Rau, ed. by K. A. Krishnaswamy Aiyar
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Philosophy of the Panchadasi, by Swami Krishnananda (HTML and PDF at Divine Life Society)

• The Brahmo Somaj: Four Lectures (London: W. H. Allen and Co, 1870), by Keshub Chunder Sen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brahmoism: or, History of Reformed Hinduism From Its Origin in 1830, Under Rajah Mohun Roy, to the Present Time; With a Particular Account of Babu Keshub Chunder Sen's Connection with the Movement (New York and London: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884), by Ram Chandra Bose (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lectures and Tracts: First and Second Series (London: Strahan and Co., 1870), by Keshub Chunder Sen, ed. by Sophia Dobson Collet (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Study of Caste (originally published 1922; reprinted New Delhi and Chennai: Asian Educational Services, 2003), by P. Lakshmi Narasu (multiple formats at archive.org`)
• Dalit Studies (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, c2016), ed. by Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana, contrib. by Gopal Guru, P. Sanal Mohan, Chinnaiah Jangam, Raj Kumar Hans, Laura Brueck, Sāmbayya Guṇḍimeḍa, D. Shyam Babu, and Surinder S. Jodhka (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brief View of the Caste System of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh, Together With an Examination of the Names and Figures Shown in the Census Report, 1882: Being an Attempt to Classify on a Functional Basis All the Main Castes of the United Provinces, and to Explain Their Gradations of Rank and the Process of Their Formation (Allahabad: North-Western Provinces and Oudh Government Press, 1885), by John Collinson Nesfield
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Study of Caste (Chennai: K. V. Raghavulu, 1922), by P. Lakshmi Narasu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Discovery of the Sect of the Banians, Containing Their History, Law, Liturgy, Castes, Customs, and Ceremonies (taken from v.3 of Picart's "Ceremonies and Religious Customs of the Various Nations of the Known World"), by Henry Lord (page images at HathiTrust)
• The People of India (second edition; Kolkata and Shimla: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker and Co., 1915), by Herbert Hope Risley, ed. by William Crooke
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Dharma: Three Lectures, by Annie Besant (HTML at anandgholap.net)

• Truth is God: Gleanings From the Writings of Mahatma Gandhi Bearing on God, God-Realization and the Godly Way (c1955), by Mahatma Gandhi, ed. by R. K. Prabhu (HTML at mkgandhi.org)
• Om at Home in America: Svami Rama Tirtha Enlightens (2000), ed. by Murari Lal Nagar and Sarla Devi Nagar (PDF at Missouri)

• The Science of Consciousness, by Dr. Jagadishomritunjay (frame-dependent HTML at archive.org)

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