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• 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)

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Primer of Tamil Literature (Chennai: Ananda Press, 1904), by M. S. Purnalingam Pillai
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and page images

• 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)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google

• Avadâna-C̜ataka: Cent Légendes (Bouddhiques), Traduites du Sanskrit (Annales du Musée Guimet book 18, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1891), ed. by Léon Féer
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at Gallica

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• 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
  • main volume: page images at Chicago
  • glossary volume: page images at Chicago

• 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
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• 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)

• Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)
• Tales and Popular Fictions: Their Resemblance, and Transmission From Country to Country (London: Whittaker and Co., 1834), by Thomas Keightley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux, Jest-Books, and Local Legends (revised and enlarged edition; 6 volumes; Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1955-1958), by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• Oral Literature in the Digital Age: Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2013), ed. by Mark Turin, Claire Wheeler, and Eleanor Wilkinson (PDF and HTML with commentary at openbookpublishers.com)

• Traditional Tales of the English and Scottish Peasantry (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1887), by Allan Cunningham, contrib. by Henry Morley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Flowering Thorn: International Ballad Studies (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2003), ed. by Thomas A. McKean (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

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