India -- Social conditions
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- India -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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- Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions
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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`)- 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
- The Other Empire: Metropolis, India and Progress in the Colonial Imagination (Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, c2003), by John Marriott (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Mother India (c1927), by Katherine Mayo (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
- Between the Twilights: Being Studies of Indian Women by One of Themselves (London and New York: Harper and Bros, 1908), by Cornelia Sorabji (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Poverty and Un-British Rule in India (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co., 1901), by Dadabhai Naoroji (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Study of Caste (Chennai: K. V. Raghavulu, 1922), by P. Lakshmi Narasu (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood (Boston and Chicago: United Society Christian Endeavor, c1900), by Mrs. Marcus B. Fuller, contrib. by Ramabai Sarasvati (page images at HathiTrust)
- Analysis of the 1931 Census of India, by T. C. Hodson (HTML at Athelstane)
- Essays and Discourses (Chennai: G. A. Natesan and Co., ca. 1918), by Prafulla Chandra Ray (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)
- "Yes, Lady Saheb": A Woman's Adventurings with Mysterious India (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
- The Basis for Artistic and Industrial Revival in India (Adyar, Chennai, India: The Theosophist Office, 1912), by E. B. Havell
- Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982), by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf (HTML at UC Press)
- Mother Teresa and India (English and German editions, 1983 and 1986), by B. Srinivasa Murthy (PDF files with commentary at bsmurthy.com)
- British Folks and British India Fifty Years Ago: Joseph Pease and His Contemporaries (ca. 1891), by John Hyslop Bell (page images at HathiTrust; some pages damaged or missing)
- Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2017), by Nikhil Anand (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
- Social Scientist (partial serial archives)
- Bazaar India: Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), by Anand A. Yang (HTML at UC Press)
- Municipal Calcutta: Its Institutions in Their Origin and Growth (Kolkata: Corporation of Calcutta, 1916), by S. W. Goode
- Feeding the City: Work and Food Culture of the Mumbai Dabbawalas (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2013), by Sara Roncaglia
- Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Lindsey Harlan (HTML at UC Press)
- Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India: The Shaping of a Public Culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Douglas E. Haynes (HTML at UC Press)
- White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender, and Body in North India (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), by Sarah Lamb (HTML at UC Press)
- Between the Twilights: Being Studies of Indian Women by One of Themselves (London and New York: Harper and Bros, 1908), by Cornelia Sorabji (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood (Boston and Chicago: United Society Christian Endeavor, c1900), by Mrs. Marcus B. Fuller, contrib. by Ramabai Sarasvati (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mother India (c1927), by Katherine Mayo (illustrated HTML at Gutenberg Australia)
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Filed under: India- India: A Country Study (fifth edition, 1996), ed. by James Heitzman and Robert L. Worden (multiple formats at loc.gov)
- Change and the Persistence of Tradition in India: Five Lectures (c1971), ed. by Richard L. Park (HTML at Project Muse)
- The British Empire in the East (London: J. Murray, 1840), by Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Björnstjerna, trans. by Hannibal Evans Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
- Indian Speeches (1907-1909), by John Morley (Gutenberg text)
- Whose Promised Lands? A Political Atlas of the Middle East and India (with "The New Era of Power Politics" by Halford Hoskins; Headline Series #57; New York: Foreign Policy Association, 1946), by Samuel Van Valkenburg, contrib. by Halford Lancaster Hoskins (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Mémoire Historique et Politique sur la Louisiane (in French; Paris: Lepetit Jeune, 1802), by Charles Gravier Vergennes, contrib. by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
- Yukti-Kalpataru (in Hindi, with English foreword; Kolkata: Abinash Chandra Mandal, ca. 1917), by King of Malwa Bhojarāja, ed. by Iśvaracandra Śāstrī, contrib. by Narendra Nath Law
- Epigraphia Indica (partial serial archives)
- The Indian Buddhist Iconography, Mainly Based on the Sādhanamālā and Other Cognate Tāntric Texts of Rituals (London et al.: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924), by Benoytosh Bhattacharyya
- Studies on the Ice Age in India and Associated Human Cultures (Carnegie Institution of Washington publication #493; 1939), by Helmut De Terra and T. T. Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Cyclopedia of India: Biographical, Historical, Administrative, Commercial (3 volumes; Kolkata: Cyclopedia Pub. Co., 1907-1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Mother India's Lighthouse: India's Spiritual Leaders, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)
- The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker and Missionary, by George Smith
- Letters on India (1814), by Maria Callcott
- Indian Traffic: Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India, by Parama Roy (HTML at UC Press)
- The British Empire in the East (London: J. Murray, 1840), by Magnus Fredrik Ferdinand Björnstjerna, trans. by Hannibal Evans Lloyd (page images at HathiTrust)
- V Indīi͡u: Voenno-Statisticheskīĭ I Strategicheskīĭ Ocherk: Proekt Budushchago Pokhoda (in Russian; St. Petersburg: A.A. Porokhovshchikova, 1898), by V. T. Lebedev
- A Memoir of India and Avghanistaun, With Observations on the Present Exciting and Critical State and Future Prospects of Those Countries (Philadelphia: J. Dobson; et al., 1842), by Josiah Harlan
- Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute, by Theophilus F. Rodenbough (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
- The Story of The Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (cheap edition; London et al.: T. Nelson and Sons, 1916), by Winston Churchill
- The Magic Mountains: Hill Stations and the British Raj (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1996), by Dane Keith Kennedy (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
- At Home in India: or, Tâza-be-Tâza (London: Drane, ca. 1903), by Margaretta Catherine Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
- Camp and Cantonment: A Journal of Life in India in 1857-1859, With Some Account of the Way Thither; To Which is Added, A Short Narrative of the Pursuit of the Rebels in Central India (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1865), by Georgiana Theodosia Fitzmoor-Halsey Paget and Leopold Grimston Paget (page images at Google)
- Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal Kept in India, Egypt, and Syria (second edition, 2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1857), by Amelia Fitz Clarence Cary Falkland (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Diary of a Civilian's Wife in India, 1877-1882 (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1884), by E. Augusta King
- The Englishwoman in India: Containing Information for the Use of Ladies Proceeding to, or Residing in, the East Indies, on the Subjects of Their Outfit, Furniture, Housekeeping, the Rearing of Children, Duties and Wages of Servants, Management of the Stables, and Arrangements for Travelling; To Which are Added Receipts for Indian Cookery (London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1864), by A Lady Resident (multiple formats at Google)
- From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan, by H. P. Blavatsky
- A Geographical Account of Countries Round the Bay of Bengal, 1669 to 1679 (Hakluyt Society works, second series, #12; 1905), by Thomas Bowrey, ed. by Richard Carnac Temple (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Girl's Winter in India (New York: Anson D. F. Randolph and Co., c1892), by Mary Thorn Carpenter (page images at HathiTrust)
- In India: Sketches of Indian Life and Travel From Letters and Journals (London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1876), by Mrs. Murray Mitchell
- In the Himalayas and on the Indian Plains (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- India Illustrated: Being a Collection of Pictures of the Cities of Bombay, Calcutta and Madras, Together With a Selection of the Most Interesting Buildings and Scenes Throughout India (pages disassembled; originally Bombay: Bennett, Coleman and Co., ca. 1905) (at digital.lib.uh.edu)
- Journal of a Residence in India (Edinburgh: Printed by G. Ramsay and Co. for A. Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812), by Maria Callcott (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
- Journal of a Residence in India (second edition; Edinburgh: A. Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1813), by Maria Callcott (multiple formats at Google)
- Letters From India (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley and Son, 1872), by Emily Eden, ed. by Eleanor Eden, contrib. by Frances Eden (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
- Letters from India, Describing a Journey in the British Dominions of India, Tibet, Lahore, and Cashmere During the years 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831 (2 volumes; London: E. Churton, 1834), by Victor Jacquemont (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life and Travel in India: Being Recollections of A Journey Before the Days of Railroads (Philadelphia: Porter and Coates; London: Trubner and Co., c1884), by Anna Harriette Leonowens (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life and Travel in India: Being Recollections of A Journey Before the Days of Railroads (illustrated; Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates and Co., 1897), by Anna Harriette Leonowens
- A Month in a Dandi: A Woman's Wanderings in Northern India (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co.; Hull: W. Andrews and Co., ca. 1891), by Christina Sinclair Bremner (page images at HathiTrust)
- My Year in an Indian Fort (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1877), by Mrs. Guthrie (both volumes: page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of a Journey Overland From England, by the Continent of Europe, Egypt, and the Red Sea, to India: Including a Residence There, and Voyage Home, in the Years 1825, 26, 27, and 28 (2 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830), by Anne Elwood
- Narrative of a Journey Through the Upper Provinces of India, From Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825 (With Notes Upon Ceylon), An Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters Written in India (2 volumes; Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Carey, 1828), by Reginald Heber, ed. by Amelia Shipley Heber (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Original Letters From India of Mrs. Eliza Fay (new edition, with introduction and notes; Kolkata: Thacker, Spink and Co., 1908), by Eliza Fay, ed. by Walter K. Firminger
- Our Tour in Southern India (London: F. V. White and Co., 1883), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley
- Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections From My Journal, 1884-1888 (2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1889), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava (page images at HathiTrust)
- Our Viceregal Life in India: Selections From My Journal, 1884-1888 (fourth thousand, 2 volumes; London: J. Murray, 1890), by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava
- Our Visit to Hindostán, Kashmir, and Ladakh (London: Wm. H. Allen and Co., 1879), by Harriet Georgiana Maria Manners-Sutton Murray-Aynsley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- A Ride to India Across Persia and Baluchistan, by Harry De Windt (Gutenberg text)
- Roving East and Roving West, by E. V. Lucas (Gutenberg text)
- Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan, With Sketches of Anglo-Indian Society (3 volumes; London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1835), by Emma Roberts (page images at HathiTrust)
- Scenes in Southern India (New York: American Tract Society, ca. 1886), by Mrs. Murray Mitchell (page images at HathiTrust)
- Six Months in India (2 volumes; London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1868), by Mary Carpenter
- Six Years in India: or, Sketches of India and its People. As Seen by a Lady Missionary (New York: Carlton and Porter, c1866), by Mrs. E. J. Humphrey (page images at HathiTrust)
- Sketches in India (London: John Letts, 1824), by William Huggins (page images at Google)
- Sporting Sketches During a Short Stay in Hindustane (critical edition of an 1814 manuscript), by Edward Ellerker Williams and Tilar J. Mazzeo (HTML at Romantic Circles)
- Sunny Memories of an Indian Winter (London: Walter Scott, 1898), by Sara H. Dunn (page images at Google)
- Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel Among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904), by William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman (page images at Google; US access only)
- Topee and Turban: or, Here and There in India (London and New York: J. Lane, 1921), by H. A. Newell
- Travels and Adventures of an Officer's Wife in India, China, and New Zealand (2 volumes; London: Hurst and Blackett, 1864), by Mrs. Elizabeth Muter (page images at HathiTrust)
- "Up the Country": Letters Written to Her Sister From the Upper Provinces of India (2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1866), by Emily Eden (page images at HathiTrust)
- Voyages and Travels in India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the Years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806 (3 volumes; London: Printed for W. Miller, 1809), by George Annesley Mountnorris (page images with commentary at wdl.org)
- Wanderings of a Pilgrim, in Search of the Picturesque, During Four-and-Twenty Years in the East; With Revelations of Life in the Zenana (2 volumes; London: P. Richardson, 1850), by Fanny Parkes Parlby
- Wayside India (Waterford, UK: Downey and Co., 1907), by Maud Power (page images at Google; US access only)
- Western India In 1838 (2 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1839), by Marianne Young
- Winter India (New York: The Century Co., 1903), by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Jesting Pilate: An Intellectual Holiday (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1926), by Aldous Huxley (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Arabia, Egypt, India: A Narrative of Travel (London and Belfast: W. Mullan and son, 1879), by Isabel Burton
- Behind the Bungalow, by Edward Hamilton Aitken, illust. by F. C. Macrae (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Cathay and the Way Thither, ed. by Henry Yule (page images at Toyo Bunko Archive)
- Description of a View of the Himalaya Mountains, With the British Stations of Kussowlee, Soobathoo, and Simla, and a Vast Extent of the Plains of Hindostan, Now Exhibiting at the Panorama, Leicester Square (London: Printed by G. Nichols, 1847), by Robert Burford, contrib. by Henry Courtney Selous and George J. White (multiple formats at archive.org)
- From the Hebrides to the Himalayas: A Sketch of Eighteen Months' Wanderings in Western Isles and Eastern Highlands (2 volumes; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1876), by C. F. Gordon Cumming
- "Gup": Sketches of Anglo-Indian Life and Character (London: R. Bentley, 1868), by Florence Marryat (page images at HathiTrust)
- How I Shot My Bears: or, Two Years' Tent Life in Kullu and Lahoul (London: S. Low, Marston and Co., 1893), by Mrs. Richard Humphry Tyacke
- The Journal of Mrs. Fenton: A Narrative of Her Life in India, the Isle of France (Mauritius) and Tasmania During the Years 1826-1830 (London: Edward Arnold, 1901), by Elizabeth Sinclair Fenton (page images at Google; US access only)
- Jungle Life in India: or the Journeys and Journals of an Indian Geologist (London: T. De La Rue and Co., 1880), by V. Ball (page images at HathiTrust)
- Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zenáná: or, Six Years in India (second edition, 2 volumes; London: R. Bentley, 1854), by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie
- The Lusiad: or, The Discovery of India: An Epic Poem (London: G. Bell, 1877), by Luís de Camões, ed. by Edward Richmond Hodges, trans. by William Julius Mickle (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Mainly East (in Prose, Perhaps Prosey) (London: Hutchinson and Co., ca. 1922), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie
- My Visit to the Goldfields in South-East Wynaad (London: Chapman and Hall, 1881), by Samuel Jennings
- Notes of a Tour in India and Ceylon During the Winter of 1888-89 (London: Women's printing society, 1889), by Helen C. Ford (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Old World Through Old Eyes: Three Years in Oriental Lands (New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1917), by Mary S. Ware
- Olivia in India (written as "O. Douglas"), by Anna Buchan (Gutenberg text)
- Six Years in India: Delhi, the City of the Great Mogul; With an Account of the Various Tribes in Hindostan: Hindoos, Sikhs, Affghans, Etc. (new edition of "The Mission, the Camp, and the Zenana"; London: R. Bentley, 1857), by Mrs. Colin Mackenzie
- A Sportswoman in India: Personal Adventures and Experiences of Travel in Known and Unknown India (London: Hutchinson and Co.; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by Isabel Savory (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Wonderland of India (New York: Missionary Education Movement of United States and Canada, c1922), by Helen M. Rockey and Harold B. Hunting
- "Yes, Lady Saheb": A Woman's Adventurings with Mysterious India (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1925), by Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson
- Anabasis of Alexander; Indica (1893 translation), by Arrian, trans. by Edward James Chinnock (HTML at websfor.org)
- Within the Purdah; Also, In the Zenana Homes of Indian Princes, and Heroes and Heroines of Zion: Being the Personal Observations of a Medical Missionary in India (New York: Eaton and Mains; Cincinnati: Curts and Jennings, c1898), by Saleni Armstrong-Hopkins (page images at Drexel)
- Descripción de los Reinos, Costas, Puertos e Islas que hay Desde el Cabo de Buena Esperanza Hasta los Leyquios; Libro que Trata del Descubrimiento y Principio del Estrecho que se Llama de Magallanes; y Descrición de Parte del Japón (in Spanish; first part variously attributed to Barbosa or Magalhaes (Magellan); Madrid: Estab. Tip. de Torrent y Compañía, 1920), ed. by Antonio Blázquez y Delgado Aguilera, contrib. by Duarte Barbosa, Fernão de Magalhães, and Ginés de Mafra (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Glimpse of India: Being a Collection of Extracts from the Letters of Dr. Clara A. Swain (New York: James Pott and Company, 1909), by Clara A. Swain (page images at Drexel)
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