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• The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Leela Prasad (PDF with commentary at Duke)

• The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2020), by Leela Prasad (PDF with commentary at Duke)
• 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.

• Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda (third edition; London: T. Fisher Unwin, c1895), by Zénaïde A. Ragozin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of India as Told by its Own Historians: The Local Muhammadan Dynasties: Gujarát (London: W.H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Sikandar ibn Muhammad, ed. by Edward Clive Bayley, trans. by John Dowson
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Portuguese in India: Being a History of The Rise and Decline of Their Eastern Empire (2 volumes; London: W.H. Allen and Co., 1894), by Frederick Charles Danvers
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Bolume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (12 volumes; London: Printed for Cadell and Davies et al., 1817), by William Robertson, contrib. by Dugald Stewart (multiple formats at Google)
• The Works of Wm. Robertson, D. D. (8 volumes; Oxford: Printed for W. Pickering, and Talboys and Wheeler, 1825), by William Robertson
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 4: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 5: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 6: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 7: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 8: multiple formats at archive.org

• Albuquerque (from the "Rulers of India" series; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by H. Morse Stephens (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Da Asia (new edition of 24 volumes in Portuguese; Lisbon: Regia Officina Typografica, 1778-1788), by João de Barros and Diogo do Couto, contrib. by Manoel Severim de Faria (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan (1887 edition), by H. G. Keene (Gutenberg text)

• The Case for India: The Presidential Address Delivered by Annie Besant at the Thirty-Second Indian National Congress Held at Calcutta, 26th December 1917, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
• Greater India (Chennai: S. Ganesan, 1921), by Rabindranath Tagore
  • page images at Harvard
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Kushan Chronology ("Part I"; no further parts known to be published; extracted from Journal of the Department of Letters, University of Calcutta, 1920), by R. C. Majumdar
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at archive.org

• Brother India (New York: World Youth Congress, ca. 1940), by Rajni Patail, contrib. by Paul Robeson
  • page images at saada.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1998), by Revathi Krishnaswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Authentic Narrative of the Treatment of the English, Who Were Taken Prisoners on the Reduction of Bednore, by Tippoo Saia, From the 28th of April, 1783, the Day of Capitulation, to Their Enlargement on the 25th of April, 1784 (new edition; London: G. Kearsley, 1785), by Henry Oakes, contrib. by John Charles Sheen (multiple formats at Google)
• British Rule in India: A Historical Sketch (London: Smith, Elder and co., 1857), by Harriet Martineau (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cartas Polìticas, Comerciales y Literarias Sobre la India: ó, Intereses de la Inglaterra, Relativos á la Rusia, al Indostan y al Egipto (translated into Spanish; Madrid: En la imprenta de Sancha, 1805), by John Taylor, trans. by Angel Martinez de Godoy (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape of James Scurry, Who was Detained a Prisoner During Ten Years, in the Dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib (London: H. Fisher, 1824), by James Scurry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Colonial Lists/Indian Power: Identity Formation in Nineteenth-Century Telugu-Speaking India (c2002), by Michael Katten (HTML and PDF files at gutenberg-e.org)
• 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)
• The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War, by Winston Churchill (Gutenberg text)
• Journal of a Tour Through Part of the Snowy Range of the Himālā Mountains, and to the Sources of the Rivers Jumna and Ganges (London: Printed for Rodwell and Martin, 1820), by James Baillie Fraser
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at loc.gov
• The Marquess Cornwallis and the Consolidation of British Rule (Oxford: At the Clarendon press, 1890), by W. S. Seton-Karr (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Record of the Expeditions Against the North-West Frontier Tribes, Since the Annexation of the Punjab (London: Whiting and Co., ca. 1884), by W. H. Paget, ed. by A. H. Mason (page images at HathiTrust)

• With Kelly to Chitral, by William George Laurence Beynon (Gutenberg text)

• The Kushan Chronology ("Part I"; no further parts known to be published; extracted from Journal of the Department of Letters, University of Calcutta, 1920), by R. C. Majumdar
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at archive.org

• The Romance of History: India (London: C. A. Pearson, 1899), by Hobart Caunter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Edicts of King Asoka, by Asoka, trans. by Shravasti Dhammika
  • HTML at Access to Insight
  • HTML with commentary at Colorado State

• One Year of Non-Cooperation: From Ahmedabad to Gaya (Koklata: Communist Party of India, 1923), by M. N. Roy and Evelyn Trent
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Indian Historical Quarterly (partial serial archives)
• Journal of Indian History (partial serial archives)
• Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (partial serial archives)

• Letter Containing Extracts From a Journal Kept by Mrs. Inglis During the Siege of Lucknow (pages 12-13 duplicated at start of scan; London: Printed for private circulation only, 1858), by Julia Selina Inglis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• My Recollections of the Sepoy Revolt (1857-58) (London: J. Long, 1911), by Mrs. Elizabeth Muter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Siege of Lucknow: A Diary (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., 1892), by Julia Selina Inglis
  • HTML at Celebration of Women Writers
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis, From its Formation in 1857 to 1907 (Devonport, UK: Swiss and Co., 1909), by 20th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Memorial of the Futtehgurh Mission and Her Martyred Missionaries, by J. Johnston Walsh (page images at MOA)
• A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi, With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857, by Charles John Griffiths, ed. by Henry John Yonge (Gutenberg text)

• "I Accuse!": From the Suppressed Statement of Manabendra Nath Roy on Trial for Treason Before Sessions Court, Cawnpore, India (New York: Published for the Roy Defense Committee of India, 1932), by M. N. Roy (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Afghan Wars, 1839-42 and 1878-80, by Archibald Forbes (Gutenberg text)
• An Appeal Against Faction, in Respect of the Concurrence of the Present and the Late Administrations, to Prevent the House of Commons From Performing its Highest Duties; To Which is Added an Analysis of Count Nesselrode's Despatch of the 20th Oct., 1838 (1843), by David Urquhart (page images at Google)
• Campaign of the Indus: In a Series of Letters From an Officer of the Bombay Division (1840), by T. W. E. Holdsworth, ed. by A. H. Holdsworth
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Defence of Kahun: A Forgotten Episode of the First Afghan War, Being a Narrative Compiled From a Journal Kept During the Siege, and From Original Letters (London: W. H. Allen and Co., 1886), by Charles Reynolds Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian Frontier Policy: An Historical Sketch, by John Adye (Gutenberg text)
• History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis, From its Formation in 1857 to 1907 (Devonport, UK: Swiss and Co., 1909), by 20th Punjab Regiment, Indian Army (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, by Sri Chinmoy (HTML at srichinmoylibrary.com)

• The Life of William Carey, Shoemaker and Missionary, by George Smith
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at CCEL

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