BIBLIOGRAPHY OF INDIA HISTORY UP TO 1750 (Compiled by Hermann Kulke) The bibliography is an extended companion bibliography of H. Kulke’s Geschichte Indiens bis 1750 (Oldenbourg Grundriss der Geschichte, Band 34), Munich 2005 and its bibliography. Thanks are due to Tim Schwabedissen who devoted uncounted hours to its preparation. Contents: Abbreviations 4 Bibliography 5 A. SOURCES 5 1. General 5 2. Inscriptions 5 2.1 All-Indian Editions 5 2.2 Inscriptions of Asoka 6 2.3 Regional and Dynastic Inscriptions 6 3. Literary Sources 7 3.1 Literary Sources, particularly Pre-Islamic Chronicles 7 3.2 Greek-Roman Sources 9 3.3 Chinese Sources 9 3.4 Arab-Persian Sources 10 3.5 Early European Reports 11 4. Coins, Seals 13 5. Archeological Excavation Reports 14 1 B. RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS 15 1. Research Facilities, Cultural History, Complementary Subjects 15 1.1 Research Facilities 15 1.1.1 Bibliographies 15 1.1.2. General Reference Books 16 1.1.3 Introductions to Indian Studies, Regional Geography 17 1.2 Complementary Subjects 17 1.2.1 Paleography, Epigraphy 17 1.2.2 Numismatics 18 1.2.3 Historical Geography, Atlases 19 1.2.4 Historiography 20 1.2.5 Division into Ages 24 1.3 Archaeology 25 1.4 Cultural History 26 2. Periods of Indian History 29 2.1 General Surveys, Anthologies, Festschriften 29 2.2 Early India 33 2.2.1 General Studies 33 2.2.2 Prehistory and Indus Civilisation 34 2.2.3 Indo-Aryas and Vedic Age 35 2.2.4 Early State Formation in the Indo-Gangetic Plain 38 2.2.5 Achaemenids and the Invasion of Alexander 41 2.2.6 The Mauryan Empire 41 2.2.7 Age of the Classical Oecumene 42 2.2.7.1 North and East India 42 2.2.7.2 Central and South India 43 2.2.7.3 India‘s Relations with the Hellenistic-Roman World 44 2.2.7.4 The Gupta Age and Harsha 46 2.3 Early Medieval India 47 2.3.1 General Studies 48 2.3.2 Regional Kingdoms of North and East India 49 2.3.3 Regional Kingdoms of Central and South India 49 2.3.4 The “Indianization“ of Southeast Asia 51 2.4 Late Medieval India 52 2.4.1 General Studies 52 2.4.2 The Delhi Sultanate 53 2.4.3 Regional States outside the Delhi Sultanate 55 2.5 Early Modern India 57 2.5.1 The Mogul Empire 57 2 2.5.2 The Maratha Confederacy 59 2.5.3 Other Kingdoms 60 2.5.4 Early European Presence in India 61 3. Various Subjects 63 3.1 General Economic History 63 3.2 Trade, Traffic and Crafts 65 3.3 History of Science and Technology 67 3.4 Social History 69 3.5 Agrarian History 72 3.6 Urban History 74 3.7 Temple Cities, Monasteries and Pilgrimage 77 3.8 History of Political Ideas 81 3.9 History of Indian Law 83 3.10 Premodern State 84 3.10.1 General Studies 85 3.10.2 Asiatic Mode of Production and Indian Feudalism 88 3.10.3 The Segmentary State 88 3.10.4 Other Theories of the Indian State 89 3.11 Indian Ocean Studies 92 3 Abbreviations ABORI Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute AI Ancient India. Bulletin of the Archaeological Survey of India AO Archive Orientálni AOF Altorientalische Forschung BEFEO Bulletin de l’École Française d‘ Extrême-Orient BSOAS Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies CIS Contributions to Indian Sociology CSSH Comparative Studies in Society and History EAZ Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift EI Epigraphia Indica EPW Economic and Political Weekly IAF Internationales Asienforum IC Indian Culture IESHR Indian Economic and Social History Review IHR Indian Historical Review IIJ Indo-Iranian Journal JA Journal Asiatique JAHRS Journal of the Andhra Historical Research Society JAOS Journal of the American Oriental Society JAS Journal of Asian Studies JASB Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal JBBRAS Journal of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society JBORS Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society JESHO Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient JIH Journal of Indian History JNSI Journal of the Numismatic Society of India JRAS Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland MAS Modern Asian Studies NCHI The New Cambridge History of India PIHC Proceedings of the Indian History Congress SAS South Asian Studies SH Studies in History [JNU, Delhi] ZDMG Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft 4 A. SOURCES 1. General BARY, T. de (ed.), Sources of Indian Tradition. New York 1958. Rev. 2. edition by Ainslie T. Embree, New York 1988. RAY, N., A Sourcebook of Indian Civilization, ed. by B.D. Chattopadhyaya / V.R. Mani / R. Chakravarti, New Delhi 2000. 2. Inscriptions 2.1 All-Indian Editions EPIGRAPHIA INDICA: A Collection of Inscriptions Supplementary to the Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum of the Archaeological Survey, translated by several Oriental scholars. Archaeological Survey of India. Vol. Iff. Calcutta/Ootacamund 1892ff. EPIGRAPHIA INDO-MOSLEMICA. 1907/8-1949/50. Calcutta 1908-1954. EPIGRAPHIA INDICA, ARABIAN AND PERSIAN SUPPLEMENT, in continuation of the series Epigraphia Indo-Moslemica, 1951/52ff. Delhi 1956ff. CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, vol. I: E. HULTZSCH, Inscriptions of Asoka. Oxford 1925. Repr. 1969; Vol. II, 1: S. KONOW, KharoshÔhÍ Inscriptions with the Exception of those of AÐoka. London/Calcutta 1929. Repr. 1969; Vol. II, 2: H. LÜDERS, Barhut Inscriptions, ed. by the late H. Lüders, revised and supplemented by E. WALDSCHMIDT and M.A. MEHENDALE. Ootacamund 1963; H. LÜDERS, Mathura Inscriptions. Unpublished Papers, ed. by K.L. JANERT. (Abh. der Ak. der Wiss. Göttingen, Philol.-Hist. Kl., 3. Folge, Nr. 47.) Göttingen 1961; Vol. III: J.F. FLEET, Inscriptions of the Early Gupta Kings and their Successors. 1888. Repr.: CHHABRA B. Ch. / GAI, G.S. New Delhi 1981; Vol. IV: V.V. MIRASHI, Inscriptions of Kalachuri-Chedi Era. 2 vols., Ootacamund 1955; Vol. V: ID., Inscriptions of the VÁkÁtakas. Ootacamund 1963; Vol. VI: ID., Inscriptions of the ÏilÁhÁras. New Delhi 1977; Vol. VII, 1-3: H.V. TRIVEDI, Inscriptions of the ParamÁras, Chandellas, KachhapaghÁtas and Two Minor Dynasties. New Delhi 1978-91. SIRCAR, D.C., Select Inscriptions Bearing on Indian History and Civilization. Vol. I. From the Sixth Century B.C. to the Sixth Century A.D. Calcutta 1965; Vol. II. From the Sixth to the Eighteenth Century A.D. Delhi 1983. 5 2.2 Inscriptions of Asoka ALLCHIN, FR. / NORMAN, K.R., Guide to the Asokan Inscriptions, in: South Asian Studies, 1 (1985), 43-50. ALSDORF, L., AÐokas Separatedikte von Dhauli und JaugaÕa. (Akademie der Wissenschaften der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 1962, Nr. 1.) Wiesbaden 1962. ANDERSEN, P.K., Studies in the Minor Rock Edicts of AÐoka. Vol. I Critical Edition. Freiburg 1990. CARRATELLI G.P. / G. GARBINI, A Bilingual Graeco-Aramaic Edict of AÐoka. The first Greek inscription discovered in Afghanistan. (Serie Orientale Roma. Vol. 29.) Roma 1964. HULTZSCH, E., Inscriptions of Asoka (see HULTZSCH, 2.1). HUMBACH, H., The Aramaic AÐoka Inscriptions from Taxila, in: Journal of Central Asia 2 (1978), 87-99. SARMA, I.K. / J.V. RAO, Early Brahmi Inscription from Sannati. New Delhi 1993. SCHNEIDER, U., Die großen Felsenedikte AÐokas. Kritische Ausgabe, Übersetzung und Analyse der Texte. Wiesbaden 1978. SIRCAR, D.C., Inscriptions of AÐoka. Rev. ed. Delhi 1967. 2.3 Regional and Dynastic Inscriptions AGRAWAL, J., Inscriptions of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Panjab, Kashmir and Adjoining Hilly Tracts. New Delhi 2001. BHANDARKAR, D.R., A List of Inscriptions of Northern India in BrÁhmÍ and Derivative Scripts from about 200 A.C.: Appendices zu EI, vol. 19-23. FILLIOZAT, V., L‘ épigraphie de Vijayanagara du début à 1377. Paris 1973. FUSSMAN, G., Documents épigraphiques kouchans, in: BEFEO 61 (1974), 1-66. HULTZSCH, E. / V. VENKAYYA, South Indian Inscriptions, vol. II: Tamil Inscriptions of RÁjarÁja, RÁjendrachõla, and others in the RÁjarÁjeÐvara Temple at Tanjavur. Madras 1891-1916. MAHALINGAM, T.V., Inscriptions of the Pallavas. Delhi 1988. MAHALINGAM, T.V., Topographical List of Inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala States. 9 vols. New Delhi IHCR 1975-1985. 6 MUKHERJEE, B.N., KharoshÔÍ and KharoshÔi-BrÁhmÍ Inscriptions in West Bengal. Calcutta 1990. MUKHERJI, R., / S.K. MAITY, Corpus of Bengal Inscriptions. Bearing on History and Civilization of Bengal. Calcutta 1967. RAGHUNATH. K., The IkÒvÁkus of Vijayapuri (A Study of the Nagarjunkaonda Inscriptions). Delhi 2001. RAJAGURU, S.N., Inscriptions of Orissa. 6 vols. Bhubaneswar 1958ff. (Vol. II Bhauma Karas; VI Bhanjas, re-edited by S. Tripathy, Calcutta 1986; Delhi 2000). RAMESH, K.V., Inscriptions of the Western Gangas. Delhi 1984. RANGACHARYA, V., A Topographical List of the Inscriptions of the Madras Presidency (Collected up to 1915.). 3 vols. Madras 1919. RICE, L., Epigraphica Carnatica. 5 vols. Mangalore 1902. SASTRI, A.M., Inscriptions of the ÏarabhapurÍyas, PÁÆÕuvaïÐins and SomavaïÐins. 2 vols. Delhi 1995. SHRAVA, S., The Dated KushÁÆa Inscriptions. New Delhi 1993. SIRCAR, D.C., Some Epigraphical Records of the Medieval Period from Eastern India. Delhi 1979. SUBRAHMANYAM, R., Inscriptions of the SÚryavaÞÐi Gajapatis of Orissa. Delhi 1986. SUBRAHMANYAN, T.N., South Indian Temple Inscriptions. 3 vols. Madras 1953- 1957. THYPLYAL, K.K., Inscriptions of the Maukharis, Later Guptas, PuÒpabhÚtis and YaÐovarman of Kanauj. Delhi 1985. VIJAYARAGHAVACHARYA, V., Tirumalai Tirupathi Devasthanam Epigraphical Series. 7 vols. Madras 1931-1938. ZVELEBIL, K., Tamil in 550 A.D. Interpretation of Early Inscriptional Tamil. Prague 1964. 3. Literary Sources 3.1 Literary Sources, particularly Pre-Islamic Chronicles BANERJI, S.C. / A.K. GUPTA, BilhaÆa's VikramÁÉkadeva Carita. Glimpses of the History of the CÁlukyas of KalyÁÆa. Calcutta 1965. BARUA, G.C., Ahom Buranji.