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
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                  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
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                  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
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            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
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