Recommended reading
On the study or interpretation of India
Barrier, N. Gerald. India and America: American Publishing on India, 1930—1985. New Delhi: American Institute of Indian Studies, 1986.
Brown, W.
N. The United States and India and Pakistan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.Brown, W. Norman. India and Indology: Selected Articles. ed. Rosane Rocher. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1978.
Halbfass, W. India and Europe, an Essay in Understanding. Albany: SUNY Press, 1988.
Inden, Ron. Imagining India. Oxford and Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1990.
Sachau, E. C. Alberuni’s India,: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws, and Astrology of India about AD 1030. Two volumes. London: Trubner & Co., 1888.
Welbon, G. The Buddhist Nirvana and its Western Interpreters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968.
For a general history or overview of South Asia
Basham, A. L. The Wonder that was India. New York: Grove Press, 1959.
Basham, A. L. ed. A Cultural History of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Bhattacharyya, H. ed. The Cultural History of India. Four volumes. Calcutta: Ramakrishna Mission, 1953-56.
Elder, J. W. ed. Lectures in Indian Civilization. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing Co., 1970.
Keay, John. India,: A History. New York: Harper Collins, 2002.
Schwartzberg, J. E. ed. Historical Atlas of India. Second edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Thapar, Romila. A History of India. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966.
Wolpert, J. Stanley. A New History of India. Sixth edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
General introductions to Indian religion
Basham, A. L. The Origins and Development of Classical Hinduism. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Coward, H. and Goa, W. Mantra. Chambersburg, PA: Anima Books, 1991.
Eck, Diane. Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India. Third edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
Embree, A. ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Volume one. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.
Flood, G. An Introduction to Hinduism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Kinsley, David. Hinduism: A Cultural Perspective. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982.
Klostermaier, K. A Survey of Hinduism. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
Knipe, David. Hinduism: Experiments with the Sacred. San Fransisco: Harper, 1991. Koller, John. The Indian Way. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982.
Oxtoby, W. ed. World Religions: Eastern Traditions. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.