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1 [Recent and forthcoming indological publications]
2 [Old favourites]
3 [Teaching materials]
4 [Indologists' recreations]

1 Some recent and forthcoming indological publications

2003

[Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India UK | US with online excerpts]
James W. Laine
February 2003
[Authority and Meaning in Indian Religions: Hinduism and the Case of Valmiki UK | US]
Julia Leslie
October 2003
[Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions for South Asia UK | US]
Sheldon Pollock (Editor)
May 2003
[The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Blackwell Companions to Religion) UK | US]
Gavin Flood (Editor)
January 2003 / Paper or hardcover.
[The Roots of Ayurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings UK | US]
Dominik Wujastyk / Paperback / 3rd edition Feb 2003.
[Design and Rhetoric in a Sanskrit Court: The Kiratarjuniya of Bharavi]
by Indira Viswanathan Peterson
January 2003 / Hardcover

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2002

[Conjugal Love in India: Ratisastra and Ratiramana: Text, Translation, and Notes UK | US]
Kenneth G. Zysk (Editor)
July 2002. Contrary to what the websites say, the book is in print with [Brill] and easily available.

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2001

[Aldous Huxley Between East and West]
by C. C. Barfoot
December 2001
[Precolonial India in Practice : Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra]
by Cynthia Talbot
September 2001
[A Gandhari Version of "The Rhinoceros Sutra" UK | US]
Richard Salomon, Andrew Glass / Hardcover
May 2001

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2000

[Grow Long, Blessed Night : Poems from Classical India]
Martha Ann Selby (Translator) / Paperback
December 2000
[Invented Identities: the interplay of gender, religion and politics in India UK | US]
Julia Leslie (Editor), Mary McGee (Editor)
October 2000
[Ramopakhyana - the Story of Rama in the Mahabharata]
Peter Scharf
December 2000
[Epic Threads]
J.L. Brockington, Mary Brockington (Editor), Greg Bailey (Editor)
October 2000
[A History of Sanskrit Grammatical Literature in Tibet 2]
Pieter Cornelis Verhagen
September 2000
[Classical Indian Philosophy : An Introductory Text]
Jitendra N. Mohanty / Paperback
[The Indo Aryan Migration Debate : In Quest of the Origins of Vedic Culture]
Edwin Bryant / Hardcover
[Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India (The New Cambridge History of India Iii-5)]
David Arnold / Hardcover
[Trade in Early India (Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History)]
Ranabir Chakravarti (Editor) / Hardcover
[Madness, Cannabis and Colonialism : The 'Native Only' Lunatic Asylums of British India, 1857-1900]
James H. Mills / Hardcover
[The Oriental Annual or Scenes in India - 1836]
Caunter Hobert, Daniell William / Hardcover
[Precolonial India in Practice : Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra]
Cynthia Talbot / Hardcover
[Religious Processes : The Puranas and the Making of a Regional Tradition in South Asia UK | US]
Kunal Chakrabarti / Hardback
[Costumes and Textiles of Royal India]
Ritu Kumar / Hardcover
[Donors, Devotees, and the Daughters of God : Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu]
Leslie C. Orr
[Faces of the Feminine in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India]
Mandakranta Bose (Editor)
[India : A History]
John Keay / Hardcover
[Invoking the Past : The Uses of History in South Asia]
Daud Ali (Editor) / Hardcover
[Combined Methods in Indology and Other Essays : A Collection of the Indological Writings of D.D. Kosambi]
D.D. Kosambi / Hardcover
[Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism]
Todd Thornton Lewis (Editor), Subarna Man Tuladhar (Editor) / Paperback
[Against Purity: Rethinking Identity with Indian and Western Feminisms]
by Irene Gedalof / Paperback
[Buddha : His Life and Teaching]
Walter Henry Nelson / Paperback
[Narratives and the Making of History]
Romila Thapar / Paperback
[Cultural Pasts : Essays in Early Indian History]
Romila Thapar / Hardcover
[India - An Archaeological History : Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations]
Dilip K. Chakrabarti / Hardcover
[The poems of Ancient Tamil]
George L. Hart / Paperback
[Classical Indian Philosophy : An Introductory Text]
Jitendra N. Mohanty / Paperback
[Classical Indian Philosophy]
J.N. Mohanty / Hardcover
[A Study of Time in Indian Philosophy]
Anindita Niyogi Balslev
[A Yoga of Indian Classical Dance: The Yogini's Mirror]
Roxanne Kamayani Gupta, Kamayani Roxanne Gupta / Paperback
[Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India]
Michael Willis / Hardcover
[The Perfection of Wisdom UK | US]
R. C. Jamieson / Paperback
[A Study of Nagarjuna's Twenty Verses on the Great Vehicle (Mahayanavimsika) and His Verses on the Heart of Dependent Origination UK | US]
R. C. Jamieson / Hardcover
[India : The Seductive and Seduced 'Other' of German Orientalism (Contributions in Comparative Colonial Studies, No. 39)]
Kamakshi P. Murti / Hardcover
[Indo-Aryan Languages]
George Cardona, Dhanesh Jain / Hardcover / Published 2000

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1999

[The Glorious Deeds of Purna]
Joel Tatelman (tr.) / Hardback / 1999
[The Dharmasutras]
Patrick Olivelle / Papercover / 1999
[Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India]
Wendy Doniger / Papercover / 1999
[Indus Age: the beginnings]
Gregory L. Possehl / Hardcover / in press (1999)
[Handbook of the Stein Collections in the UK (Occasional Paper No 129)]
Helen Wang / Paperback / 1999
[Love in a Dead Language : A Romance]
Lee Siegel / Hardcover / Published 1999
[Ayurveda]
Ashok Majumdar / Hardcover / Published 1999
[An Historical Disquisition Concerning the Knowledge Which the Ancients Had of India]
William Robertson / Hardback / 1999
[The Printed Bengali Character]
Fiona G.E. Ross / Hardcover / Published 1999
[Soma: Divine Hallucinogenic]
David Spess / Hardcover / Published 1999
[The Integrity of the Yoga Darsana : A Reconsideration of the Classical Yoga (Suny Series in Religious Studies)]
Ian Whicher / Hardcover / Published 1999
[A history of India]
Burton Stein / Paperback
[Srngaraprakasa of Bhoja (Harvard Oriental Series, Vol 53)]
Venkatarama Raghavan (Editor) / Hardcover / Published 1999
[Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics : Draupadi Among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits]
Hiltebeitel, Alf Hiltebeitel / Paperback / Published 1999
[A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library Part II: Epics and Puranas]
John Brockington, Jonathan Katz / Unknown Binding / Published 1999
[A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit and Other Indian Manuscripts of the Chandra Shum Shere Collection in the Bodleian Library Part III: Stotras]
Parameswara Aithal, Jonathan Katz / Unknown Binding / Published 1999
[Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara]
Richard Salomon / Hardcover / Published 1999
[Ancient Buddhist Scrolls from Gandhara]
Richard Salomon / Paperback / Published 1999
[Ramayana of Valmiki, vol. VI]
Robert P Goldman.

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1998

[Deciphering the Indus Script]
Asko Parpola.
[Algebra in Ancient and Modern Times]
V.S. Varadarajan / Papercover / 1998
[Ancient Cities of the Indus Valley Civilization]
Jonathan Mark Kenoyer / Paperback / 1998
[Indian Epigraphy : A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages (South Asia Research)]
Richard Salomon / Hardcover / Published 1998
[The Sanskrit Epics (Handbuch Der Orientalistik. Zweite Abteilung. Indien, 12 Bd)]
J. L. Brockington / Hardcover / Published 1998.
[Indian Semantic Analysis : The Method of Nirvacanam (University of Cambridge Oriental Publications , No 55)]
Eivind Georg Kahrs / Hardcover / Published 1998
[The Roots of Ayurveda: selections from Sanskrit medical writings]
Dominik Wujastyk / Paperback / Published 1998
[When the Body Becomes All Eyes : Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art]
Phillip B. Zarrilli / Hardcover / Published 1998
[The Sauptikaparvan of the Mahabharata]
W. J. Johnson / Paperback / Published 1998
[The Lives of the Jain Elders]
Hemacandra, tr. R. Fynes / Paperback / Published 1998.
[Representing the Body : Gender Issues in Indian Art]
Vidya Dehejia / Hardback / 1998.

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1997

[How Buddhism Began : The Conditioned Genesis of the Early Teachings (Jordan Lectures in Comparative Religion, No 17)]
Richard F. Gombrich / Hardcover / Published 1997
[Traditional Jewelry of India]
Oppi Untracht / Hardcover (12 May, 1997)

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2 Old favourites

[A Cultural History of India]
A. L. Basham / Hardback / 1984
[The Wonder that was India]
A. L. Basham / Paperback / 1997 reprint
[Indian Medicine]
Julius Jolly / Hardback / 1994 (reprint)
[Ancient Indian Medicine]
P. Kutumbiah / Paperback / Published 1999 (reprint)
[The Classical Law of India (Law in India)]
Robert Lingat, J. Duncan M. Derret / Paperback / Published 1998 (reprint).
[Vedic India]
Louis Renou / Paperback / 1993 (reprint)
[On being Sanskritic]
Richard F. Gombrich. (1977 inaugural lecture as Boden professor at Oxford.)