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Pre-Mauryan Age

 

Basham, Arthur Llewllyn. The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. Reprint, London: Picador, 2004.
 
Bechert, Heinz, ed. The Dating of the Historical Buddha = Die Datierung Des Historischen Buddha. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1991.
 
Cousins, L. S. “The Dating of the Historical Buddha: A Review Article.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 6, no. 1 (April 1996): 57–63. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/25183119; not open access]
 

Mauryan Age

 

Shimada, Akira. Early Buddhist Architecture in Context: The Great Stūpa at Amarāvatī (ca. 300 BCE–300 CE). Brill's Indological Library, Vol. 43. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
 
Thapar, Romila. “The Later Mauryas.” In Aśoka and the Decline of the Mauryas, 229–247. Oxford University Press, 2012.

 

Sunga and Indo-Greek

 

Bhandare, Shailendra. "Numismatics and History: The Maurya-Gupta Interlude in the Gangetic Plain." In Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE, edited by Patrick Olivelle, 67–112. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2011. [10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305326.003.0004]

Ollett, Andrew. Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India. South Asia Across the Disciplines. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. [https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.37

 

Satavahana-Saka-Kushan Age 

 

Cribb, Joe. “Numismatic evidence and the date of Kaniṣka I.” In Problems of Chronology in Gandhāran Art: Proceedings of the First International Workshop of the Gandhāra Connections Project, University of Oxfort, 23rd–24th March, 2017, edited by Wannaporn Rienjang and Peter Stewart, 7–34. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018.

Errington, Elizabeth, Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, and Joe Cribb. From Persepolis to the Punjab: Exploring Ancient Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. London: British Museum Press, 2007.

Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.

Ollett, Andrew. Language of the Snakes: Prakrit, Sanskrit, and the Language Order of Premodern India. South Asia Across the Disciplines. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. [https://doi.org/10.1525/luminos.37]

Quintanilla, Sonia Rhie. History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, ca. 150 BCE–100 CE. Studies in Asian Art and Archaology, Vol. 25. Leiden: Brill, 2007. [https://brill.com/view/title/13083]

Shimada, Akira. “Formation of Andhran Buddhist Narrative: A Preliminary Survey.” In Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond: In Honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Her Fifty-Fifth Birth Anniversary, edited by Peter Skilling, and Justin McDaniel. Bangkok: Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2012.

Stone, Elizabeth Rosen. The Buddhist Art of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994.

Thapar, Romila. Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2002.

Willis, Michael D., Joe Cribb, and Julia Shaw. Buddhist Reliquaries from Ancient India. London: British Museum Press, 2000. 

 

Gupta-Vākāṭaka Age

 

Bhandare, Shailendra. "Numismatics and History: The Maurya-Gupta Interlude in the Gangetic Plain." In Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE, edited by Patrick Olivelle, 67–112. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2011. [10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305326.003.0004]

Grousset, René. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970.

Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.

Sen, Tansen. “The Travel Records of Chinese Pilgrims: Faxian, Xuanzang, and Yijing.Education about Asia 11, no. 3 (winter 2006): 24–33.

Spink, Walter. Ajaṇtạ̄: History and Development, Volume 1. The End of the Golden Age. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.

Spink, Walter. Ajaṇtạ̄: History and Development, Volume 5. Cave by Cave. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007. 

Williams, Joanna Gottfried. The Art of Gupta India: Empire and Province. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982.

Wink, André. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Leiden; New York: Brill, 1990.

 

Pusyabhuti and Chalukyan Ascendancy

 

Davidson, Ronald M. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/davi12618; not open access]

Eaton, Richard Maxwell. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765. London: Allen Lane, 2019. [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520325128/india-in-the-persianate-age; excerpt but not full access]

Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. 3rd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Wink, André. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Leiden; New York: Brill, 1990.

 

Gurjara-Pratiharas, Palas and Rashtrakutas [c. 700 – 975 CE]

 

Davidson, Ronald M. Indian Esoteric Buddhism: A Social History of the Tantric Movement. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/davi12618; not open access]

Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. 3rd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Wink, André. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Leiden; New York: Brill, 1990.

 

More References

 

Bhandare, Shailendra. “Money and the Monuments: Coins of the Sada Dynasty of the Coastal Andhra Region.” In Amaravati: The Art of an Early Buddhist Monument in Context, edited by Akira Shimada and Michael Willis, 37–45. London: British Museum. 2016.

Grousset, René. The Empire of the Steppes: A History of Central Asia. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1970.

Mitra, Debala. Buddhist Monuments. Calcutta: Sahitya Samsad, 1971. 

Neelis, Jason. Early Buddhist Transmission and Trade Networks: Mobility and Exchange within and beyond the Northwestern Borderlands of South Asia. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2011.

Stone, Elizabeth Rosen. The Buddhist Art of Nāgārjunakoṇḍa. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1994.

Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta. A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar. 3rd ed. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Schwartzberg, Joseph E., Shiva G. Bajpai, and American Geographical Society of New York. A Historical Atlas of South Asia: 2nd impression, with additional material. Association for Asian Studies Reference Series, No. 2. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Thapar, Romila. Somanatha: The Many Voices of a History. New Delhi; New York: Penguin, 2004.

Singh, Upinder. “Sanchi: The History of the Patronage of an Ancient Buddhist Establishment.” Indian Economic and Social History Review 33, no. 1 (March 1996): 1–35. [https://doi.org/10.1177/001946469603300101]

Spink, Walter. Ajaṇtạ̄: History and Development, Volume 1. The End of the Golden Age. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2005.

Verma, Rajiv Kumar. “Kalachuri Inscriptions: A Reflection of Dwindling Political Power.Veethika 1, no. 3 (December 2015): 53–61.

Wink, André. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Leiden; New York: Brill, 1990.

Zin, Monika. “Mandhatar, the Universal Monarch, and the Meaning of Representations of the Cakravartin in the Amaravati School, and of the Kings on the Kanaganahalli Stupa.” In Buddhist Narrative in Asia and Beyond: In Honor of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn on Her Fifty-Fifth Birth Anniversary, edited by Peter Skilling, and Justin McDaniel. Bangkok: Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, 2012.

Singh, Arvind K. "Interpreting the History of the Paramāras." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 22, no. 1 (January 2012): 13–28. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/41490371; not open access]

Caudhurī, Ābadula Mamina. Dynastic History of Bengal, c. 750–1200 A.D. Asiatic Society of Pakistan Publications, No. 21. Dacca: Asiatic Society of Pakistan, 1967.

Singh, Upinder. A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century. New Delhi; Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2008.

Huntington, Susan L. The ‘Pāla-Sena’ Schools of Sculpture. Studies in South Asian Culture, Vol. 10. Leiden: Brill, 1984. [https://brill.com/view/title/5673; not open access]