E-Book Links

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 07 Feb 2008 23:38

I am posting some e-books links that I collected. To these there are the Google Books and Gutenberg links. If there is insufficient interest will make this a regular thread than a sticky.

1) Indian Information Institute of Technology site:
Digital Library of India

http://dli.iiit.ac.in/

2) Internet Archive (texts)

http://www.archive.org/details/texts

3) Free books 2020ok.com site (India specific)

http://2020ok.com/4895.htm

4) Journal of World History

http://www.historycooperative.org/jwhindex.html

5) Modern European Intellectual History Syllabus

LINK

6)Historical Atlas of South Asia

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/schwartzberg/

7) I like this site for classic novels
http://arthursclassicnovels.com/arthurs/

Please add to the list.

Thanks, ramana

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 08 Feb 2008 02:16

Try this site for

Kalki's Ponniyan Selvan

The book is about Rajaraja Chola.

Rudranathh · Post by **Rudranathh** » 08 Feb 2008 12:41

Can these types of books be added? Links taken from another forum.

Sri Swami Shivananda - Easy Steps to Yoga
[quote]This simple book will get you started on the path of yoga and meditation. Author Sri Swami Sivananda believes: â€œThe Goal of life is the attainment of Self-realization or God-consciousness.â€

sanjaychoudhry · Post by **sanjaychoudhry** » 10 Feb 2008 02:00

The Sindh Story by K.R. Malkani

The book recounts the story of the Sindh and the valour of the Sindhis, right from Harrappa civlisation to Alexander's defeat by Sindhis to the invasion of Mohd. Bin Qasim to the modern Jiye Sindh movement. A light and fast read.

http://yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu/~jamali/sindh/story/

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 10 Feb 2008 21:21

Manybooks.net

A forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar Robert Sewell

You can download in any format.

Also checkout the other authors and titles.

Rudradev · Post by **Rudradev** » 11 Feb 2008 04:38

Ramana garu, could you please post the link here for the Carroll Quigley E-book you had once posted before? The title was something about "civilizations", I don't remember exactly. TIA

k prasad · Post by **k prasad** » 11 Feb 2008 05:52

http://www.aeronautics.ru/literature.htm

Huge collection of military related books, and excellent collection of WW2 books - a must see.

http://avaxsphere.com/ebooks/history_military

Not as reader friendly, but a collection thats just as good, and much bigger as well.

Shalav · Post by **Shalav** » 11 Feb 2008 21:16

The Internet Sacred Text Archive - collection of religious literature from across the world.

ManyBooks.net - online repository in various categories and available for download in various formats.

Internet book list - online catalogue of books

Internet Public Library - Resource of links to many many online reference and publicly available resources.

shiv · Post by **shiv** » 12 Feb 2008 06:52

Let me put my own ebook downloadable off BR here

Pakistan-failed State

sanjaychoudhry · Post by **sanjaychoudhry** » 12 Feb 2008 12:24

E-books published by Voice of Dharma, the right-wing publishing house of Delhi started by Sita Ram Goel. Has titles by Sita Ram Goel, Koenraad Elst, David Frawley, Sri Aurobindo, Ram Swarup, N. Rajaram, etc.

http://voiceofdharma.org/books/

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 12 Feb 2008 23:17

Rudradev wrote:Ramana garu, could you please post the link here for the Carroll Quigley E-book you had once posted before? The title was something about "civilizations", I don't remember exactly. TIA

Evolution of Civilization - Bitorrent

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 12 Feb 2008 23:24

Rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier:

http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft067n99v9/

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 13 Feb 2008 00:27

http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId ... nd=ucpress

Tribes of India
The Struggle for Survival
Christoph von FÃ¼rer-Haimendorf
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Â· Los Angeles Â· Oxford
Â© 1982 The Regents of the University of California

This type of research of material is being used by the EJs to go after the population of India. Andhra was the first experiment in the sociology experiment.

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 13 Feb 2008 00:29

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft9j49p32d/

The Vangaurd of the Islamic Revolution
The Jamaâ€˜at-i Islami of Pakistan
Seyed Vali Reza Nasr
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Â· Los Angeles Â· London
Â© 1994 The Regents of the University of California

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 13 Feb 2008 00:31

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft7b69p12h/

Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982
M. Hassan Kakar
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley Â· Los Angeles Â· London
Â© 1995 The Regents of the University of California

svinayak · Post by **svinayak** » 13 Feb 2008 00:33

http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft3p30056w/

Before Taliban
Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
David B. Edwards
University of California Press
Berkeley Los Angeles London
Â© 2002 The Regents of the University of California

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 13 Feb 2008 01:11

ramana wrote:Manybooks.net

A forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar Robert Sewell

You can download in any format.

Also checkout the other authors and titles.

Check out Bangalore Suryanarain Row's book on the same subject: A History of Vijayanagar: The Never To Be Forgotten Empire

He takes some contrary positions to that of R.Sewell.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Feb 2008 03:22

Thanks SwamyG. His is an Indian take on Vijayanagar. Did you read Chap IV? How can one download for further study?

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 13 Feb 2008 04:24

Rare book reprint service with offices in Delhi and Chennai

http://www.asianeds.com/default.asp

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 14 Feb 2008 20:42

ramana wrote:Thanks SwamyG. His is an Indian take on Vijayanagar. Did you read Chap IV? How can one download for further study?

Yes I did read Chapter IV. I have the printed copy of the book with me. Alas, the Google books sometimes omits some pages.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 15 Feb 2008 20:48

Where did you get that printed copy from? And can I borrow it?
Thanks, ramana

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 16 Feb 2008 03:33

During my last visit to India, I chanced upon it at 'Gangarams' in Bangalore. I bought about 10+Kg of books alone

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 16 Feb 2008 05:40

Yeah. Similar problems on returns from desh. Need to set up an exchange program within our selves. In Bay Area most of the books are circulated and returned at next mtg.

Paul · Post by **Paul** » 16 Feb 2008 06:16

http://persian.packhum.org/persian/main

Online collection of books mainly on Mughals. Translated from Persian.

SSridhar · Post by **SSridhar** » 16 Feb 2008 07:48

http://www.bhutto.org/

Online collection of books and speeches of ZA Bhutto, including PDF form of his book, "If I am Assassinated".

sanjaychoudhry · Post by **sanjaychoudhry** » 17 Feb 2008 01:47

The Myth of St. Thomas e-book:

http://hamsa.org/

Everything you wanted to know about how the hoax started but didn't know whom to ask. Read it all online.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 20 Feb 2008 09:25

Some contributions of South India to Indian History
SwamyG, Please note last chapter!

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 21 Feb 2008 00:24

Ramana: I read the last chapter. Cholas and Vijayanagaram finds prominence.

Folks who would like to read Dharampal's 'Beautiful Tree' can use this Link.... Punch in your name and email address, a link will be sent to you that you can use to download the book. Great book, unfortunately there are some blank pages containing some tabular data. But the entire text seems to be there.

vsunder · Post by **vsunder** » 22 Feb 2008 22:21

Letters written in a Mahratta Camp in 1809.

Here is another e-book:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10946/10 ... 0946-h.htm

Malcolm's History of Central India:

http://books.google.com/books?id=AD4QAA ... istory&lr=

Also the Imperial Gazetteer of India by Hunter is available on Google books for free download. But it is huge. Vol 9 runs to 555 pages and is 19mb.

SwamyG · Post by **SwamyG** » 24 Feb 2008 20:35

Celextel's Online Spiritual Library

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 26 Feb 2008 22:00

A few more suggestions:

Available in Google Books. Cant down load!

Please try to read Chapter four by Richard Eaton in this book

1) The Experience of Islamic Art on the Margins of Islam By Bierman, Irene A.

2) The Rise of the Indo-Afghan Empire, C.1710-1780 By Jos J. L. Gommans

3) Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World By Andre Wink

4) India Before Europe By Catherine Ella Blanshard Asher, Cynthia Talbot

5) Tidings of the King: A Translation and Ethnohistorical Analysis of the Rayavacakamu (Hardcover)

6) A Textbook of Historiography, 500 B.C. to A.D. 2000 By E. Sreedharan

7) From Balan to Firuz Shah Tuglaq

Tariq e Firuzshahi by Ziauddin Barani. He of the Zawabit fame.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 27 Feb 2008 09:26

primary sources for World history text book

Primary Sources

Post Colonial Web

vsunder · Post by **vsunder** » 28 Feb 2008 03:59

Two books by Maj.-Gen "Thugee" Sleeman. The man who took on the thugs. Some people advocate to use his strategy against modern "Thugees". There is a temple endowed by him in Sleemanabad near Jabalpur his HQ:

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16997/16 ... 6997-h.htm

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15483/15 ... 5483-h.htm

A 555 page handbook with fantastic drawings of "The Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon" free download:

Google Books Link

sanjaychoudhry · Post by **sanjaychoudhry** » 29 Feb 2008 11:06

Kashmir: The Storm Center of the World

A book by Hindu nationalist Balraj Madhok, a professor at Srinagar. He was there in Kashmir when the tribal invasion took place. The book is an eye-witness account of what happened in Kashmir and how it was saved and the bunglings our friend Nehru (the "Blunderbuss of India") committed and how he snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
http://ikashmir.net/storm/index.html

An extract from Chapter 7:

I met Pt. Nehru at Satwari aerodrome and told him about the critical situation in Mirpur and requested him to order immediate reinforcement of Indian troops to the beleagured tour. I was amazed at his response. He flew into a rage and shouted: "Talk to Sheikh Sahib - talk to Sheikh Sahib. ' I then told him that Sheikh Sahib was indifferent to the plight of the Jammu region, and that he alone could do something to save the people of Mirpur. But all my entreaties fell on deaf ears. No reinforcement was sent to Mirpur.

Mirpur fell on the 25th of November 1947, when the enemy broke open the back gate of the walled town by heavy gunfire. The state troops and local officers then lost heart and retreated even before the town could be evacuated by the civilians. The people, therefore, began to run in terror. The fight soon became a rout and the rout a massacre. Hardly two thousand people out of about 25 thousand living at that time in the ill-fated town managed to reach Jhangar in safety. The rest were ruthlessly butchered. The number of women abducted from there ran into thousands. Most of them were paraded and then sold in the bazaars of Jehlum, Rawalpindi and Peshawar. The barbarities of the Pakistan troops and civilians on these hapless women who were kept for sometime in Alibeg camp before their dispersal to different towns put to shame the worst orgies of rape and violence associated with the hordes of Ghengiz Khan and Nadir Shah.

The loot obtained by the Pakistanis from these towns, especially from Mirpur, went into crores. The floor of every house in Mirpur was dug by raiders in search of hoarded treasures.

Apparently, that lout Nehru had instructed Indian army commanders to take orders from Sheikh Abdullah for their Kashmir operations. Abdullah, of course, prevented the army from reaching the Hindu areas to provide assistance against the Pakistani raiders who were raping and abducting Hindu women. It is my belief that when Hindu leftists and "secularists" rule, it is the women who are most at risk when the chicken come home to roost.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 01 Mar 2008 01:06

Guys this is not a discussion thread and sorry for the first remark.

X-posted....

Ananth wrote:
ramana wrote: Chapter I of Saha Soneri Panne: rar format
PDF is here: http://files.filefront.com/6+Glororious ... einfo.html

I didnt know this book was that long! Now need to get hold of it.

sunilUpa · Post by **sunilUpa** » 01 Mar 2008 02:11

Dharampal Collected Writings in 5 Volumes is available for download in the following site.

Dharampal Collected Writings in 5 Volumes

These include,
Vol 1: Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century
Vol 2: Civil Disobedience in the Indian Tradition
Vol 3: The Beautiful Tree Indigenous Indian Education in the Eighteenth Century
Vol 4: Panchayat Raj and India's polity
Vol 5: Essays on Tradition, Recovery and Freedom (which included the Bharatiya Chit, Manas and Kaal)

Shankk · Post by **Shankk** » 01 Mar 2008 04:13

Some ideas from Savarkar:

1. Hindu Rashtra Darshan

http://www.esnips.com/doc/93e8025d-74e4 ... ra-Darshan

2. Essentials of Hindutva

http://www.esnips.com/doc/ddc00a65-8c7c ... f-Hindutva

3. A warning to Hindus (Savarkar has only a preface here though he translated the book in Marathi)

http://www.esnips.com/doc/3b86f5a5-758a ... -to-Hindus

Shankk · Post by **Shankk** » 01 Mar 2008 22:09

There is so much information buried in literature written in various Indian languages but unfortunately is not translated into language that majority today understands. Looks like a good start to what Shiv said about Hindu narration would be to translate this literature in English so that it will reach the masses quickly.

I remember reading so many books in Marathi about Indian history during my childhood and also remember how they inculcated a burning desire inside me but alas I cannot share much of it since it is not translated. I am trying to find a complete version of "Saha Soneri Paane" book translated into English so that it can be posted here. It would be great to re read it after many many years.

Apologies for posting this remark here as the thread is meant only for links to ebooks. Just wanted to share my thoughts.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 02 Mar 2008 01:19

A visual thesaurus. Might improve our writing skills!

www.visuwords.com

rajamanic · Post by **rajamanic** » 02 Mar 2008 08:56

I have been going thru some of the books that you guys are talking about. I have a suggestion/request to make:

I have a 3yr old, but given the BS that is taught in our Indian schools (Romila Thapar et al), and given that I believe in Vedic Dharma and all, I was wondering what do some of the parents of young kids amongst you doing in order to educate your kids with the right information about our history, religion, culture and Dharma to mention a few subjects?

Probably, some of you may even have a list of books that you believe are important for the kids at different ages to read that are outside the academic curriculum. If so, can you list them here? if not, given that I do not have enough info about India myself (a CBSE Dhimmi), can someone help by suggesting books that are good?

BTW I am thinking both short term and long term.

Maybe we could properly tag these lists in order to help every other parent out there.