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Indian kingdoms

• Maratha empire
• Vijayanagara empire

Indian History

• A Journey from Madras Through the Countries of Mysore, Canara, and Malabar : Francis Hamilton

Biographies

• Sardar Patel
• Tilak
• One thousand moons : Krishnamurti at eighty-five : Chandmal, Asit

Works of

• Theodore Darlympyle

Sanskrit

• Avadhuta Gita
• Kalidasa’s rtusamhara
• Jayadeva’s GitaGovinda.

Kabichandra Kalicharan Patnaik (1899-1978). The Odisha State Museum palm leaf manuscript illustrated by Dhananjaya is a must. Dr. Dinanath Pathy (1942-2016) eminent art historian compiled a book which provides a very holistic picture of Gitagovinda in Odisha’s traditions across music, dance, sculpture, etc. At the end is a translation by Mahamedhananda Saraswati. Must read. As an add on I would recommend the Gitagovinda edition published in the Orissa Oriental Text Series by Dept of Culture, Odisha. It has the wonderful Sarvanga-Sundari Tika of Kaviraja Narayana Dasa (one of the earliest tikas) and Śrutiranjani Tikā of Pandita Lakshmana Surī. – via Prateek Pattanaik.