South Asia

South Asia covers Afghanistan, Bengladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanamar (Burma), Nepal, Paksitan, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. This CD includes 209 classic works of fiction, history, and religion, 13 Country Studies, and the CIA World Factbook. The vast majority of the books deal with India.

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Complete Table of Contents:

2007 CIA World Factbook

With maps, flags, and up-to-date information on every country in the world, this is an interlinked set of hundreds of HTML documents. You should open it with your Web browser.

• Country list
• Other files

Country Studies

• Afghanistan (1997)
• Predicting the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: The Intelligence Community's Record by Douglas MacEachin (first published by the Center for Intelligence Studies in 2002)
• Bengladesh  (1988)
• Appendix (html document)
• Bhutan (1991)
• Appendix (html document)
• Cambodia (1987)
• Appendix A (html document)
• Appendix B (html document)
• India (1995)
• Appendix (html document)
• Tables 1 (html document)
• Tables 2 (html document)
• Indonesia (1992)
• Appendix (html document)
• Laos (1994)
• Appendix (html document)
• Nepal (1991)
• Appendix (html document)
• Pakistan (1994)
• Appendix (html document)
• Singapore (1989)
• Appendix (html document)
• Sri Lanka (1988)
• Appendix A (html document)
• Appendix B (html document)
• Thailand (1987)
• Appendix (html document)
• Vietnam (1987)
• Appendix (html document)

History

General

• Around the World on a Bicycle, volume 2 from Teheran to Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
• The Crest Wave of Evolution by Kenneth Monis
• Principal Navigations by Richard Haklyut
• volume 8, Asia part 1
• volume 9, Asia part 2
• Overland through Asia by Thomas Knox, 1871

Burmese History

• Lives of the Three Mrs. Judsons, Missionaries to Burmah by Arabella W. Stuart

Ceylon/Sri Lankan History

• Ceylon by Sir James Tennet volume 1 (of 2), 1860
• Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon by Samuel Baker
• An Historical Relation of the Island of Ceylon by Robert Knox
• Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Sterndale
• The Rifle and Hound in Ceylon by Samuel Baker
• Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by J. Emerson Terment

Indian and Nepalese History

• Akbar Emperor of India by Richard von Garbe, 1909
• Bengal Dacoits and Tigers by Maharanee Sunity Devee
• The Case for India, 1917
• Darkest India by Booth-Tucker
• Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore by Robert Elliott
• Handbook of Agra and the Taj by E.B. Havell, 1904
• Indian Speeches 1907-1909 by Viscount Morley
• A Journey to Katmandu by Lawrence Oliphant, 1852
• Journey Throught he Kingdom of Oude in 1849-185- by Sir W.H. Sleeman (both volumes)
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
• A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar; A Contribution to the History of India by Robert Sewell
• The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan, by H. G. Keene
• From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Helena Blavatsky
• India Old and New by Sir Valentine Chirol
• India: what Can It Teach Us? by F. Max Mueller
• Indian Frontier Policy by General Sir John Adye
• Indian Unrest by Valentine Chirol
• The Khasis by Major P.R.T. Gurdon
• Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin
• L:ighted to Lighten: the Hope of India by Alice B. Van Doren, 1922
• Modern India by William Curtis
• Narrative of the Siege of Delhi by Charles John Griffiths, 1910
• Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Sterndale
• The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, volume 1 by Allan O. Hme, edited by Eugene William Gates, 1889
• New Ideas in India during the 19th Century by Rev. John Morrison
• The Pirates of Malabar and an Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago by John Biddulph
• Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by W. H. Sleeman
• Recollections from Calcutta by Montague Massey, 1918
• A Ride to India Across Persia and Baluchistan by Harry De Windt
• Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier by Maori, 1878
• Three Frenchmen in Bengal by S.C. Hill
• The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India by R.V. Russell
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Twenty-One Days in India by George Aberigh-Mackay

Indonesian History

• The History of Sumatra, containing an account of the goverment, laws, customers and manners of the native inhabitants by William Marsden, 1811
• Quer Durch Borneo, Ergebnisse seiner Reisen in den Jahren 1894, 1896-97 und 1898-1900,  by A.W. Nieuwenhuis
• part 1
• part 2

Literature and Religion

General

• The Garden of Bright Waters, 120 Asiatic Love Poems, translated by Edward Mathers
• The Light of Asia by Sir Edwin Arnold
• Rhymes of the East and Re-Collected Verses by John Kendall
• Sacred Books of the East edited by Epiphanius Wilson, 1900

Indian

• Bagh o Bahar or Tales of the Four Darweshes by Mir Amman of Dihli
• Bubbles of the Foam, translated from Sanscrit by F.W. Bain
• Chaitanya and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal by John Beames
• The Elephant God by Gordon Gassertly
• Folklore of the Santal Parganas, translated by Cecil Bompas
• Forty-One Years in India by Lord Roberts of Kandahar
• History of Indian Philosophy by Surendranath Dasgupta
• Hinduism and Buddhism by Sir Charles Eliot
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope
• Indian Fairy Tales, selected and edited by Joseph Jacobs
• Indian Ghost Stories by S. Mukerji, 1917
• The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F.J. Remy, 1901
• The Loves of Krishna in Indian Painting by W.G. Archer
• More Jakata Tales retold by Ellen Babbitt
• On the Indian Sect of the Jainas by Johann Georg Buehler, 1903
• The Religions of India by Edward Hopkins
• S'akoontala or the Lost Ring, an Indian Drama by Kalidasi, translated by Sir Monier Monier-Williams
• Sonnets by Nawab Myainat Jung Bahadur
• Tales of Bengal by S.B. Banerjea
• Tales of Ind and Other Poems by T. Ramakrishna, 1896
• Tales of the Punjab. Folklore of India by Flora Annie Steel
• Twenty-two Goblins translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur Ryder
• The Yoga Sutras of Pananjali, an interpretation by Charles Johnston
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Chitra, one-act play, in English
• The Crescent Moon (poetry)
• The Fugitive
• The Gardener (poetry)
• Glimpses of Bengal
• The Hungry Stones and Other Stories
• The King of the Dark Chamber (play)
• The Post Office, translated by Devabrata Mukherjee (play)
• Sadhana
• The Songs of Kabir, translated by Tagore (poetry)
• The Stray Birds (poetry)

Hinduism

• Autobiography of a Yogi by Parambansa Yogananda
• The Little Clay Cart, a Hindu Drama attributed to King Shudraka
• The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga by Swami Mukerji
• Hymns of Atharva-Veda
• Le Kama Soutra in French
• Upanishads, translated by F. Max Müller
• part 1
• part 2
• The Upanishads, Translated and Commentated by Swami Paramananda, From the Original Sanskrit Text
• Laws of Manu
• Dharma Sutras
• Institutes of Vishnu
• Bhagavadgita, Sanatsugatiya and Anugita, translated by Kashinath Trimbak Telang
• Hindoo Tales, translated by P.W. Jacobs, 1873
• Hindu Literature edited by Epiphanius Wilson, 1900
• Hindu Tales from the Sanskrit, translated by S.M. Mitra, 1919
• Hindustani Lyrics, rendered from the Urdu by Inayat Khan and Jessie duncan Westbrook, 1919
• The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath by Yogi Kamocharaku
• Letter to a Hindu by Leo Tolstoy
• Maha-Bharata, the Epic of Ancient India, condensed into English verse by Romesh C. Dutt, 1899
• Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
• The Mahabarata translated by Kisai Mohar Ganguli
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems, translated by Henry Hart Milman, 1835
• The Poison Tree, a Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, translated by Miriam S. Knight, 1884
• The Ramayan of Valmiki, translated into English verse by Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, 1874
• Le Ramayana, translated from Sanscarit to French by Hippolyte Fauche
• volume 1
• volume 2
• A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga by Yogi Ramacharaka
• A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga
• Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa, translated by Arthur W. Ryder, 1912
• The Shiksha-Patri of the Swiami-Narayana Sect, translated by Monier Williams
• The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (from the Mahabharata) translated by Sir Edwin Arnold, 1900
• Tales from Hindu Dramatists by R.N. Dutta, 1912
• Tattava Muktavali by Purnananda Chakravartin
• Two Old Faiths, Essays ont he Religions of the Hindus 'and the Mohammedans by J. Murray Mitchell and Sir William Muir
• Vedanta Sutras with the commetary by Ramanuja, part 3, translated by George Thibaut, 1904
• Vedanta-Sutras with the commentary by Sankaracharya, part 1 translated by George Thibaut
• Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales translated by Richard Burton
•  The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, "The Book of the Spiritual Man", An Interpretation By Charles Johnston

Buddhism

• Bouddha (in French) by Jules Claretie
• Buddhist Psalms, translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin by S. Yamabe and L. Adams Beck
• The Dawn and the Day or the Buddha and the Christ part 1 by Henry Niles 1894
• Dhammapada
• The Essence of Buddhism edited by E. Haldeman-Julius, 1922
• The Life of Buddha and Its Lessons by H.S. Olcott, 1912
• Sutta-Nipata
• Buddhist Sutras
• Vinaya Texts part 1
• Saddharma-Pundarika
• The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura
• A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline, Translated and annotated with a Corean recension of the Chinese text by James Legge

Fiction about India

• Across India or Live Boys in the Far East by Oliver Optic 1895
• Atma, a Romance by Caroline Augusta Frazer
• Caste by W.A. Fraser
• Far to Seek, a Romance of England and India by Maud Diver
• Hilda, a Story of Calcutta by Sara Jeannette Duncan
• The Jungle Fugitives, a Tale of Life and Adventure in India by Edward Ellis
• In Clive's Commmand, a Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang
• Olivia in India by O. Douglas
• George Manville Fenn
• Begumbah, a Tale of the Indian Mutiny and Three other Short Stories
• The Rajah of Dah
• G.A. Henty
• At the Point of the Bayonet, a Tale of the Mahratta War
• With Clive in India
• Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
• Actions and Reactions
• American Notes
• Barrack Room Ballads
• Bridge Builders
• Captains Courageous
• The Day's Work
• Departmental Ditties
• A Diversity of Creatures
• France at War on the Frontier of Civilization
• Indian Tales
• The Jungle Book
• Just So Stories
• Kim
• The Kipling Reader: Selectiions from the Books of Rudyard Kipling
• Letters of Travel (1892-1913)
• Life's Handicap, being Stories of Mine Own People
• The Light That Failed
• The Man Who Would Be King
• Plain Tales from the Hills
• Puck of Pook's Hill
• Rewards and Fairies
• Sea Warfare
• Second Jungle Book
• Soldiers Three
• Songs from Books
• Stalky and Company
• The Story of the Gadsby
• Traffics and Discoveries
• Under the Deodars
• Verses 1889-1896
• Captain Mayne Reid
• The Castaways
• The Cliff Climbers
• Lew Wallace
• The Prince of India or Why Constantinople Fell
• volume 1
• volume 2

Fiction About Burma/Mayanamar

• On the Irrawaddy: a Story of the First Burmese War by G.A. Henty
• The Road to Mandalay, a Tale of Burma by Bithia Mary Croker, 1917

Fiction About Malaysia and Malaysian Literature

• Malayan Literature, comprising Romantic Tles, Epic Poetry and Royal Chronicles, translated by Chauncey Starkweather
• Trapped by Malays, a Tale of Bayonet and Kris by George Manville Fenn

Other South Asian Religions

• Moslem/Islam
• The Koran translated from the Arabic by J.M. Rodwell
• The Qu'ran or Koran translated from the Arabic by E.H. Palmer (from the Sacred Books of the East collection, Volumes 6 and 9)
• The Koran translated by George Sale
• Observations on the Mussulmauns of India by Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali, 1832
• Two Old Faiths, Essays on the Religions of the Hindus 'and the Mohammedans by J. Murray Mitchell and Sir William Muir
• Zoroastrianism (originally from Persia)
• Zend-Avesta
• Part 1: Avesta: Vendidad  (Sacred Books of the East Volume 4)
• Part 2 (Sacred Books of the East Volume 23):
• Khorda Avesta: Book of Common Prayer pt. 1
• Khorda Avesta: Book of Common Prayer pt. 2
• Part 3 (Sacred Books of the East Volume 31):
• Avesta: Yasna
• Avesta: Visperad (short)
• Avesta Fragments (short)
• Pahlavi Texts
• Part 1: The Bundahis-Bahman Yast and Shayast La-Shayast (Sacred Books of the East Volume 5)
• Part 3 (Sacred Books of the East Volume 24)
• Dadestan-i Denig
• Menog-i Khrad
• Sad Dar
• Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche