India

Books

BAYLY, C.A. Empire and Information: intelligence-gathering and social communication in India, 1780-1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1996.

BELLASIS, M. Honourable Company. London: Hollis & Carter, 1952.

BRENDON, Vyvyen. Children of the Raj. London: Phoenix, 2006.

BRITTLEBANK, Kate. Tall Tales and True: India, Historiography and British Imperial Imaginings. Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2008.

BRITTLEBANK, Kate. Tipu Sultan's Search for Legitimacy: Islam and Kingship in a Hindu Domain. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.

BUDDLE, Anne. The Tiger and the Thistle: Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India 1760-1800. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1999.

BUDDLE, Anne. Tigers Round the Throne: the Court of Tipu Sultan. London: Zamana Gallery, 1990.

CARITA, Helda. The Palaces of Goa: models and types of Indo-Portuguese civil architecture. London: Cartago, 1999.

CAVALIERO, Roderick. Strangers in the Land: the rise and decline of the British Indian Empire. London: I.B. Tauris, 2002.

COLLEY Linda. Captives: Britain, Empire and the World 1600-1850. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002. [See: pp. 263-268 and Chapter 9 'The Tiger and the Sword.' pp.269-307.

COOPER. Randolf G.S. The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India: the struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

DALRYMPLE, William. White Mughals: love and betrayal in eighteenth century India. London: HarperCollins, 2002.

DAVIS, Richard H. Lives of Indian Images. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997.
[see: 'Indian Images Collected,' pp. 143-157 for discussion of the looting of Seringapatam and the story of Tipu's mechanical tiger - now located in the V&A Museum, London].

De ALMEIDA, Hermione and GILPIN, George H. Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2006.

DESHPANDE, Prachi. Creative Pasts: historical memory and identity in western India, 1700-1960. Columbia: Columbia University Press, 2007.

DWIVEDI, Sharada and MEHROTRA, Rahul. Bombay: the cities within. Bombay: Eminence Designs, 2001.

DWIVEDI, Sharada and MEHROTRA, Rahul. Fort Walks: around Bombay's Fort area. Bombay: Eminence Designs, c1999.

The Eighteenth Century in Indian History: Evolution or Revolution? (ed.) P.J. Marshall. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003.

FISHER, Michael H. Counterflows to Colonialism: Indian travellers and settlers in Britain 1600-1857. Delhi: Permanent Black, 2004.

FORREST, Denys. Tiger of Mysore: the Life and Death of Tipu Sultan. London: Chatto & Windus, 1970.

FURBER, Holden. John Company At Work: a study of European expansion in India in the late eighteenth century. New York: Octagon Books, 1970 [first publ. 1948].

GORDON, Stewart. The Marathas 1600-1818. New York: Cambridge University, 1993.

GROSECLOSE, Barbara S. British Sculpture and the Company Raj: church monuments and public statuary in Madras, Calcutta, and Bombay to 1858. Newark: University of Delaware Press, c1995.

HARDGRAVE, Robert L. A Portrait of the Hindus: Balthazar Solvyns & the European image of India, 1760-1824. New York: Oxford University Press in association with Mapin, 2004.

HAWES, Christopher J. Poor Relations: the making of a Eurasian community in British India 1773-1833. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, 1996.

Indo-French Relations. [eds.] K.S. Mathew and S. Jeyaseela Stephen. Delhi: Pragati Publications, 1999.
[see: B. Sheik Ali, "French Relations with Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan." pp. 1-18; and Jean Marie Lafont, "Observations on the French Military Presence in the Indian States 1750-1849." pp.199-234.

JASANOFF, Maya. Edge of Empire: lives, culture, and conquest in the East, 1750-1850. New York: Knopf, 2005.

LAFONT, Jean-Marie. Indika: Essays in Indo-French Relations 1630-1976. New Delhi: Centre de Sciences Humaines, 2000.
[see: "Some Aspects of the Relations Between Tipu Sultan and France 1761-1799: Tipu Sultan's Embassy to Versailles in 1787." pp.150-176].

LONGFORD, Elizabeth. Wellington The Years of the Sword. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1969. pp.45-98.

LOSTY, Jeremiah P. Calcutta: City of Palaces: a survey of the city in the days of the East India Company 1690-1858.London: British Library, 1990.

McGILVARY, George K. East India Patronage and the British State: the Scottish elite and politics in the eighteenth century. London: I.B.Tauris, 2008.

McLAREN, Martha. British India & British Scotland 1780-1830: career building, empire building, and a Scottish school of thought on Indian governance. Akron, Ohio: University of Akron Press, 2001.

MARSHALL, P.J. "'Cornwallis Triumphant': War in India and the British Public in the Late Eighteenth Century." in Trade and Conquest: studies on the rise of British dominance in India. Aldershot: Variorum, 1993 pp.57-74.

MOIENUDDIN, Mohammad. Sunset at Srirangapatam: after the death of Tipu Sultan, Tiger of Mysore. London: Sangam Books, 2000.

MOON, Penderel. The British Conquest and Dominion of India. London: Duckworth, 1989.

NARAYAN, Rajan. The Heritage Buildings of Bombay. Mumbai: English Edition, 2001.

NAVARANE, M.S. Heritage Sites of Maritime Maharashtra. Mumbai: Maritime History Society, 2001.

NAVARANE, M.S. Sea and Hill Forts of Western India: aerial views and historical perspectives. Mumbai : Maritime History Society, 1998.

NIGHTINGALE, Pamela. Trade and Empire in Western India 1784-1806. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.

O'QUINN, Daniel. Staging Governance: theatrical imperialism in London, 1770-1800. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2005.
[see: Chapter 7: 'War and Precinema: Tipu Sultan and the Allure of Mechanical Display' pp.312-348].

PALSETIA, Jesse S. The Parsis of India: preservation of identity in Bombay City. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

PEARSON, Michael Naylor. The Portuguese in India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

The Politics of the British Annexation of India 1757-1857. (ed.) Michael H. Fisher. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1993.

PRAKASH, Om. European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Ports and Their Hinterlands in India, (1700-1950). (ed.) Indu Banga. New Delhi: Manohar Publications, 1992.

The Raj: India and the British, 1600-1947. (ed.) C.A. Bayly. London: National Portrait Publications, 1990.

Reminiscences: the French in India. New Delhi: Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage, c1997.

ROBINSON, Francis. The Mughal Emperors and the Islamic dynasties of India, Iran and Central Asia, 1206-1925. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007.

SPEAR, Percival. The Nabobs: a study of the social life of the English in the eighteenth-century India. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.

STRONGE, Susan. Tipu's Tigers. London: V & A Publications, 2009.

Tall Tales and True: India, historiography and British imperial imaginings. (ed.) Kate Brittlebank. Clayton, Vic.: Monash University Press, 2008.
[see: Chapter 3. "Piety and Power: a preliminary analysis of Tipu Sultan's dreams." (Brittlebank) pp. 31-41].

TELTSCHER, Kate, India Inscribed: European and British Writing on India 1600-1800. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1995.
[see: Chapter 7: "'Vocabularies of Vile Epithets': British Representations of the Sultans of Mysore." pp.229-258].

TINDALL, Gillian. City of Gold: the biography of Bombay. London: Temple Smith, 1982.

Tipu Sultan: A Great Martyr. (ed.) B. Sheikh Ali. Bangalore; University of Bangalore, 1993.

Tipu Sultan and His Age: A Collection of Seminar Papers. (ed.) Aniruddha Ray. Kolkata: The Asiatic Society, 2002.

Under the Indian Sun: British landscape artists. (ed.) Pauline Rohatgi and Pheroza Godrej. Bombay : Marg Publications, c1995.

TRAVERS, Robert. Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India: the British in Bengal.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

WADIA, Ruttonjee Ardeshir. The Bombay Dockyard and the Wadia Master Builders. Bombay: Ruttonjee Ardeshir Wadia, 1955.

WATSA, Karita. Brahmins and Bungalows: travels through South Indian history.New Delhi: Penguin, 2004.
[see: "Srirangapattana: The Isle of Lost Dreams." pp. 11-42].

WILKINSON, Theon. Two Monsoons. London: Duckworth, 1976.

WOODFIELD, Ian. Music of the Raj: a social and economic history of music in late eighteenth-century Anglo-Indian society. New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Journal Articles

BRITTLEBANK, Kate. "Tales of Treachery: Rumour as the Source of Claims that Tipu Sultan was Betrayed." Modern Asian Studies Vol. 37 No. 1 (2003) pp.195-211.

BRITTLEBANK, Kate. "The White Raja of Srirangapattana: Was Arthur Wellesley Tipu Sultan's True Successor?." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. XXVI No. 1 (2003) pp.23-35.

BRYANT, G.J. "Scots in India in the Eighteenth Century." Scottish Historical Review Vol. LXIV (1985) pp.22-41/

BUDDLE, Anne. "The Tipu Mania: Narrative Sketches of the Conquest of Mysore." MARG Vol. XL No.4 1989 pp.53-70.

DALRYMPLE, William "Assimilation and Transculturation in Eighteenth-Century India: a response to Pankaj Mishra." Common Knowledge Vol 11 Part 2005 pp.445-485.

JASANOFF, Maya. "Collectors of Empire: Objects, Conquests and Imperial Self-Fashioning". Past & Present No. 184 (August 2004) pp.109-135.

NAIR, Janaki. "Tipu Sultan, History Painting and the Battle for 'Perspective'." Studies in History Vol.22 No.1 2006 pp.97-143.

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