Main group 1

• Gottlob, Michael, Sources of historical thinking in South Asia: a handbook of sources from colonial times to the present, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2003Compulsory*
• Rothermund, Dietmar, India: the rise of an Asian giant, New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 2008Compulsory*

Main group 2

• Brass, Paul R., Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal, Hoboken, Taylor & Francis, 2010
• Hinnells, John R.; King, Richard, Religion and violence in South Asia: theory and practice, London, Routledge, 2007
• Jones, Kenneth W.., Socio-Religious Reform Movements in British India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990
• Metcalf, Barbara Daly; Metcalf, Thomas R., A concise history of modern India, 2. ed., Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Parekh, Bhikhu, Colonialism, tradition and reform: an analysis of Gandhi's political discourse, Rev. ed., New Delhi, Sage, 1999
• Sen, Amartya, The argumentative Indian: writings on Indian history, culture and identity, London, Allen Lane, 2005

* Compulsory