Main group 1

• Basham, Arthur Llewellyn, The wonder that was India: a survey of the history and culture of the Indian sub-continent before the coming of the Muslims, 3., rev. ed., London, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1967, pr. 1979Compulsory*
• Metcalf, Barbara Daly; Metcalf, Thomas R., A concise history of modern India, 3. ed., Cambridge [England], Cambridge University Press, [2012]

• Jacobsen, Knut A.; Ericson, Malin, Hinduismen: historia, tradition, mångfald, Stockholm, Natur och kultur, 2004
• Jacobsen, Knut A.; Andersson, Thomas, Buddhismen: kultur, historia, tradition, Stockholm, Natur och kultur, 2002
• Jones, Kenneth W., The New Cambridge History of India: Socioreligious reform movements in British India, Cambridge University Press, 2008

* Compulsory