A civilisation of many languages
A considered introduction to India’s literary, philosophical and artistic inheritance: ancient and modern, regional and pan-Indian, classical and living.
Texts, traditions and interpretation
Hymn, ritual and inquiry
Selected Vedic hymns, principal Upaniṣads and the long histories of commentary surrounding them.
Explore historical editions ↗Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata
Epic narratives, ethical debate, political imagination and regional retellings.
Find lawful editions ↗Kālidāsa and the dramatic tradition
Poetry and drama understood within their literary and aesthetic worlds.
Historical translations ↗Sangam literature and Tirukkural
Ethics, love, polity and landscape across one of the world’s oldest continuous literary traditions.
Search repository ↗Literatures with their own centres of gravity
Tagore, Bankim and beyond
Poetry, fiction, song, reform and the modern Bengali imagination.
Author recordsPremchand, Kabir and shared worlds
Bhakti poetry, courtly language, modern fiction and intertwined literary histories.
Author recordsFrom Sangam to Subramania Bharati
Classical poetics, devotion, ethics and the literature of modern transformation.
Author recordsKumaran Asan and modern literature
Poetry, social reform, fiction and a vigorous print culture.
Author recordsBhakti, reform and public prose
Jñāneśvar, Tukaram and later currents in social and literary thought.
Author recordsClassical and modern canons
Vachana, court poetry, devotional literature, theatre and the modern novel.
Author recordsDevotion, reform and identity
Poetry, autobiography, social thought and histories of community.
Author recordsRegional worlds, enduring voices
Devotional, historical and modern literary traditions in eastern India.
Author recordsKnowledge beyond the printed page
Rasa, performance and poetics
Concepts shaped through theatre, music, dance and literary criticism.
Temple, textile and craft
Objects and practices understood through makers, regions and ritual contexts.
Language, mathematics and medicine
Historical inquiry that distinguishes primary evidence from later claims.
India beyond India
Migration, translation and cultural continuity across generations and continents.
STATES & CULTURAL REGIONS
India through its many centres
The national story is organised here through states, languages and cultural regions. Boundaries have changed over time; literary, sacred and artistic traditions often cross present-day state lines.
Kashi, Ayodhya, Awadh and Braj
Sanskrit learning, Rāma and Krishna traditions, Hindi and Urdu literature, Banaras music, weaving, architecture and pilgrimage.
Magadha, Mithila and Nalanda
Buddhist and Jain histories, Maithili culture, Madhubani painting, Bhojpuri and Magahi traditions, and major centres of ancient learning.
Bengal’s literary and devotional worlds
Śākta and Vaiṣṇava traditions, Baul music, Bengali literature, reform movements, theatre, art and the intellectual life of Kolkata.
Jagannath, Kalinga and the arts
Odia literature, temple architecture, Odissi, patachitra, palm-leaf manuscripts and a distinctive regional sacred geography.
Gurbani, qissa and frontier histories
Sikh scripture and institutions, Punjabi and Sufi poetry, agrarian life, music, partition memory and diasporic culture.
Courts, desert and oral epic
Dingal and Rajasthani traditions, heroic and devotional poetry, miniature painting, forts, stepwells, textiles and bardic memory.
Jain learning and maritime exchange
Gujarati literature, temple and mercantile cultures, bhakti, craft, coastal trade and long connections across the Indian Ocean.
Vārkarī, Marathi and the Deccan
Jñāneśvar, Tukaram, public devotion, Marathi theatre and prose, Maratha statecraft, forts and modern social thought.
Brahmaputra and many homelands
Assamese Vaiṣṇava institutions, Ahom chronicles, manuscript traditions, weaving, performance and the distinct cultures of the northeastern states.
Śaiva philosophy, Buddhism and mountain cultures
Kashmir Śaivism, Sanskrit poetics, Sufi and vernacular traditions, Buddhist regions, crafts and ecologies of the Himalayan world.
Central India
Rock art, temple sites, Gond and other Adivasi traditions, oral literature, forests, courts and layered regional histories.
Coast, language and encounter
Konkani literature, temple and church traditions, maritime exchange, music, foodways and the long consequences of colonial rule.
SOUTH INDIA IN DEPTH
Languages, empires, temples and oceanic worlds
South India is not a single cultural unit. Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam, Tulu, Kodava and other traditions developed through distinct courts, sacred networks, vernacular literatures and maritime connections.
Sangam, Chola and Tamil devotion
Sangam anthologies, Tirukkural, Āḻvār and Nāyaṉmār poetry, Chola temples and bronzes, Siddha traditions, Bharatanatyam and modern Tamil literature.
Malayalam and the Malabar coast
Sanskrit and Malayalam learning, temple arts, Kathakali, Kūṭiyāṭṭam, Ayurveda, matrilineal histories, maritime trade and religious plurality.
Kannada, Vachana and imperial landscapes
Old Kannada literature, Vīraśaiva Vachanas, Hoysala art, Vijayanagara, Haridāsa music, Jain learning and modern Kannada writing.
Telugu literary and temple traditions
Kavitrayam, court poetry, Kuchipudi, Tirupati’s sacred networks, Vijayanagara legacies, coastal commerce and modern Telugu literature.
Deccan languages and urban cultures
Telugu and Dakhni, Kakatiya architecture, Hyderabad’s Persianate and Urdu worlds, craft, music and histories of the Deccan plateau.
Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, Madhva and Basava
Advaita, Viśiṣṭādvaita, Dvaita and Vīraśaiva traditions shaped institutions, debate, commentary and devotional practice across the south and beyond.
Carnatic music and classical stages
Carnatic repertoires, Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi, Kathakali, Mohiniyattam and Yakshagana join language, devotion, technique and modern reinvention.
Ports, merchants and cultural exchange
Roman, Arab, Persian, Southeast Asian and later European connections linked southern ports to wider circuits of trade, religion, art and language.
WARRIORS & STATECRAFT
Courage, sovereignty and historical memory
This section places military figures within evidence, institutions and their own political worlds. It distinguishes inscription, chronicle, court literature, oral memory and later nationalist retelling.
Chandragupta Maurya
Founder of Mauryan imperial power, remembered through Greek accounts, Jain traditions and later political literature.
Samudragupta
Military expansion and political strategy known especially through the Prayāga Praśasti, a royal inscription requiring critical reading.
Pulakeśin II
Deccan ruler whose campaigns and court are recorded in inscriptional and external sources, including the Aihole inscription.
Rājarāja and Rājendra Chola
Imperial administration, temple patronage, naval activity and Bay of Bengal networks documented through inscriptions and material evidence.
Krishnadevaraya
Ruler, military leader, patron and Telugu author whose reign is read through inscriptions, literature and traveller accounts.
Maharana Pratap
Resistance, mobility and sovereignty in Mewar, remembered through regional sources and later national commemoration.
Rani Durgavati
Queen and military leader whose defence of Gondwana forms an important chapter in central Indian political history.
Rani Abbakka Chowta
Coastal ruler associated with resistance to Portuguese power and the maritime politics of the southwestern coast.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
Fort strategy, mobile warfare, administration and the making of Maratha sovereignty across a contested Deccan.
Guru Gobind Singh
Guru, poet and founder of the Khalsa, central to Sikh religious, literary and martial history.
Lachit Borphukan
Commander remembered for the Battle of Saraighat and the defence of the Ahom kingdom’s Brahmaputra frontier.
Velu Nachiyar
Queen remembered for organising resistance to East India Company power in the Tamil south.
Rani Chennamma
Early opponent of Company annexation whose resistance became a major part of Karnataka’s historical memory.
The Ahom dynasty and the making of early modern Assam
For nearly six centuries, the Ahom kingdom stood among the most enduring and consequential political traditions of precolonial South Asia. From the arrival of Chaolung Sukaphaa in 1228 to the transformations that followed the Treaty of Yandabo in 1826, Ahom rulers, commanders, chroniclers, engineers and communities helped shape the political geography, institutions and cultural character of the Brahmaputra Valley.
This is not a peripheral story or a single episode of military resistance. It is a major civilisational history linking Assam with wider Tai worlds and the Indian subcontinent: a history of state formation, riverine strategy, manuscript culture, diplomacy, agriculture, architecture, sacred landscapes and sustained cultural synthesis. The Buranjis provide one of India’s most remarkable traditions of courtly historical writing, while Charaideo and the wider Sivasagar landscape preserve the material presence of Ahom sovereignty and memory.
Chaolung Sukaphaa
The Tai leader associated with the kingdom’s foundation in 1228. His movement across the Patkai region and settlement in the Brahmaputra Valley began a long process of state formation and accommodation with established communities.
Paik administration
Ahom government organised service, labour and military obligations through the paik system, alongside offices and territorial commands that changed over time. Its operation must be studied through chronicles, revenue evidence and regional scholarship rather than reduced to a modern administrative label.
The Buranjis
Court chronicles composed and copied in Tai-Ahom and Assamese record diplomacy, succession, warfare and political life. They form an exceptional archive, but individual manuscripts, recensions and later editions require comparison and source criticism.
Lachit Borphukan and Saraighat
The Ahom victory over Mughal forces at the Battle of Saraighat is closely associated with commander Lachit Borphukan and riverine strategy. The campaign belongs within the longer Ahom–Mughal contest over western Assam.
Suhungmung to Rudra Singha
Reigns including Suhungmung, Pratap Singha, Gadadhar Singha and Rudra Singha mark changes in territory, offices, military organisation, diplomacy, architecture and court culture. Each reign is presented through dated records rather than dynastic legend alone.
A culture of synthesis
Tai-Ahom ritual traditions interacted with Assamese language, Śākta and Vaiṣṇava institutions, and the practices of many communities of the valley. “Ahom culture” is therefore approached as historically layered and internally diverse.
Charaideo and Sivasagar
The royal moidams at Charaideo, tanks, temples, palaces and performance structures around the wider Sivasagar landscape preserve distinct aspects of Ahom mortuary, civic and courtly heritage. The Charaideo moidams entered the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2024.
Rebellion, invasion and transition
The Moamoria conflict, factional struggles, Burmese invasions and the Treaty of Yandabo form part of the kingdom’s late history. This period is not treated merely as decline; it is a field of social, religious and regional transformation.
Ahom source shelf
Buranji traditions
Cataloguing begins with Tai-Ahom and Assamese manuscript families, including court, diplomatic and dynastic chronicles. Digitised or printed editions are linked only after edition, provenance and reuse status are verified.
Archaeology and inscription
Moidams, buildings, coins, inscriptions, settlement evidence and river landscapes are read alongside texts. Architecture is not used as illustration alone; it is evidence with its own conservation history.
Critical histories of Assam
Colonial compilations, twentieth-century edited Buranjis and recent scholarship may differ in method and interpretation. Catalogue records will identify editor, publisher, date, language and rights status.
Raja Suheldev: record, tradition and public memory
Raja Suheldev occupies an important place in the historical imagination of Awadh and the wider middle Gangetic region. Remembered as a ruler connected with Bahraich and with resistance to the forces of Ghazi Salar Masud, he represents a powerful meeting point between regional history, martial memory, sacred geography and centuries of public storytelling.
The tradition conventionally associates Suheldev with a victory near Bahraich in 1033. Its significance extends beyond a single battle: the story has been carried through Persian narrative, local remembrance, pilgrimage landscapes, oral performance, community histories, literature and modern commemoration. Precisely because the surviving textual record is later and several identifications remain contested, this collection gives Suheldev a prominent but carefully documented treatment.
Eleventh-century north India
The catalogue places Suheldev within the shifting political landscape of the middle Gangetic plain and the frontier histories of Awadh, rather than assigning a precise modern identity unsupported by contemporary evidence.
Mirat-i-Masudi
The frequently cited Persian account was composed in the seventeenth century, centuries after the events it describes. It is important evidence for the development of the tradition, but not a contemporary battle report.
Bahraich and regional traditions
Local narratives, shrines, festivals, community histories and later literary works preserve multiple and sometimes competing memories. Their dates, purposes and audiences will be recorded rather than collapsed into a single version.
History without erasing tradition
This collection keeps epigraphy, archaeology, near-contemporary testimony, later chronicles and modern commemoration distinct. Community associations and royal titles vary across sources and are presented with attribution.
Masters, interpreters and public thinkers
This collection brings together authored works, recorded teachings, philosophical commentaries and civilisational scholarship. It distinguishes original texts from later recollections, translations and institutional editions.
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathamrita, later English renderings including The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, parables and conversations on Kālī, bhakti, Vedānta and the harmony of spiritual paths.
Ramakrishna Order introduction ↗Swami Vivekananda
The nine-volume Complete Works, Chicago addresses, Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, lectures, letters and writings on India.
Explore principal works ↗Rabindranath Tagore
Poetry, songs, novels, stories, drama, essays and educational thought, including Gitanjali, Gora, The Home and the World and Gitabitan.
Find historical editions ↗Ramana Maharshi
Who Am I?, Upadeśa Sāram, Forty Verses on Reality, recorded conversations and teachings centred on ātma-vicāra, or self-enquiry.
Sri Ramanasramam ↗Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Satyarth Prakash, Vedic commentaries, social and religious reform writings, debates and institutional documents associated with the Arya Samaj.
Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Indian Philosophy, The Hindu View of Life, An Idealist View of Life, Eastern Religions and Western Thought and studies of Tagore.
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Essays on Indian art, symbolism, aesthetics, traditional society and metaphysics, including The Dance of Śiva and Hinduism and Buddhism.
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
Śrīmad Bhagavad Gītā Rahasya, Orion, The Arctic Home in the Vedas, speeches, journalism and political writings.
Dharampal
The Beautiful Tree, Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century, Civil Disobedience and Indian Tradition and archival studies of Indian society.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
Novels, essays and religious-cultural writings including Anandamath, Devi Chaudhurani, Kapalkundala and Krishna Charitra.
Find historical editions ↗Subramania Bharati
Poetry, songs, prose and journalism on devotion, freedom, social reform, Tamil identity and cultural renewal.
Swami Sivananda
Extensive instructional works on Vedānta, yoga, devotion, ethics, meditation and spiritual practice.
Divine Life Society books ↗Acharyas and interpreters
Śrī Rāmānuja
Śrī Bhāṣya, Gītā Bhāṣya, Vedārthasaṅgraha, Vedāntadīpa and devotional prose associated with the Śrī Vaiṣṇava tradition.
Śrī Madhvācārya
Brahma-sūtra, Upaniṣad and Bhagavad Gītā commentaries, independent treatises and works foundational to the Dvaita tradition.
Abhinavagupta
Tantrāloka, Tantrasāra, Abhinavabhāratī, Īśvarapratyabhijñā-vimarśinī and writings on rasa, poetics, Tantra and non-dual Śaivism.
Śrī Narayana Guru
Ātmopadeśa Śatakam, Daiva Daśakam, philosophical poems, devotional works and writings associated with Kerala’s social and spiritual renaissance.
Kanchi Mahaswami
Recorded talks collected in Deivathin Kural and English selections commonly titled Hindu Dharma, addressing Veda, temple, custom, ethics and society.
Swami Chinmayananda
Bhagavad Gītā and Upaniṣad commentaries, lectures and practical introductions to Vedānta. Modern editions remain protected.
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Bhagavad Gītā, Bhāgavata Purāṇa and Caitanya-caritāmṛta translations and commentaries. Only authorised Bhaktivedanta Book Trust sources should be linked.
Bhaktivedanta Book Trust ↗Paramahansa Yogananda
Autobiography of a Yogi, lectures, lessons, poetry and spiritual commentaries. Edition and territorial rights require verification.
Historians and civilisational scholarship
R. C. Majumdar
Studies of ancient India, the freedom movement, cultural history and the multi-volume History and Culture of the Indian People.
Sir Jadunath Sarkar
Detailed archival histories of Aurangzeb, Shivaji, Mughal administration and the eighteenth-century transition.
P. V. Kane
The monumental multi-volume History of Dharmaśāstra, examining legal, ritual and social literature across centuries.
K. M. Munshi
Historical novels, cultural essays and institution-building associated with Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and the Somnath restoration.
Radhakumud Mookerji
Studies of ancient Indian education, political thought, maritime activity, Chandragupta Maurya and national integration.
Sita Ram Goel
Historical and polemical writings on religious encounters, historiography and Indian public life. Presented with full publication context.
Ram Swarup
Works on Hindu thought, religious pluralism, language and twentieth-century ideological debates.
Meenakshi Jain
Studies of medieval India, sacred geography, historical memory and contested public narratives. Current works remain under copyright.
Lokmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar
Devi Ahilyabai Holkar stands among the most consequential rulers of eighteenth-century India. Governing the Holkar domains from 1767 to 1795, she combined administrative attention, judicial accessibility, commercial stewardship and public works with an unusually wide programme of sacred and civic patronage. Her political centre at Maheshwar became a court, town, textile centre and place of learning on the Narmada.
Her memory extends across India because her endowments, restorations and facilities connected distant pilgrimage landscapes—from Kashi to the western and southern sacred geographies. This collection presents her as a ruler and institution-builder, not merely as a donor attached to individual monuments.
Rulership and public justice
Accounts of her reign emphasise accessible governance, revenue administration, dispute resolution and attention to cultivators, merchants and local institutions. Claims are assessed through correspondence, state records and later biography.
A capital of culture and craft
Maheshwar joined fort, palace, temple, ghats and commercial life. Its weaving traditions became closely associated with Holkar patronage and the continuing identity of Maheshwari textiles.
Śrī Kashi Vishwanath
The present Kashi Vishwanath temple is closely associated with Ahilyabai Holkar’s reconstruction in the late eighteenth century, a defining intervention in the city’s sacred architecture.
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Temples, ghats, wells, rest houses and endowments associated with her patronage linked pilgrimage with water, shelter, access and durable civic infrastructure.
Authority in a changing century
Her reign offers an essential case study in female sovereignty, dynastic legitimacy and statecraft during the political transformations of eighteenth-century India.
Record, biography and commemoration
Administrative documents, inscriptions, architectural evidence, Marathi materials, regional memory and later biographies illuminate different parts of her life; no single source should carry the whole account.
From the Upaniṣads to modern India
Gārgī Vācaknavī
Philosophical interlocutor in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, remembered for rigorous questioning on the ground of reality.
Maitreyī
Central to celebrated discussions of self, immortality, knowledge and the limits of possession in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad.
Āṇḍāḷ
Tiruppāvai and Nācciyār Tirumoḻi, foundational works of Tamil Śrī Vaiṣṇava devotion.
Akka Mahadevi
Vachanas of radical devotion, renunciation and union with Chennamallikarjuna.
Lal Ded
Mystical vakhs transmitted through oral and manuscript traditions across Kashmir.
Mīrābāī
Devotional songs to Krishna preserved through multiple regional, oral and textual traditions.
Sister Nivedita
The Web of Indian Life, Kali the Mother, education writings, letters and reflections on Indian art and nationality.
Mahadevi Varma
Poetry, memoir, essays and prose central to twentieth-century Hindi literature.
Amrita Pritam
Poetry, fiction and memoir addressing love, displacement, Partition and women’s interior lives. Modern works remain protected.
Mahasweta Devi
Fiction and reportage on Adivasi communities, exploitation, resistance and historical memory. Modern works remain protected.
Lokmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar
Eighteenth-century ruler of Malwa remembered for administration, public works, pilgrimage infrastructure and restoration or patronage of sacred sites including Kashi Vishwanath. She is included as a historical leader and cultural patron, not as an author.
Regional literary anchors
This is a starting map rather than a closed canon. Each language contains many traditions, genres and communities beyond the representative names below.
Ilango Adigal · Kamban · Bharathidasan
Silappatikāram; the Tamil Rāmāvatāram; modern poetry, social thought and cultural renewal.
Basavanna · Kuvempu
Vachana literature, ethics and devotion; modern Kannada poetry, drama and the epic Sri Ramayana Darshanam.
Nannaya · Tikkana · Pothana
The Telugu Mahābhārata tradition and Pothana’s Telugu rendering of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa.
Thunchath Ezhuthachan · Vallathol
The Adhyātma Rāmāyaṇam Kilippāṭṭu, Malayalam literary formation and modern poetic-cultural renewal.
Jñāneśvar · Tukaram · Samarth Ramdas
Jñāneśvarī, abhangas, devotional and ethical works across major Marathi bhakti traditions.
Michael Madhusudan Dutt · Sarat Chandra · Bibhutibhushan
Epic innovation, the social novel and literary representations of rural Bengal, modernity and human relationship.
Śaṅkaradeva · Lakshminath Bezbaroa
Ekasarana devotional literature, drama and music; modern Assamese prose, satire and cultural identity.
Sarala Dasa · Fakir Mohan Senapati
The Odia Mahābhārata tradition and the development of modern Odia fiction and social realism.
Bharatendu · Maithili Sharan Gupt · Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
Modern Hindi prose and theatre, national poetry, epic imagination and cultural-political verse.
Sri Aurobindo Reading Room
A structured route through Sri Aurobindo’s philosophy, Integral Yoga, poetry, interpretations of Indian civilisation, political journalism, social thought, drama, translations, correspondence and autobiographical writings. The authoritative Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo is a 37-volume library edition produced by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram.
Consult the Ashram’s official writings directory ↗ View the complete 37-volume catalogue at SABDA ↗
The Life Divine
His major philosophical exposition of consciousness, involution, evolution and the possibility of a transformed earthly life.
Official editions at SABDA ↗The Synthesis of Yoga
A wide-ranging account of the yogas of knowledge, works and love, and their integration in a larger spiritual discipline.
Official editions ↗Essays Divine and Human
Philosophical writings on knowledge, consciousness, nature, humanity and spiritual evolution.
Search the official catalogue ↗Essays in Philosophy and Yoga
Studies extending his treatment of mind, supermind, rebirth, transformation and the methods of yoga.
Search the official catalogue ↗Record of Yoga
A documentary record of Sri Aurobindo’s own yogic practice and evolving terminology, requiring careful contextual reading.
Official works directory ↗Letters on Yoga
Detailed responses on practice, psychology, consciousness, difficulties, relationships and transformation.
Browse official editions ↗The Secret of the Veda
A symbolic and psychological reading of Vedic hymns and their language of sacrifice, gods and illumination.
Official catalogue ↗Hymns to the Mystic Fire
Translations and studies centred on Agni and the spiritual symbolism of the Rigvedic hymns.
Official catalogue ↗Vedic and Philological Studies
Research notes, translations and reflections on language, Vedic interpretation and early Indian thought.
Official works directory ↗Isha Upanishad
Translation and commentary on action, renunciation, unity and the relation between the One and the world.
Official catalogue ↗Kena and Other Upanishads
Translations, commentaries and related writings on several Upaniṣadic texts.
Official catalogue ↗Essays on the Gita
A sustained interpretation of works, knowledge, devotion, dharma and spiritual action in the Bhagavad Gītā.
Official catalogue ↗The Renaissance in India
Essays on India’s cultural spirit, renewal and relation to modernity, issued with A Defence of Indian Culture.
Official catalogue ↗A Defence of Indian Culture
A response to colonial-era criticism and an argument for the depth and continuity of Indian civilisation.
Official catalogue ↗The Human Cycle
A study of psychological and spiritual forces shaping social development and collective life.
Official catalogue ↗The Ideal of Human Unity
An inquiry into nationhood, empire, international organisation and the possibilities of human unity.
Official catalogue ↗Bande Mataram
Editorials and political writings from the nationalist period, indispensable but historically situated documents.
Official works directory ↗Karmayogin
Essays connecting nationalism, dharma, education, culture and spiritual action.
Official works directory ↗Savitri
Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, his epic poem of love, death, destiny and spiritual transformation.
Official editions ↗Collected Poems
Shorter poems across successive phases of his literary and spiritual development.
Official editions ↗Collected Plays and Stories
Plays, dramatic fragments and fictional work reflecting classical, romantic and historical interests.
Official works directory ↗Translations
Renderings and adaptations from Sanskrit, Bengali and other literary traditions.
Official works directory ↗The Future Poetry
A major work of literary criticism on poetic rhythm, inspiration, language and the future possibilities of poetry.
Official catalogue ↗Letters on Poetry and Art
Letters on poetic craft, inspiration, metre, criticism, art and the work of individual poets.
Official catalogue ↗Early Cultural Writings
Early essays on ethics, literature, education, culture and the formation of a distinctive intellectual outlook.
Official works directory ↗Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit
Original writings, translations and related materials in languages beyond his principal English corpus.
Official works directory ↗Autobiographical Notes
Notes, corrections and writings of historical interest concerning his life, politics, yoga and public representation.
Official edition ↗Letters on Himself and the Ashram
Letters on his outer and inner life, the Ashram, disciples and the practical setting of Integral Yoga.
Official edition ↗Sanātana Literature
Explore a structured bibliographic map of the Vedas, principal Upaniṣads, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Bhagavad Gītā, Mahāpurāṇas, Vedāṅgas, Darśanas, Dharma literature, Āgamas, Tantra, Bhakti and regional traditions.