9 sources cited across the India corpus — aggregated from all document Primary Sources Consulted blocks, deduplicated by title prefix.
This document is a synthesis of secondary-source bibliography. The works enumerated in §§2–8 below constitute the canon. The document's analytical contribution is the organisation, the inter-author commentary on contested readings (with explicit attention to the named-attribution discipline that applies to India's many sharply-contested topics), and the identification of open questions.
The bibliographic frame is built from:
The cumulative bibliographies of the principal India-studies surveys — Khilnani (*The Idea of India* 1997 / 2012 anniversary edition), Guha (*India after Gandhi* 2007 / 2nd ed. 2017), Mehta (*The Burden of Democracy* 2003), Jaffrelot (*Modi's India* 2021) — checked against each other for canon convergence.
The Association for Asian Studies (AAS) South Asia section's *Journal of Asian Studies* and the *Modern Asian Studies* (Cambridge) review essays from 2010–2024.
The Centre for Policy Research (CPR), the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS), the Observer Research Foundation (ORF), the Carnegie India / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace South Asia outputs, and the Brookings India / Centre for Social and Economic Progress (CSEP, the post-2020 successor) publication archives.
The Indian Statistical Institute, the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) historical-research outputs, and the post-2014 Niti Aayog publication archive.
The Indian academic legal-scholarship outputs of the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), the Jindal Global Law School, and the *Indian Constitutional Law Review* journal.
The Indian-language scholarly substrate including Hindi, Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam, Marathi, and Kannada outputs that the English-language canon partially gestures toward.
Where this document quotes specific assessments of a work's canonical position, those assessments are attributed by name to the reviewer or surveyor concerned.