Book Recommendations from @TIinExile from his recent interview: with pdfs where I found them or amazon links

1. The Wonder That Was India by Arthur Llewellyn Basham

https://rahmaneha.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/the-wonder-that-was-india-a-l-basham-part1.pdf

2. History of Indian Buddhism from Sakyamuni to Early Mahayana by Hirakawa, Akira

http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/A%20History%20of%20Indian%20Buddhism_From%20Sakyamuni%20to%20Early%20Mahayana_Akira.pdf

3. The Indian Ocean Paperback – 1 January 2020
by Michael Pearson

https://www.amazon.in/Indian-Ocean-Michael-Pearson/dp/1138895911/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

4. A History of South India by K. A. Nilakantha Sastri

https://ia800401.us.archive.org/18/items/K.A.NilakantaSastriBooks/K.%20A.%20Nilakanta%20Sastri/A-History-of-South-India.pdf

5. King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India by Patrick Olivelle is an annotated translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra

https://www.amazon.in/Governance-Ancient-India-Kautilyas-Arthasastra/dp/B00XWXPKOI (not currently available - if anyone finds a link, please share in the comments!)

Link to Arthasastra https://twitter.com/freeindic/status/1305154855984459776?s=20

Link to indian ocean: thank you! https://twitter.com/rampadiya/status/1305174835580956672

if you're interested, more book recommendations (from me): https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3ODQ5NjA5NTg4MjU5NTIz?igshid=yjzzxxyfdf9t&story_media_id=2382733111004894515