English protocolonial and colonial discourses constructed India across multiple fields in the 1600–1947 period. These discourses determined and were determined by various concerns, necessities, and anxieties, and documented extensively by English administrators, statesmen, traders, wives of the officials, soldiers, reform workers, scientists, physicians—in short, a diverse variety of English men and women who spent several years in India, or sometimes merely passed through it. The imperial archive on India—supposedly one of the largest in the world—has been examined by postcolonial scholars for its discursive constitutions of exploration and discovery, administrative control and authority, the civilizational mission, militarism, and the everyday-ness of (English) life in India, among others. The archive, which begins with letters written by factors (as the representatives of the East India Company were called), traders, and officers of the English East India Company, and which also includes a number of literary and cultural texts that emerge from the late 18th century, has provided the foundations for the extensive postcolonial scrutiny of English representations of India, inspired in part by Said 1994 (cited under English “Writing” of India). The unpacking of the imperial archive—the English representations of India—takes the form of specific studies, such as the botanical-zoological surveys of India by collectors and scientists, colonial ethnography-anthropology texts on the Indian peoples, translations and analysis of Indian languages and literary texts by translators and linguistics, the biomedical tracts that mapped a landscape of disease, or the reformer’s altruistic-authoritarian commentary on India’s perceived barbarism, to name a few domains in English colonial writings on India. Colonial discourse studies, to which this bibliography provides a short entry point, is as diverse as the representations it scrutinizes, and the texts inventoried here demonstrate how colonial discourse not only described the “object” (India), but actively, materially, constructed it in significant ways that enabled multiple imperial purposes and functions: exploration, documentation, “improvement,” and control.