"While maintaining his public profile as a judge and scholar of British Indian law, Woodroffe was also a private student of the tantras, who published a huge body of texts and translations and thus pioneered the modern academic study of Tantra in the West. Yet Woodroffe was also an apologist, seeming to have bent over backward to defend the Tantras against their many critics and to prove that they represent a noble, pure, and ethical philosophical system in basic accord with the Vedas and Ved?nta."

"This is quite important to know, for here we have a writer on an Indian esoteric system taking a name imbued with western esotericism. The name at any rate seems to hint at initiations and the possession of occult secrets. The Arthurian legends are bound up with the story of the Holy Grail and its quest. This was a symbol of esoteric wisdom, especially to Theosophists who appropriated the legend. Anyone who named himself after King Arthur or the mystic isle of Avalon would be thought to be identifying himself with occultism, in Theosophists' eyes."

• Shakti and Shakta, ISBN 818598803X. (1918)
• Principles of Tantra (2 vols) ISBN 8185988145.
• Kamakalavilasa
• Introduction to the Tantra ??stra, ISBN 8185988110.
• Tantra of the Great Liberation (Mah?nirv?na Tantra), ISBN 0897440234 (1913).
• Hymns to the Goddess (1913)
• Hymn to Kali: Karpuradi Stotra (1922)
• The World as Power, ISBN 1406777064.
• The Garland of Letters. ISBN 8185988129.
• Bharati Shakti: Essays and Addresses on Indian Culture
• India: Culture and Society
• Is India Civilized? Essays on Indian Culture
• The Serpent Power. ISBN 8185988056.

• Shakti and Shakta, by John Woodroffe, Published by Forgotten Books, 1910. ISBN 160620145X.
• Hymn to Kali:Karpuradi Stotra, by Sir John Woodroffe. Published by Forgotten Books. 1922. ISBN 1606201476.
• Hymns to the Goddess, Translated by John George Woodroffe, Ellen Elizabeth (Grimson) Woodroffe, Published by Forgotten Books, 1952 (org 1913). ISBN 1606201468.
• Mahanirvana Tantra, By Arthur Avalon, 1913, Published by Forgotten Books.ISBN 1606201441.
• Sir John Woodroffe, Tantra And Bengal- An Indian Soul In A European Body?, by Kathleen Taylor. Routledge, 2001, ISBN 070071345X.