The book "golden higher trigonometry" has been designed to meet the requirements of students of degree and honours classes of various universities. It will also be found useful by the students preparing for various competitive examinations. The author has more than four decades of experience of teaching mathematics to graduate classes and has first hand experience of problems and difficulties faced by students. The book has been written with the conviction that a good book needs minimum guidance from the teacher and is self-sufficient for clarity of basic concepts. The author has endeavoured to present the fundamental concepts in a comprehensive and lucid manner.