Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.38
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this bac…
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1. The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
By: William Dalrymple
3.99
Format: 394 pages, Paperback
William Dalrymple has proved himself to be one of the most perceptive and enjoyable travel writers … read more
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"Hindu civilisation is the only great classical culture to survive intact from the ancient world, and at temples such as Madurai one can still catch glimpses of festivals and practices that were seen …"-William Dalrymple, The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
2. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.39
Format: 912 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more
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"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
3. The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)
By: Amish Tripathi
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of t… read more
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4. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
By: Katherine Frank
3.80
Format: None pages, Hardcover
On the morning of October 31, 1984, as she walked through her garden, smiling, with hands raised an… read more
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5. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
By: Chris Miller
4.44
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more
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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
6. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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7. Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
By: Anand Ranganathan
4.48
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must What kind… read more
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"The concept of justice is like memory. It keeps getting passed on until it is realised."-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
"To me, the mark of civilisation is this unquenchable thirst of man to demand justice for his ancestors; to correct a historical wrong. For that exemplifies a continuity; an idea, a memory that can ne…"-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
"And to those who now call this nation a Hindu Rashtra, run by religious zealots and fascists, to those I ask: In which theocratic state would religious zealots wait for half a millennium and even the…"-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)
8. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
By: J. Sai Deepak
4.46
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of Europea… read more
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"The spiritual character of the relationship between indigeneity and nature is an emotion that the coloniser can at best exoticise but can never relate to."-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"Rest of the world was not living in the Dark Ages before Pax Europaea or European Peace, and will certainly not plunge into ignorance and darkness after the demise of Pax Europaea. Therefore, it is t…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"Until a decolonial approach is employed by experts and ‘intellectuals’, we will continue to see the entrenchment of colonialised identities and fissures, which began with an anti-Brahmin slant but wh…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millenn…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
9. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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10. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
By: Josy Joseph
4.39
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
‘They were not expected to behave like the terrorists they were hunting. Even in the thickest fog o… read more
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11. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
By: Javier Blas
4.34
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or… read more
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"Little noticed and little scrutinised, the commodity traders have become essential cogs in the modern economy. Without them, petrol stations would run out of fuel, factories would grind to a halt and…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
"Most of us take for granted the ease with which we can fill up our cars, buy a new smartphone or order a cup of Colombian coffee. But underpinning almost all of our consumption is a frenetic internat…"-Javier Blas, The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
12. The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
By: Amish Tripathi
4.10
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga wa… read more
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"Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want"-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
"Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk."-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
"The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person."-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
"I don’t believe anything till I’ve seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn’t matter whether the theory is true or not."-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)
13. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
By: Shrayana Bhattacharya
4.29
Format: 384 pages, None
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
14. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.38
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this bac… read more
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15. Sanghi Who Never Went To A Shakha
By: Rahul Roushan
4.35
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
This is the journey of a person who hated the word ‘Sanghi’ but ended up happily adopting it as a l… read more
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16. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green
By: Henry Sanderson
4.12
Format: 304 pages, ebook
'A remarkably hopeful and useful book...The climate crisis leaves us no choice but to build a new w… read more
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17. The Network State: How To Start a New Country
By: Balaji S. Srinivasan
4.00
Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition
Technology has enabled us to start new companies, new communities, and new currencies. But can we u… read more
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18. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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19. How Prime Ministers Decide
By: Neerja Chowdhury
4.53
Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition
India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more
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20. We, The Citizens: Strengthening the Indian Republic
By: Khyati Pathak
4.47
Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition
… the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse. — Walt WhitmanWhat is a republic? How … read more
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21. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
By: Vijay Kelkar
4.22
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
As a $3-trillion economy, India is on her way to becoming an economic superpower. Between 1991 and … read more
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