6 Best history books like The Cases That India Forgot by Chintan Chandrachud

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The Cases That India Forgot

By: Chintan Chandrachud

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a state Legislature imprison a critic and summon a high Court judge to appear before it? Are re…

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Cover of India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

1. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
"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

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2. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
Cover of Wings of Fire: An Autobiography by A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari

3. Wings of Fire: An Autobiography

By: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam , Arun Tiwari

3.77

Format: None pages,

Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil N… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction

4. What Not to Do If You Turn Invisible

By: Ross Welford

4.09

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

From the author of the unforgettable bestseller TIME TRAVELLING WITH A HAMSTER comes another surpri… read more

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5. Bankerupt

By: Ravi Subramanian

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A university is an institution for higher education and research. It can also be a place where acad… read more

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6. An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions

By: Amartya Sen , Jean Drèze

4.45

Format: 122 pages, Hardcover

From two of India's leading economists, Jean Dreze (Hunger and Public Action) and Nobel Prize-winne… read more

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7. 10 Judgements That Changed India

By: Zia Mody

3.21

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

Here are the Supreme Court of India's ten pivotal judgements that have transformed Indian democracy… read more

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8. Independence

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

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9. 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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  • politics
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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

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10. The Bangalore Detectives Club (Bangalore Detectives Club, #1)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.62

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

The first in a charming, joyful cozy crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing de… read more

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  • india
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11. The Archer

By: Paulo Coelho

3.66

Format: 131 pages, Hardcover

In The Archer we meet Tetsuya, a man once famous for his prodigious gift with a bow and arrow but w… read more

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12. Sea Prayer

By: Khaled Hosseini

4.10

Format: 48 pages, Kindle Edition

A short, powerful, illustrated book written by Khaled Hosseini in response to the current refugee c… read more

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"I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"I wish you remembered Homs as I do, Marwan."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"All of us inpatient for the sunrise, all of us in dread of it. All of us in search of home."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

"You know a bomb crater can be made into a swimming hole. You have learned dark blood is better news than bright."

-Khaled Hosseini, Sea Prayer

Cover of Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya

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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  • nonfiction
  • india
"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

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14. The Cases That India Forgot

By: Chintan Chandrachud

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a state Legislature imprison a critic and summon a high Court judge to appear before it? Are re… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • law
  • indian literature
  • social
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15. The Last Queen

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.09

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

WINNER of the 2022 INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN AWARD for BEST FICTION OF THE YEAR! … read more

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  • india
"Adoration is a powerful intoxicant."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

"Fame: it’s a drug more potent than opium"

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

"People revered his father as the Lion of Punjab, but his mother is the one they should have called Lioness."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Last Queen

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16. nenu brahmanandam

By: Brahmanandam

4.14

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

అంతా దేవుడి దయ. అంతా ఆయనే. అన్నీ ఆయన చేస్తున్నవే అనుకోవడం ఆస్తికత్వం ఇదంతా నా కష్టార్జితం. నా స్వయంకృషి. నా… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. The Most Precious of Cargoes

By: Jean-Claude Grumberg

4.18

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

Set during the height of World War II, a powerful and unsettling tale about a woodcutter and his wi… read more

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18. Pakistan: At the Helm

By: Tilak Devasher

3.86

Format: 412 pages, Kindle Edition

Fascinating vignettes about the men and woman who ruled PakistanWhat did Muhammad Ali Jinnah say wh… read more

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  • history
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Cover of The Case that Shook India: The Verdict That Led to the Emergency by Prashant Bhushan

19. The Case that Shook India: The Verdict That Led to the Emergency

By: Prashant Bhushan

4.03

Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition

On 12 June 1975, for the first time in independent India's history, the election of a prime ministe… read more

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20. Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey

By: K. Hariharan

3.62

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

In many ways, Kamal Haasan is unique. One of the greatest actors India has ever produced, he has us… read more

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21. Over the Rainbow: India's Queer Heroes

By: Aditya Tiwari

4.00

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

In the last twenty-five years, India has seen great leaps in its LGBTQ+ movement. Today it is no lo… read more

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6 must-read politics books like The Cases That India Forgot by Chintan Chandrachud

Transform Your Habits

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Transform Your Habits

An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Transform Your Habits

India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

J. Sai Deepak

4.46

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The Cases That India Forgot

Chintan Chandrachud

4.15

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The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown (Baby Ganesh Agency Investigation, #2)

Vaseem Khan

4.05

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The Unexpected Inheritance of Inspector Chopra

Vaseem Khan

3.70

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The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star

Vaseem Khan

4.08

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Close to Death (Hawthorne & Horowitz, #5)

Anthony Horowitz

4.18

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