9 Best historical books like Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph

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Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

By: Tony Joseph

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South …

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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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  • historical
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • 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. One Part Woman

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages… read more

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  • indian literature
"There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together."

-பெருமாள் முருகன், One Part Woman

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3. The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore

By: Manu S. Pillai

4.28

Format: 1137 pages, Kindle Edition

In 1498, when Vasco da Gama set foot in Kerala looking for Christians and spices, he unleashed a wa… read more

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  • history
  • historical
  • politics
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  • nonfiction
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4. Asura: Tale Of The Vanquished, The Story of Ravana and His People

By: Anand Neelakantan

3.70

Format: 504 pages, Paperback

The epic tale of victory and defeat… The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. … read more

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  • indian literature
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5. 1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

By: Sanjaya Baru

4.33

Format: 308 pages,

P. V. Narasimha Rao (or PV as he was popularly known) has been widely praised for enabling the econ… read more

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  • politics
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6. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

By: William Dalrymple

4.24

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more

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  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • indian literature
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7. 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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  • historical
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
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8. பொன்னியின் செல்வன் [Ponniyin Selvan]

By: Kalki

3.83

Format: None pages,

Ponniyin Selvan, authored by Kalki Krishnamurthy, is a brilliant set of five volumes. It is a histo… read more

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  • historical
  • indian literature

9. Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India

By: Vinay Sitapati

4.57

Format: 201 pages,

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10. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By: Alex von Tunzelmann

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

A re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independenc… read more

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11. ஒரு மனிதன் ஒரு வீடு ஒரு உலகம் [oru manidhan oru vidu oru ulagam]

By: Jayakanthan

4.11

Format: 40 pages, Hardcover

ent uur,perrrroor, ennnnnn caati,ennnnnn innnm ennnrru etuvum teriyaat,atu prrrrik kvlaiyum kolllla… read more

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12. Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give hi… read more

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13. The Annihilation of Caste

By: B.R. Ambedkar

3.50

Format: 200 pages, Paperback

"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more

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14. A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India

By: Josy Joseph

4.15

Format: None pages,

'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting f… read more

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15. The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati

By: Michel Danino

4.17

Format: 510 pages, Paperback

Michel Danino was a French national who left France in 1977, to come to India and has since then li… read more

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16. My Gita

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

4.11

Format: 14 pages, Paperback

In My Gita, acclaimed mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik demystifies The Bhagavad Gita for the contempor… read more

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17. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past

By: David Reich

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human histo… read more

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  • science
  • history
  • evolution
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  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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18. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

By: S. Jaishankar

3.96

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."

-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

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19. Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas

By: Anirudh Kanisetti

4.23

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • indian literature
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20. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • anthropology
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21. 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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  • indian literature
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. War Minus the Shooting

By: Mike Marqusee

4.50

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-… read more

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

23. 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
"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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24. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

By: Tony Joseph

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South … read more

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  • evolution
  • ancient history
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • prehistory
  • anthropology
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25. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

By: Peggy Mohan

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if … read more

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  • indian literature
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"In a grandiose sweep that demolished history itself, Sanskrit was put forward as the ancestor of not just this brand new ‘Shuddh’ Hindi, but the ‘Mother of all languages’. We still find otherwise tho…"

-Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

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26. Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji

By: Manu S. Pillai

3.93

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Manu S. Pillai narrates the story of the Deccan from the close of the thirteenth century to the daw… read more

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  • historical
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  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
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27. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

By: Manu S. Pillai

3.96

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • indian literature
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28. Girl in White Cotton

By: Avni Doshi

3.35

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Antara has never understood her mother Tara's decisions - walking out on her marriage to follow a g… read more

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29. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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30. Coromandel: A Personal History of South India

By: Charles Allen

3.85

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more… read more

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  • history
  • historical
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31. I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story

By: R. Ashwin

4.24

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Ashwin is arguably the greatest match-winner for in Test cricket. The fastest man to 300 Test wicke… read more

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15 must-read history books like Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph

Transform Your Habits

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

Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore

Manu S. Pillai

4.28

Transform Your Habits

1991: How P. V. Narasimha Rao Made History

Sanjaya Baru

4.33

Transform Your Habits

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

William Dalrymple

4.24

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15 must-read history books like Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas by Anirudh Kanisetti

Transform Your Habits

Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

William Dalrymple

4.34

Transform Your Habits

The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore

Manu S. Pillai

4.28

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Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond

William Dalrymple , Anita Anand

4.04

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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.28

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