15 must-read nonfiction books like South vs North: India’s Great Divide by Nilakantan RS

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South vs North: India’s Great Divide

By: Nilakantan RS

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India …

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1. Half a Billion Rising: The Emergence of the Indian Woman

By: Anirudha Dutta

3.74

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

A brilliant examination of the lives of half a billion people who are of immense importance to the … read more

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2. 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
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
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3. Why Loiter?: Women and Risk on Mumbai Streets

By: Shilpa Ranade , Shilpa Phadke , Sameera Khan

3.70

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction

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

By: Vinay Sitapati

4.57

Format: 201 pages,

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5. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty

By: Abhijit V. Banerjee , Esther Duflo

4.07

Format: 248 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award Billions of g… read more

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6. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • history
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7. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • economics
"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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8. 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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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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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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  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • economics
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10. Gun Island

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.63

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns De… read more

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  • india
"That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"... there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

"Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans."

-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island

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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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
"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

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

12. 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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  • india
  • indian literature
  • economics
  • 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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13. Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future

By: Raghuram G. Rajan

4.08

Format: 351 pages, Kindle Edition

Where is India going today? Is it surging forward, having just overtaken the United Kingdom to beco… read more

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  • politics
  • economics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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14. South vs North: India’s Great Divide

By: Nilakantan RS

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India … read more

Similar categories in Nilakantan RS's South vs North: India’s Great Divide book and Nilakantan RS's South vs North: India’s Great Divide

  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
Cover of Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World by Ha-Joon Chang

15. Edible Economics: A Hungry Economist Explains the World

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.84

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Edible Economics brings the sort of creative fusion that spices up a great kitchen to the often too… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • economics
  • society
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16. The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation

By: Girish Kuber

4.37

Format: 276 pages, Hardcover

The Tatas is the story of one of India's leading business families. It starts in the nineteenth cen… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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17. Ambedkar: A Life

By: Shashi Tharoor

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Babasaheb Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, MA, MSc, PhD, DSc, DLitt, Bar-at-Law, is today among the most rev… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
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18. 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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  • indian literature
  • india
Cover of Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras by Radhika  Iyengar

19. Fire On The Ganges: Life Among the Dead in Banaras

By: Radhika Iyengar

4.20

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

'In the land of the dead, there is life all around.' Banaras, Uttar Pradesh. A place where life … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
Cover of Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods by Sreenivasan Jain

20. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods

By: Sreenivasan Jain

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
Cover of Its Not For Nothing That We Stand For Something: Basic Intellectual Self-Defense for Hindu Parents by Maragatham .

21. Its Not For Nothing That We Stand For Something: Basic Intellectual Self-Defense for Hindu Parents

By: Maragatham .

4.63

Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition

Christians believe in the Bible. Muslims believe in the Quran. Liberals believe in Liberty. Communi… read more

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9 Best history books like South vs North: India’s Great Divide by Nilakantan RS

Transform Your Habits

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Manu S. Pillai

4.28

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Morgan Housel

4.19

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The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

S. Jaishankar

3.96

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Anirudh Kanisetti

4.23

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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan

William Dalrymple

4.34

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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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