False Allies: India's Maharajahs in The Age of Ravi Varma
By: Manu S. Pillai
3.79
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
India?s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Beje…
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1. ബാല്യകാലസഖി | Balyakalasakhi
By: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
4.23
Format: 325 pages,
The childhood romance between neighbours blossoms into passionate love during adolescence. Majeed's… read more
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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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3. The Shadow Lines
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families--one Eng… read more
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4. പാത്തുമ്മായുടെ ആട് | Pathummayude Aadu
By: Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Pathummayude Aadu is one of the most popular works by Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. It has a long forewo… read more
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5. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee
4.21
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
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6. എന്റെ കഥ | Ente Katha
By: Kamala Suraiyya Das , Madhavikutty
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Kamala Suraiya, better known as Kamala Das, is a well-known female Indian writer writing in English… read more
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7. Courage and Conviction: An Autobiography
By: V.K. Singh , None
3.87
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Courage and Conviction (Hardcover) General V. K. Singh served in the Indian Army for forty-two year… read more
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8. ഫ്രാൻസിസ് ഇട്ടിക്കോര | Francis Itty Cora
By: T.D. Ramakrishnan
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Francis Ittykkora, a 15th century Trader from Kunnamkulam and his adventures form the core of the n… read more
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9. Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
By: Alice Albinia
4.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across… read more
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10. രണ്ടാമൂഴം | Randamoozham
By: M.T. Vasudevan Nair
5.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Randamoozham is the masterpiece of Jnanpith winning writer M. T. Vasudevan Nair. It was translated … read more
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11. Chronicle of a Corpse Bearer
By: Cyrus Mistry
3.06
Format: 405 pages, Hardcover
At the very edge of its many interlocking worlds, the city of Bombay conceals a near invisible comm… read more
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12. 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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13. 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)
14. Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.63
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
The official narrative of India's freedom struggle has almost entirely been about the non-violent p… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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19. 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
20. 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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21. 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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22. Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History
By: Vikram Sampath
4.52
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat, who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But Lo… read more
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23. Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History
By: Meenakshi Jain
4.77
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
This work examines the medieval response to temple destruction and image desecration. While temples… read more
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24. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
By: Vikram Sampath
4.58
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in I… read more
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"In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the …"-Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
25. False Allies: India's Maharajahs in The Age of Ravi Varma
By: Manu S. Pillai
3.79
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
India?s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Beje… read more
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26. Let's Talk Money
By: Monika Halan
4.44
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
We work hard to earn our money. But regardless of how much we earn, the money worry never goes away… read more
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27. Diamonds in the Dust: Consistent Compounding for Extraordinary Wealth Creation
By: Saurabh Mukherjea
4.10
Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition
Over the last few years, there has been a growing realization among Indians that their life's savin… read more
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28. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
By: Richard M. Eaton
4.31
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self… read more
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"[D]uring the years 1219-21 Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire in eastern Asia, burst into western Asia. Offended by the insolent behaviour of the same ruler of Khwarazm who a few years ea…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"In addition, Sultan Iltumish, for all his rhetoric of being India's sole legitimate Muslim ruler, continued to issue coins with the old bull-and-horseman motif and a Sanskritized form of his name and…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"[T]he demonization of Mahmud [of Ghazni] and the portrayal of his raid on Somnath as an assault on Indian religion by Muslim invaders dates only from the early 1840s. In 1842 the British East Indian …"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
"['A]lamgir [Aurangzeb] came to formulate a very different model of sovereignty for himself and for the empire he ruled. In this new dispensation, the kingdom would be governed not by a charismatic, s…"-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765
29. Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
By: Ira Mukhoty
4.27
Format: 276 pages, Hardcover
In 1526 a Timurid warrior-scholar rides into Delhi to build an empire. With him ride his wives, his… read more
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30. India Moving: A History of Migration
By: Chinmay Tumbe
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala,… read more
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31. Quarterlife
By: Devika Rege
3.86
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
India’s literary novel of the year—an enthralling, award-winning debut from a “blazingly original v… read more
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"Now he gets the value of the everyday stuff in the Peshwa museums. What is the culture of a place or people other than this - how we lived and how we died? What is an identity butt an accretion of al…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"Chitra Kaki's gestures are a result of ritual, house pride and belonging, all of which precede love, and this thought makes his joy in the modak more acute. ...Their generation has seen more change t…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"At her final dinner in Imperial Heights, she notices afresh all that a week has made familiar: the silk runner, the brass casseroles, and the many little bowls on her plate that Sita, already turning…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
"Dusk. They park at the edge of a wide, sandy bank. Omkar hums Shanth wahate Krishna-mai. He says the lyrics mean that a truly great person is as quiet as the river Krishna. It's the same river at Men…"-Devika Rege, Quarterlife
