19 must-read nonfiction books like A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State by Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

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A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State

By: Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

‘A clear look into India’s political, social and economic history unobstructed by decades of agenda…

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

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

4.28

Format: 346 pages, Hardcover

Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-ki… read more

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2. Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud

By: Arun Shourie

3.86

Format: None pages,

Shourie has the anecdotal reasoning of Nirad Chaudhuri married to the writing style of Robert Ludlu… read more

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3. 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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4. 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)

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5. 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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6. 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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"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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7. 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

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8. Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye: My Life Story

By: K.J.S. 'Tiny' Dhillon

4.38

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

He has extensively served in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and the North-East of India. He has the distinct… read more

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9. India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation (Bharat Trilogy #2)

By: J. Sai Deepak

4.63

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward fro… read more

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10. Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

By: Vikram Sampath

4.72

Format: 600 pages, Hardcover

Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political… read more

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11. 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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12. 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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13. 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

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14. Value Investing and Behavioral Finance: Insights into Indian Stock Market Realities

By: Parag Parikh

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

"When others are greedy be fearful and when others are fearful be greedy" - ill-timed bouts of gree… read more

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15. A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State

By: Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'

4.17

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

‘A clear look into India’s political, social and economic history unobstructed by decades of agenda… read more

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16. Waiting for Shiva: Unearthing the Truth of Kashi’s Gyan Vapi

By: Vikram Sampath

4.68

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Few places in the world carry the heavy burden of history as effortlessly as Kashi, or Varanasi, ha… read more

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17. Mahabharata Unravelled: Lesser-Known Facets of a Well-Known History

By: Ami Ganatra

4.38

Format: 408 pages, Paperback

Millennia have passed since the dharma yudhha of the cousins shook the land of Bharata. But this hi… read more

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18. 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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19. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

By: Rajiv Malhotra

4.30

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

Artificial Intelligence is only partially visible, just like an iceberg. To understand it fully, we… read more

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"Deep learning in machines is resulting in shallow knowledge in humans—an irony indeed. Cognitive skills like memory and attention span are atrophying, even as knowledge, authority and agency are bein…"

-Rajiv Malhotra, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power: 5 Battlegrounds

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20. Invaders and Infidels : From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions (Book 1)

By: Sandeep Balakrishna

4.40

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale… read more

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21. Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0

By: Rajiv Malhotra

4.26

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

Snakes in the Ganga unveils uncomfortable truths concerning India’s vulnerabilities: Intense warfa… read more

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4.20

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