Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.10
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
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1. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
2. 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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3. 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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4. Ice Station (Shane Schofield, #1)
By: Matthew Reilly
3.83
Format: 208 pages,
Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteo… read more
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5. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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"[T]he great, irreplaceable potentiality of fiction is that it makes possible the imagining of possibilities."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"[C]apitalist trade and industry cannot thrive without access to military and political power. State interventions have always been critical to its advancement."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"Where it concerns human beings, it is almost always true that the more anxiously we look for purity the more likely we are to come upon admixture and interbreeding."-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
"As an instrument of empowerment oil has been spectacularly effective in removing the levers of power from the reach of the populace. "No matter how many people take to the streets in massive marches,…"-Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
6. 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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7. What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
By: Michael J. Sandel
3.60
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for… read more
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8. Grant
By: Ron Chernow
4.40
Format: 80 pages, Hardcover
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefel… read more
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9. 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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10. The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
By: Sujata Massey
3.96
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India’s only female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murder… read more
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11. 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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12. Onam in a Nightie: Stories from a Kerala Quarantine
By: Anjana Menon
3.50
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
In India's tropical paradise, stands a town wrapped around a giant roundabout, where a canny careta… read more
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13. Tomb of Sand
By: Geetanjali Shree
3.70
Format: 739 pages, Paperback
An eighty-year-old woman slips into a deep depression at the death of her husband, then resurfaces … read more
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"Anything worth doing transcends borders."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"लगा मैं गयी तो लगा कि जा रही हूँ तो रोते हुए क्यों जाऊँ, हँसते हुए जाऊँगी ।"-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"Daughter. You love her. You fear her. Now you see her. Now you don't. All women, don't forget, are daughters."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
"That which is torn develops an increased capacity for insight and forbearance. A capacity to experience sensations that escape the notice of others."-Geetanjali Shree, Tomb of Sand
14. Brotherless Night
By: V.V. Ganeshananthan
4.46
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
In this searing novel, a courageous young woman tries to protect her dream of becoming a doctor as … read more
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15. Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
By: Kim Ghattas
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Black Wave is a paradigm-shifting recasting of the modern history of the Middle East, telling the l… read more
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"Beyond the headlines about war and death, the region is alive with music, art, books, theater, social entrepreneurship, advocacy, libraries, cafes, bookshops, poetry, and so much more, as old and you…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"If Beirut was the supermarket of the left in the 1970s, where Marxists, communists, Egyptians, Iraqis, and all the Palestinian factions debated and theorized, published and drank in bars arguing over…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Every king had tried to put his imprint on the city and the mosque; some were worse than others. King Faisal had been a parsimonious man and the expansion works reflected as much—measured and reasona…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
"Although our countries have been changed by the hegemonizing influences of both Iran and Saudi Arabia, the headlines in the Western media have always reduced matters of extraordinary depth and comple…"-Kim Ghattas, Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East
16. 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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17. The Mistress of Bhatia House (Perveen Mistry, #4)
By: Sujata Massey
4.02
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Bombay’s only female solicitor, Perveen Mistry, grapples with class divisions, sexism, and complex … read more
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18. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
By: Yashica Dutt
4.25
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more
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"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
19. 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
20. Rebels Against the Raj: Western Fighters for India's Freedom
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.10
Format: None pages, Unknown Binding
"From the acclaimed author of India After Gandhi: a group biography of seven remarkable men and wom… read more
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21. Missing In Action: Why You Should Care About Public Policy
By: Pranay Kotasthane
4.16
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
In Search of an Adarsh Indian State In India, public policies are all around us. Despite this pe… read more
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