7 Best biography books like Shivaji: India's Great Warrior King by Vaibhav Purandare

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Shivaji: India's Great Warrior King

By: Vaibhav Purandare

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the legendary seventeenth-century Maratha warrior who audaciously too…

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1. The Hundred Secret Senses

By: Amy Tan

4.00

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

The Hundred Secret Senses is an exultant novel about China and America, love and loyalty, the ident… read more

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"too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

"Kwan saw what she believed. I saw what I didn't want to believe."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

"But to pretend that all was right with the world, I first had to know what was wrong."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

"Too much happiness, said the man who returned, always overflows into tears of sorrow."

-Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses

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2. 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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  • history
  • india
"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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3. ಆವರಣ [Aavarana]

By: S.L. Bhyrappa

3.82

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Aavarana (Kannada: aavrnn) is a 2007 Kannada novel by one of the eminent novelists S.L. Bhyrappa. A… read more

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  • india
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4. Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

By: Audrey Truschke

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • india
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5. The Palace of Illusions

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more

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  • india

6. The Word for World is Forest

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.36

Format: 189 pages, ebook

Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named "New Tahit… read more

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7. 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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8. The Bonesetter's Daughter

By: Amy Tan

3.43

Format: 232 pages,

Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before s… read more

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9. 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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  • history
  • india
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10. 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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  • india
"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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11. This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

By: Natsuko Imamura

3.63

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

Other people don’t seem to understand Amiko. Whether eating curry rice with her hands at school or … read more

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"Every time she cried, "I love you!" the words shattered her heart without mercy."

-Natsuko Imamura, This is Amiko, Do You Copy?

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12. Sakina’s Kiss

By: Vivek Shanbhag

3.81

Format: 194 pages, Hardcover

Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more

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  • india
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13. The Good, the Bad, and the Aunties (Aunties, #3)

By: Jesse Q. Sutanto

3.54

Format: 278 pages, Paperback

What should have been a family celebration of Chinese New Year descends into chaos when longtime fo… read more

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14. That Night

By: Nidhi Upadhyay

3.78

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN AN INNOCENT PRANK GOES HORRIBLY WRONG? Natasha, Riya, Anjali and Katherine we… read more

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15. 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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  • history
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16. Why I am a Hindu

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.72

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one … read more

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  • history
  • india
"Who knows whence this creation had its origin? He, whether He fashioned it or whether He did not, He, who surveys it all from the highest heaven, He knows—or maybe even He does not know. — Rig Veda, …"

-Shashi Tharoor, Why I am a Hindu

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17. 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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  • history
  • india
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18. 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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  • history
  • biography
  • india
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19. 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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  • biography
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20. 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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  • biography
  • india
"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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21. The Orville: Sympathy for the Devil

By: Seth MacFarlane

4.26

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

An original novella set in season three of The Orville—straight from the pen of Seth MacFarlane, cr… read more

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22. RAYA : Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara

By: Srinivas Reddy

3.66

Format: 264 pages, Hardcover

In 1509 Krishnadevaraya, a prince from humble origins, ascended the throne of Vijayanagara. The emp… read more

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  • biography
  • india
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23. Shivaji: India's Great Warrior King

By: Vaibhav Purandare

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

"Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the legendary seventeenth-century Maratha warrior who audaciously too… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • india
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24. The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told

By: Ashutosh Potdar

3.67

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The twenty-eight stories in The Greatest Marathi Stories Ever Told represent some of the finest sho… read more

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  • india
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25. Netaji: Living Dangerously

By: Kingshuk Nag

4.17

Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition

Did Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose die in an air crash in Taihoku (Taipei, Taiwan) on 18 August 1945? W… read more

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  • biography
  • india
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26. Can't I Go Instead

By: Lee Geum-yi

3.98

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two women's lives and identities are intertwined—through World War II and the Korean War—revealing … read more

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27. Life and Death of Sambhaji

By: Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran

4.54

Format: 435 pages, Paperback

A HERO WHOSE DESTINY IS WRITTEN IN BLOOD It begins to dawn on the nine-year-old Sambhaji that hi… read more

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28. The Maratha Century: Vignettes and Anecdotes Of The Maratha Empire

By: Uday S. Kulkarni

4.26

Format: 312 pages, Hardcover

The Marathas began their quest for Swarajya in 1646 under Chhatrapati Shivaji. From this year until… read more

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  • india
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29. Mayadevi's London Yatra : New and Selected Stories

By: Bulbul Sharma

3.67

Format: 220 pages, Kindle Edition

When Mayadevi, aged 70, 75 or 80, depending on her mood, decides to goto London, she knows it will … read more

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30. Soul and Sword: The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

This is the first intellectual history of political Hinduism from its medieval origins to current-d… read more

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  • india
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31. Solstice at Panipat: 14 January 1761

By: Uday S. Kulkarni

4.42

Format: 287 pages, Paperback

'Solstice at Panipat' is an authentic account of the third battle of Panipat fought between the Mar… read more

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  • india
"The battle of Panipat was fought for more than what is usually imagined. It was fought by a people in the far south of India, on behalf of the Mughal Emperor, for the defence of India."

-Uday S. Kulkarni, Solstice at Panipat: 14 January 1761

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Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

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4.28

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William Dalrymple

4.20

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