10 Best history books like Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here by Aakar Patel

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Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here

By: Aakar Patel

4.07

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What…

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1. ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham

By: Benyamin

4.31

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

ലക്ഷകണക്കിനു മലയാളികള്‍ ഗള്‍ഫില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു, ലക്ഷങ്ങള്‍ ജീവിച്ചു തിരിച്ചു പോയിരിക്കുന്നു. ഇതില്‍ എത്ര പേര്‍ മരുഭൂ… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
"നിങ്ങൾ സത്യമായും നിർഭാഗ്യത്തിന്റെ നാടുവിലാണെങ്കിൽ, പിന്നെ നിങ്ങൾ ചെയ്യുന്നതെല്ലാം ഒന്നാംതരം മണ്ടത്തരങ്ങളായിരിക്കും"

-Benyamin, ആടുജീവിതം | Aatujeevitham

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2. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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3. 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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  • indian literature
  • india
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4. Bitter Fruit: The Very Best of Saadat Hasan Manto

By: Saadat Hasan Manto , Khalid Hasan

4.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

Widely renowned as the best short story writer in Urdu, Manto s stories were mostly written against… read more

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  • india

5. Husband Of A Fanatic: A Personal Journey Through India, Pakistan, Love, And Hate

By: Amitava Kumar

3.67

Format: 499 pages, Hardcover

"In the summer of 1993, while India and Pakistan were engaged in a war, Amitava Kumar - a Indian Hi… read more

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6. I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

By: Grant Snider

3.74

Format: 128 pages, Hardcover

A look at the culture and fanaticism of book lovers, from the beloved New York Times illustrator … read more

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  • nonfiction
"A book closed is just a block of paper."

-Grant Snider, I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf

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7. Shubeik Lubeik

By: Deena Mohamed

4.50

Format: 528 pages, ebook

A brilliant and imaginative debut graphic novel that brings to life a fantastical Cairo where wishe… read more

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8. 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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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
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9. The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

By: Ichiro Kishimi

3.98

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Japanese phenomenon that teaches us the simple yet profound lessons required to liberate our re… read more

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  • nonfiction
"All you can do in regard to your own life is choose the best path that you believe in."

-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

"But is being normal, being ordinary, really such a bad thing? Is it something inferior? Or, in truth, isn't everybody normal?"

-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

"Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy."

-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

"Look, no matter how much you want to be Y, you cannot be reborn as him. You are not Y. It's okay for you to be you. However, I am not saying it's fine to be 'just as you are'. If you are unable to re…"

-Ichiro Kishimi, The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

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10. Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

By: Kashmir Hill

4.14

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforceme… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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11. Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

By: Barbara Demick

4.45

Format: 338 pages, Kindle Edition

Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years—a chaotic period that saw… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"...the strength of the regime came from its ability to isolate its own citizens completely."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"In North Korea, you don’t own your own home; you are merely awarded the right to live there."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"He would wait hours for her, maybe two or three. It didn’t matter. The cadence of life is slower in North Korea. Nobody owned a watch."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

"Even in parts of the showcase capital of Pyongyang, you can stroll down the middle of a main street at night without being able to see the buildings on either side."

-Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

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12. The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Through India's New Gilded Age

By: James Crabtree

3.84

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

India is the world's largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding … read more

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  • india
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir

By: Ramachandra Guha

4.28

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o… read more

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  • india
  • nonfiction
  • history
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14. The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

By: Ravish Kumar

4.18

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

‘The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised… read more

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  • indian literature
  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
"These exhortations to keep safe have made people cowards."

-Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

"You cannot put yours and yourself in danger just to overcome your fear."

-Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

"While a ribbon awaits Usain Bolt at the finishing line, for people like us, there is a concrete wall. When you reach the finishing line, you run straight into that wall. Everything, your job, your cr…"

-Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation

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15. I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS

By: Bhanwar Meghwanshi

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In 1987, as the Ramjanmabhoomi movement gathers momentum, a thirteen-year-old from a village in Raj… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
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16. Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope

By: M. Rajshekhar

4.33

Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition

The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwa… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
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17. Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here

By: Aakar Patel

4.07

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What… read more

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  • nonfiction
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18. H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars

By: Kunal Purohit

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

" Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the g… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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19. The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi

By: Makarand R. Paranjape

3.52

Format: 231 pages, Kindle Edition

"The Death and Afterlife of Mahatma Gandhi is an explosive and original analysis of the assassinati… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
Cover of India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance by Arvind Narrain

20. India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance

By: Arvind Narrain

4.20

Format: 342 pages, Hardcover

In 1975, the Indira Gandhi government declared Emergency in India, unveiling an era of State excess… read more

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  • india
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Cover of Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India by Harsh Mander

21. Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India

By: Harsh Mander

4.43

Format: 426 pages, Kindle Edition

This feeble blemished light, this dawn mangled by night, this is not the morning we had all so long… read more

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  • india
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Josy Joseph

4.39

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Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup's Quest to End Privacy as We Know It

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3.94

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Vikram Chandra , S. Hussain Zaidi

4.36

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Shashi Tharoor

3.63

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Tim Marshall

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