VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve…
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1. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.39
Format: 912 pages, Hardcover
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"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
2. Burma Chronicles
By: Guy Delisle
3.86
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'Burma Chronicles' presents a personal and distinctively humorous glimpse into a political hotspot,… read more
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3. Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.57
Format: 201 pages,
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4. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
By: None
3.50
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spi… read more
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5. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
6. 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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7. 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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8. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more
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9. 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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10. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.38
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this bac… read more
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11. 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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12. 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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13. Sultan: A Memoir
By: Wasim Akram
4.01
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Sultan is the official biography of Wasim Akram, the "sultan of swing", one of the greatest fast bo… read more
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"In fact, I was shortly to be chosen for my first tour to New Zealand. Again, I had Javed, now restored to captaincy, to thank. I was immediately anxious. I could not drive. I had neither money of my …"-Wasim Akram, Sultan: A Memoir
14. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories
By: Jayant Kaikini
3.81
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here… read more
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15. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History
By: Manu S. Pillai
3.96
Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition
From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who … read more
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16. The Pashtuns: A Contested History
By: Tilak Devasher
4.05
Format: 711 pages, Kindle Edition
The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They… read more
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17. Marginlands: Indian Landscapes on the Brink
By: Arati Kumar-Rao
4.48
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
A tour de force' – Robert Macfarlane 'Some of the best environmental writing I have read' – Amit… read more
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18. Price of the Modi Years
By: Aakar Patel
4.50
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the poli… read more
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"The creed of Hindutva that shapes Modi’s worldview says nothing original or new regarding modern government, if it says anything about this at all. It expresses a burning desire to make Bharat Mata g…"-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years
"Ganges, the Carrier of Corpses Don’t worry, be happy, in one voice speak the corpses O King, in your Ram-Rajya, we see bodies flow in the Ganges O King, the woods are ashes, No spots remain at cremat…"-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years
"The Union government from 2014 began systematic harassment and persecution of civil society. This harmed civil society but it also hurt India. NGOs provide the third largest workforce in the United S…"-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years
"Index: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index9 Monitors: Civil liberties, pluralism, political culture and participation, electoral process Method: Global ranking India 2014 ranking: 27 In…"-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years
19. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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20. How Prime Ministers Decide
By: Neerja Chowdhury
4.53
Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition
India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more
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21. The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis
By: Parakala Prabhakar
4.36
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
‘It is close to nine years since the Narendra Modi-led BJP swept into power. A new era began in May… read more
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22. Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States
By: John Zubrzycki
4.05
Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition
On 25 July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before the Chamber of Princes … read more
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23. 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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24. 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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25. Coaching Beyond: My Days with the Indian Cricket Team
By: R. Sridhar
4.07
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
The book is a dive into the minds of the top players and what has made them and the Indian team tic… read more
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26. Like Being Alive Twice
By: Dharini Bhaskar
3.70
Format: 312 pages, Kindle Edition
Is there a moment, so pliant, that we can nudge it towards any future we desire?Sometimes I believe… read more
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27. My Daughters' Mum Part 1
By: Natasha Badhwar
4.25
Format: 256 pages, ebook
My Daughters’ Mum—a first in a series of two essay collections—covers a range of essential subjects… read more
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28. Mangifera indica: A Biography of the Mango
By: Sopan Joshi
4.50
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The mango, the king of fruits, is also the fruit of desire and the fruit of love. Every aspect of t… read more
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29. Sky High: The IndiGo Story
By: Tarun Shukla
4.20
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
IndiGo was one of the late entrants in the low-cost airline business in India. The market already h… read more
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30. The Truth Pill: The Myth of Drug Regulation in India
By: Dinesh Singh Thakur
4.40
Format: 508 pages, Hardcover
Since 2004, when the fraud at Ranbaxy, the largest Indian pharmaceutical company at the time first … read more
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31. Hidden Links: How Random Historical Events Shaped Our World
By: Sangeeth Varghese
3.94
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
How did a climate change wipe out and reset our world? How are the Rajputs of India related to the … read more
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