The Commissioner For Lost Causes
By: Arun Shourie
3.91
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
The work done by Arun Shourie and his colleagues rocked institutions and the freeing of 40,000 und…
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1. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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- nonfiction
- india
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
2. Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years
By: A.S. Dulat , Aditya Sinha
3.81
Format: 326 pages, Paperback
Vajpayee PMO member's account of the quest for peace in a troubled stateThere comes a day in one's … read more
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- nonfiction
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3. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
By: Amartya Sen
3.83
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual… read more
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- india
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"While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!"-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
4. Amsterdam: A History of the World's Most Liberal City
By: Russell Shorto
3.54
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An endlessly entertaining portrait of the city of Amsterdam and the ideas that make it unique, by t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
5. TO THE BRINK AND BACK: India's 1991 Story
By: Jairam Ramesh
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
The book, The Brink and Back, is an account of the events leading to the path-breaking economic lib… read more
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- nonfiction
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6. Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.57
Format: 201 pages,
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7. Vaishali Ki Nagarvadhu
By: None
3.51
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Acarya Chatursen is one of the finest writers of modern India besides being the most versatile writ… read more
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8. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independenc… read more
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9. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
10. Nehru and Bose
By: None
3.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Nobody has done more harm to me than Jawaharlal Nehru,' wrote Subhas Chandra Bose in 1939. Had rela… read more
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11. 10 Judgements That Changed India
By: Zia Mody
3.21
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Here are the Supreme Court of India's ten pivotal judgements that have transformed Indian democracy… read more
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12. 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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- nonfiction
- india
- history
13. Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
By: Anirudh Kanisetti
4.23
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a… read more
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- nonfiction
- india
- history
14. 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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- nonfiction
- india
15. War Minus the Shooting
By: Mike Marqusee
4.50
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-… read more
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- india
16. "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
By: Richard P. Feynman
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A New York Times bestseller—the outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific mi… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
"I learned from her that every woman is worried about her looks, no matter how beautiful she is."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!"-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,' — which is just another way of saying that you can't."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
"You see, I get so much fun out of thinking that I don’t want to destroy this pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick."-Richard P. Feynman, "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
17. 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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- india
"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
18. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
By: Eric Jorgenson
4.44
Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition
Getting rich is not just about luck; Happiness is not just a trait we are born with. These aspirati… read more
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"No one in the world is going to beat you at being you."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"Intentions don’t matter. Actions do. That’s why being ethical is hard."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"An old boss once warned: “You’ll never be rich since you’re obviously smart, and someone will always offer you a job that’s just good enough."-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
"I don’t buy the everlasting afterlife answers because it’s insane to me, with absolutely no evidence, to believe because of how you live seventy years here on this planet, you’re going to spend etern…"-Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
19. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
By: Peggy Mohan
4.19
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if … read more
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- india
- history
"In a grandiose sweep that demolished history itself, Sanskrit was put forward as the ancestor of not just this brand new ‘Shuddh’ Hindi, but the ‘Mother of all languages’. We still find otherwise tho…"-Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
20. R.A.W. Hitman: The Real Story of Agent Lima
By: S. Hussain Zaidi
3.55
Format: 291 pages, Kindle Edition
In September 2011, the double murder of gangsters Raju Pargai and Amit Arya rocked the Indian state… read more
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21. R. N. Kao: Gentleman Spymaster
By: Nitin A. Gokhale
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
Somewhere deep in the archives of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML) in the heart of New … read more
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22. 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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23. Not Just Cricket
By: Pradeep Magazine
4.09
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
'A wonderful memoir . . . richly insightful, and deeply moving' - Ramachandra Guha Eminent journali… read more
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24. The Commissioner For Lost Causes
By: Arun Shourie
3.91
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
The work done by Arun Shourie and his colleagues rocked institutions and the freeing of 40,000 und… read more
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25. Justice For The Judge: An Autobiography
By: Ranjan Gogoi
3.45
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
Clear-eyed, inspiring and incisive, this is the story of a man of consummate ambition, who made a s… read more
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26. Turmoil In Punjab: Before and After Blue Star: An Insider's Account
By: Ramesh Inder Singh
4.25
Format: 704 pages, Kindle Edition
Punjab went through a politically turbulent period between 1978 and 1994, triggered by the rift bet… read more
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- india
27. A Rude Life
By: Vir Sanghvi
4.18
Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition
Vir Sanghvi's has been an interesting life - one that took him to Oxford, movie and political journ… read more
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- india
28. India Moving: A History of Migration
By: Chinmay Tumbe
3.94
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala,… read more
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- india
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29. Madam Commissioner: The Extraordinary Life of an Indian Police Chief
By: Meeran Chadha Borwankar
4.36
Format: 283 pages, Kindle Edition
The incredible memoir from one of India’s most uncompromising police officers.Meeran Chadha Borwank… read more
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30. Renaissance State: The Unwritten Story of the Making of Maharashtra
By: Girish Kuber
3.61
Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition
Maharashtra. Among the country's largest, wealthiest, most significant constituents. A great state … read more
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31. The Disruptor: How Vishwanath Pratap Singh Shook India
By: Debashish Mukerji
4.10
Format: 713 pages, Kindle Edition
'Once you start reading, it's almost impossible to put this book down. This is not simply a biograp… read more
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