22 must-read nonfiction books like Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by K.S. Komireddi

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Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India

By: K.S. Komireddi

4.19

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

‘INDIA IS AN IMPROBABLE NATION.’ Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has und…

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Cover of India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha

1. 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
  • asia
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
"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

Cover of How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell

2. How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

By: Joe Studwell

4.26

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

How Asia Works( Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region) Hardcover JoeStudwell G… read more

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  • asia
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

4.37

Format: 603 pages, Paperback

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more

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  • asia
  • india
  • indian literature
"Time had changed the magical to mundane"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"Marriage is like death, only happens once."

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

Cover of Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle by Mark Tully, Satish Jacob

4. Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle

By: Mark Tully , Satish Jacob

2.86

Format: 358 pages,

Mark Tully and Satish Jacob , who ran the BBC's bureau in Delhi, here trace the long build-up to th… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
Cover of The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R.K. Narayan, Pankaj Mishra, John      Lee

5. The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

By: R.K. Narayan , Pankaj Mishra , John Lee

4.21

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

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  • india

6. On Bullshit

By: Harry G. Frankfurt

3.77

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A #1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is s… read more

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7. Midnight’s Children

By: Salman Rushdie

3.98

Format: 647 pages, Paperback

An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more

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  • indian literature
  • india
"Life again refused to remain lifesized"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."

-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children

8. Ghachar Ghochar

By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur

3.91

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more

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9. 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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10. 24 Akbar Road

By: Rasheed Kidwai

3.93

Format: 300 pages, Hardcover

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11. 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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12. A Secular Age

By: Charles Margrave Taylor

3.64

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Almost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over… read more

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13. Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

By: Philipp Dettmer

4.59

Format: 341 pages, Hardcover

A gorgeously illustrated deep dive into the immune system that will forever change how you think ab… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • education
"Life hates nothing as much as wasting resources."

-Philipp Dettmer, Immune: a Journey into the Mysterious System that Keeps You Alive

Cover of Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes by Morgan Housel

14. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

By: Edmund Conway

4.52

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"

-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

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16. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

Cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple

17. 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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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur : How the Pulwama Case was Cracked by Rahul Pandita

18. The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur : How the Pulwama Case was Cracked

By: Rahul Pandita

3.99

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

Inside the world of the jaish-e-mohammed – from the Parliament attack to the Pulwama bombing in Feb… read more

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  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
Cover of Whole Numbers and Half Truths by Rukmini S.

19. 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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  • asia
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
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20. The Trading Game: A Confession

By: Gary Stevenson

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the tradin… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between by Bent Flyvbjerg

21. How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors That Determine the Fate of Every Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration and Everything In Between

By: Bent Flyvbjerg

4.32

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The secrets to successfully planning and delivering projects on any scale—from home renovation to s… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate by Arundhati Roy

22. The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate

By: Arundhati Roy

4.33

Format: 184 pages, Paperback

To best understand and address the inequality in India today, Arundhati Roy insists we must examine… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • india
  • nonfiction
"Gandhi actually said everything and it's opposite. To cherry pickers, he offers such a bewildering variety of cherries that you have to wonder if there was something the matter with the tree."

-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate

"The question is, can poverty be simulated? Poverty, after all, is not just a question of having no money or no possessions. Poverty is about having no power. The battle of the poor and the powerless …"

-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate

"In order to detach caste from the political economy, from conditions of enslavement in which most dalits lived and worked, in order to slide the questions of entitlement, land reforms and the redistr…"

-Arundhati Roy, The Doctor and the Saint: The Ambedkar - Gandhi Debate

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23. The Cases That India Forgot

By: Chintan Chandrachud

4.15

Format: 183 pages, Kindle Edition

Can a state Legislature imprison a critic and summon a high Court judge to appear before it? Are re… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
Cover of Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph

24. 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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  • indian literature
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of What Are You Doing With Your Life? by J. Krishnamurti

25. What Are You Doing With Your Life?

By: J. Krishnamurti

3.98

Format: None pages, Paperback

What are you?Who are you?What do you want from life? Life hurts us all, but rarely are we taught h… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • indian literature
Cover of The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail by Nick Wallis

26. The Great Post Office Scandal: The fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail

By: Nick Wallis

4.64

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

This “factual thriller” from the journalist Nick Wallis details a scandal which has been described … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career by Jeffrey Pfeffer

27. 7 Rules of Power: Surprising--but True--Advice on How to Get Things Done and Advance Your Career

By: Jeffrey Pfeffer

4.06

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

If you want to "change lives, change organizations, change the world," the Stanford business school… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone (Wiley Trading) by Agustin Lebron

28. The Laws of Trading: A Trader's Guide to Better Decision-Making for Everyone (Wiley Trading)

By: Agustin Lebron

4.04

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Every decision is a trade. Learn to think about the ones you should do ― and the ones you shouldn’t… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis by Parakala Prabhakar

29. 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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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
Cover of Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by K.S. Komireddi

30. Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India

By: K.S. Komireddi

4.19

Format: 244 pages, Kindle Edition

‘INDIA IS AN IMPROBABLE NATION.’ Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has und… read more

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  • history
  • asia
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
  • journalism
  • education
Cover of The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party by Nalin Mehta

31. The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party

By: Nalin Mehta

4.24

Format: 840 pages, Hardcover

In election after election since 2014, both at the Union and state levels, the BJP has won more oft… read more

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  • india
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

14 must-read history books like Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by K.S. Komireddi

Transform Your Habits

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Transform Your Habits

How Asia Works: Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

Joe Studwell

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle

Mark Tully , Satish Jacob

2.86

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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12 best-selling politics books like The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis by Parakala Prabhakar

Transform Your Habits

India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Emergency: A Personal History

Coomi Kapoor

4.04

Transform Your Habits

Whole Numbers and Half Truths

Rukmini S.

4.22

Transform Your Habits

Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

Tony Joseph

4.33

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