15 Top nonfiction books like Essays on Indic History by Vijender Sharma

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Essays on Indic History

By: Vijender Sharma

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

History is not just a chronology of events from the past. In fact, it is a deep connection to our p…

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1. Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

By: Russell Brand

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, fo… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The condition in extreme is identifiable but the less obvious version of addiction is still painful and arguably worse because we simply adapt to living in pain."

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The reason I continue to is because they have awakened me to the impossibility of happiness based on my previous world view: that I am the centre of the world and that what I want is important."

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The feeling you have that 'there's something else' is real. What happens when you don't follow the compulsion? What is on the other side of my need [...]? The only way to find out is to not do it, an…"

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

"The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem is ultimately 'being human' in an environment that i…"

-Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

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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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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
"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. The Road to Character

By: David Brooks

3.65

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"... there are other proud people who have low self-esteem. They feel they haven't lived up to their potential. They feel unworthy. They want to hide and disappear, to fade into the background and nur…"

-David Brooks, The Road to Character

"We are called at certain moments to comfort people who are enduring some trauma. Many of us don't know how to react in such situations, but others do. In the first place, they just show up. They prov…"

-David Brooks, The Road to Character

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4. A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum

3.94

Format: 353 pages, Paperback

His life was like a recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taki… read more

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"I’m forever realizing things too late."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

"A friend to kill time is a friend sublime."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

"The light of morning decomposes everything."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

"Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you."

-Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (The Rat, #3)

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5. Living with the Himalayan Masters

By: Swami Rama

3.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

This is a book of inspirational stories of Swama Rama's experiences and lessons learned with the gr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
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6. Truth, Love and a Little Malice

By: Khushwant Singh

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

Khuswant on Khuswant is irresistable... such is his skill as a writer, simple, lucid, unpretentious… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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7. The Arthashastra

By: None , L.N. Rangarajan , Kautilya

3.91

Format: 163 pages, Hardcover

The Arthashastra is an ancient Indian treatise on statecraft, economic policy and military strategy… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history

8. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin

3.92

Format: None pages, Paperback

Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writ… read more

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9. The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By: Norman Doidge

4.22

Format: 129 pages,

An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the… read more

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10. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By: Haruki Murakami , Jay Rubin , Philip Gabriel

3.84

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

Collection of twenty-four stories that generously expresses Murakami’s mastery of the form. From th… read more

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"People are weak when they are alone."

-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

"The music world is where child prodigies go to die."

-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

"Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it."

-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

"I learned there were lots of realities in the world."

-Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

11. The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

4.40

Format: 184 pages, Hardcover

A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable… read more

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12. 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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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
"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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13. The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By: Bill Bryson

4.32

Format: 450 pages, Hardcover

In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the se… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

By: Jonathan Haidt

4.21

Format: 420 pages, Paperback

Una suggestiva indagine dei meccanismi profondi che regolano la nostra esistenza, le decisioni che … read more

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"Reasoning can take you wherever you want to go."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Intuitions come first, strategic reasoning second."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

"Science is a smorgasbord, and google will guide you to the study that's right for you."

-Jonathan Haidt, Menti tribali: Perché le brave persone di dividono su politica e religione

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15. The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life

By: Steven Bartlett

4.19

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A galvanizing playbook for success from Steven Bartlett, one of the world’s most exciting entrepren… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

By: Daniel Z. Lieberman

4.15

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

Why are we obsessed with the things we want and bored when we get them? Why is addiction "perfect… read more

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"It’s better to be smart than strong."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Success inspired confidence; confidence produced success."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"Having a confident expectation of success can make obstacles melt before your eyes."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

"As the German philosopher Arthur Schoppenhauer wrote, "Dreams are brief madness and madness a long dreams."

-Daniel Z. Lieberman, The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race

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17. 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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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
Cover of Modi And India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat by Rahul Shivshankar

18. Modi And India: 2024 and the Battle for Bharat

By: Rahul Shivshankar

4.06

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The year 2014 was a consequential one for the Bharatiya Janata Party and for India. Will 2024 also … read more

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19. Immortal Talks

By: Shunya

4.24

Format: 162 pages, Kindle Edition

The book starts with two monks secretly observing a group of tribal people in a forested mountain. … read more

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20. 10 Lessons from Hindu History in 10 Episodes: Tales of Grit, Heroism and Valour

By: Sandeep Balakrishna

4.36

Format: 127 pages, Kindle Edition

Perhaps no other people have fought as hard and for so long and endured centuries of humiliation an… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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21. Essays on Indic History

By: Vijender Sharma

4.40

Format: None pages, Paperback

History is not just a chronology of events from the past. In fact, it is a deep connection to our p… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
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22. Looking Inward: Meditating to Survive A Changing World

By: Purnachaitanya

4.37

Format: 146 pages, Kindle Edition

The world as we know it in 2021 is worse than we have known in our time on earth. Global warming, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Wake up to the transitory nature of things – this will free your mind."

-Purnachaitanya, Looking Inward: Meditating to Survive A Changing World

"We can only aspire to become unshakable when we take ownership for our state of mind and how we feel about situations life hands out to us"

-Purnachaitanya, Looking Inward: Meditating to Survive A Changing World

"Meditation is a journey from effort to effortlessness, from activity to stillness, and from stress, anxiety and frustration to a state of peace and tranquillity."

-Purnachaitanya, Looking Inward: Meditating to Survive A Changing World

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23. Caste, Conversion A Colonial Conspiracy: What Every Hindu and Christian Needs to Know about Caste

By: Satish K. Sharma

4.42

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Almost everyone on the planet has heard of the "Ancient Hindu Caste" system and somehow, almost eve… read more

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  • history

10 Best history books like Essays on Indic History by Vijender Sharma

Transform Your Habits

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

Ramachandra Guha

4.39

Transform Your Habits

The Road to Character

David Brooks

3.65

Transform Your Habits

Truth, Love and a Little Malice

Khushwant Singh

3.53

Transform Your Habits

The Arthashastra

None , L.N. Rangarajan , Kautilya

3.91

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Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

Loretta Graziano Breuning

4.03

Transform Your Habits

Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will

Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

Transform Your Habits

Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

Morgan Housel

4.19

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Jessie Inchauspé

4.44

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