A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Rohit de
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
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1. Dead Souls
By: Nikolai Gogol , Robert A. Maguire
3.98
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Chichikov, a mysterious stranger, arrives in a provincial town and visits a succession of landowner… read more
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"Keep not money, but keep good people's company."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
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"A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
"A Russian peasant scratching the back of his head means many different things."-Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
2. The Nation & Its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories
By: Partha Chatterjee
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Hardcover
In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results o… read more
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3. The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)
By: Amish Tripathi
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of t… read more
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4. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By: Doris Kearns Goodwin , Suzanne Toren
4.28
Format: 916 pages, Paperback
Winner of the Lincoln PrizeAcclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Lincoln's political… read more
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"An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school."-Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
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5. The Collaborator
By: Mirza Waheed
3.37
Format: 297 pages, Hardcover
It is Kashmir in the early 1990s and war has finally reached the isolated village of Nowgam close t… read more
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6. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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7. The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.05
Format: 196 pages, Hardcover
Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well… read more
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8. The Devotion of Suspect X
By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husb… read more
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9. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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13. Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
By: Nir Eyal
3.75
Format: 290 pages, Hardcover
You sit down at your desk to work on an important project, but a notification on your phone interru… read more
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14. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat
By: Perumal Murugan
4.11
Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition
Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more
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15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
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4.25
Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition
Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more
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"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir
19. Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
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20. The Long Game: How the Chinese Negotiate with India
By: Vijay Gokhale
4.48
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
'Essential reading for all those interested in how India will deal with its greatest strategic chal… read more
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21. Price of the Modi Years
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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
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"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
22. The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind
By: Raghuram G. Rajan
3.84
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A Fareed Zakaria GPS Book of the Week From one of the most important economic thinkers of our t… read more
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23. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
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24. How Prime Ministers Decide
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4.53
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India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more
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4.35
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Who were the people of the Indus? Why didn't they build pyramids like the Egyptians? And ultimat… read more
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26. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
By: Ranajit Guha
3.93
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
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27. India's Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy
By: Madhav Khosla
3.93
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British r… read more
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28. Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Ideas in Context, Series Number 100)
By: C.A. Bayly
3.64
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from … read more
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29. A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Rohit de
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by e… read more
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30. Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy
By: Christophe Jaffrelot
3.97
Format: 656 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy towa… read more
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31. Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
By: Shruti Kapila
3.38
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern India Violent Fraternity is a maj… read more
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