12 best-selling history books like Babur: The Chessboard King by Aabhas K. Maldahiyar

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Babur: The Chessboard King

By: Aabhas K. Maldahiyar

3.32

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Babur, the visionary founder of Timurid Empire in Hindustan, had a fair share of early struggle fol…

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1. Autobiography of a Yogi

By: Paramahansa Yogananda

4.24

Format: 503 pages, Paperback

This acclaimed autobiography presents a fascinating portrait of one of the great spiritual figures … read more

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  • biography
  • india
"Who am I? The great inquiry indeed."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"Todo tiene su momento, y cada cosa su tiempo bajo el cielo"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained."

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

"The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"

-Paramahansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi

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2. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

By: Edward Gibbon , Daniel J. Boorstin , None , Hans-Friedrich Mueller

3.37

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

Edited, abridged, and with a critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller Introduction by Daniel J. … read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
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3. Journey Under the Midnight Sun

By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

When a man is found murdered in an abandoned building in Osaka in 1973, unflappable detective Sasag… read more

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4. Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

By: Audrey Truschke

3.50

Format: 185 pages, Hardcover

Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. Hindu… read more

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  • biography
  • india
  • history

5. Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud

By: Arun Shourie

3.86

Format: None pages,

Shourie has the anecdotal reasoning of Nirad Chaudhuri married to the writing style of Robert Ludlu… read more

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6. Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

By: Anand Ranganathan

4.48

Format: 152 pages, Hardcover

To those who claim we are now living in a totalitarian, fascist, Hindu Rashtra, one must What kind… read more

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  • india
  • history
"The concept of justice is like memory. It keeps getting passed on until it is realised."

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

"To me, the mark of civilisation is this unquenchable thirst of man to demand justice for his ancestors; to correct a historical wrong. For that exemplifies a continuity; an idea, a memory that can ne…"

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

"And to those who now call this nation a Hindu Rashtra, run by religious zealots and fascists, to those I ask: In which theocratic state would religious zealots wait for half a millennium and even the…"

-Anand Ranganathan, Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

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7. Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

By: Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

The official narrative of India's freedom struggle has almost entirely been about the non-violent p… read more

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  • india
  • history
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8. War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.65

Format: 500 pages, Paperback

LANKA WILL BURN. DARKNESS WILL PERISH. BUT CAN LIGHT ENDURE? INDIA, 3400 BCE. Greed. Rage.… read more

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"Fresh drops of grief do not cause any ripple in an ocean of anguish."

-Amish Tripathi, War of Lanka (Ram Chandra, #4)

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9. Waiting for Shiva: Unearthing the Truth of Kashi’s Gyan Vapi

By: Vikram Sampath

4.68

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

Few places in the world carry the heavy burden of history as effortlessly as Kashi, or Varanasi, ha… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
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10. Ramayana Unravelled: Lesser Known Facets of Rishi Vālmiki’s Epic

By: Ami Ganatra

4.41

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

No epic has moved the consciousness of millions like the Ramayana. The appeal of the story of Rama … read more

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  • india
  • history
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11. Babur: The Chessboard King

By: Aabhas K. Maldahiyar

3.32

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Babur, the visionary founder of Timurid Empire in Hindustan, had a fair share of early struggle fol… read more

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  • biography
  • india
  • history
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12. Europe, India, and the Limits of Secularism

By: Jakob De Roover

4.39

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

For several decades now, commentators have sounded the alarm about the crisis of secularism. Saving… read more

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  • history
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13. The Idea called Malai

By: Suresh Kumar

4.29

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

This book is a peek into Annamalai's nascent journey for those who wish to understand the potential… read more

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14. Ram Janmabhoomi: The Inspiration for Hindu Resurgence

By: Rashmi Samant

4.40

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

A civilization that forgets its struggles is condemned to repeat its mistakes and spiral into a sel… read more

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Cover of ADIDEVA: 25 Legends Behind his 25 Names (A YatraThrough Puranas, Sthala Puranas and Itihasas) by Deepa Bhaskaran Salem

15. ADIDEVA: 25 Legends Behind his 25 Names (A YatraThrough Puranas, Sthala Puranas and Itihasas)

By: Deepa Bhaskaran Salem

4.50

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Shiva kathas are strewn like bright gems across the antiquated treasure chests of the Vedas, Itihas… read more

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16. The Vedic Age

By: R.C. Majumdar

4.34

Format: 569 pages, Hardcover

The first volume of this history begins with an introductory section dealing with certain general t… read more

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17. Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading Up To and Following the Partition of India

By: G.D. Khosla

3.89

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

First published in 1949 in the aftermath of Partition, and now available for the first time in pape… read more

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18. Soul and Sword: The Endless Battle over Political Hinduism

By: Hindol Sengupta

3.96

Format: 220 pages, Hardcover

This is the first intellectual history of political Hinduism from its medieval origins to current-d… read more

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  • india
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19. When Did The Mahabharata War Happen? : The Mystery of Arundhati

By: Nilesh Nilkanth Oak

4.05

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

In a drastic re-evaluation of astronomy observations from Mahabharata, using high-tech tool of mode… read more

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20. Ramayanam

By: Dushyanth Sridhar

4.06

Format: 348 pages, Hardcover

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21. Science And Environment In Vedic Sanatan Religion

By: Vijay Kumar Pandey

4.24

Format: 146 pages, Paperback

Rites and customs of the Vedic Sanatan religion are not orthodox—as propagated by some rationalists… read more

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11 Best nonfiction books like Babur: The Chessboard King by Aabhas K. Maldahiyar

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Paramahansa Yogananda

4.24

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Edward Gibbon , Daniel J. Boorstin , None , Hans-Friedrich Mueller

3.37

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Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

Audrey Truschke

3.50

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4.48

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Rahul Pandita

3.43

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4.48

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Why Bharat Matters

S. Jaishankar

3.94

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Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

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