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…
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1. India: A Million Mutinies Now
By: V.S. Naipaul
3.93
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
A look at India explores the ways different individuals have been affected by the numerous friction… read more
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"She said, on another day, "I do think about the individuals involved, all of them and I sometimes wonder what they really felt at certain moments, I think all of them were very courageous people. Eac…"-V.S. Naipaul, India: A Million Mutinies Now
"Cruelty, yes: it was in the nature of Indian family life. The clan that gave protection and identity, and saved people from the void, was itself a little state, and it could be a hard place, full of …"-V.S. Naipaul, India: A Million Mutinies Now
2. Arise Arjuna: Hinduism and the Modern World
By: David Frawley
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
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3. 'The Heathen in His Blindness...': Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion
By: S.N. Balagangadhara
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b… read more
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4. The Subjection of Women
By: John Stuart Mill
4.08
Format: 31 pages, Paperback
..".John Mill disagrees with the argument that women are naturally less good at some things than me… read more
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5. Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis
By: Kenneth N. Waltz
4.07
Format: 213 pages, Paperback
What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines the ideas of major th… read more
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7. Ten Myths about Israel
By: Ilan Pappé
4.03
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
What are the myths--and reality--behind the state of Israel? Ilan Pappe is one of the most outspoke… read more
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8. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
By: Ha-Joon Chang
3.00
Format: 136 pages,
In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more
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9. 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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"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)
10. 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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11. 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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"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
12. 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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13. India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation (Bharat Trilogy #2)
By: J. Sai Deepak
4.63
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward fro… read more
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14. 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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15. Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History
By: Vikram Sampath
4.52
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat, who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But Lo… read more
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16. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
By: Vikram Sampath
4.58
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in I… read more
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"In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the …"-Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
17. A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State
By: Harsh Gupta 'Madhusudan'
4.17
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
‘A clear look into India’s political, social and economic history unobstructed by decades of agenda… read more
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18. The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
By: Ashwin Desai
4.22
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
A biography detailing Gandhi’s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in t… read more
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19. Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
4.12
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India… read more
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20. Nehru: The Debates That Defined India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
3.87
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
From being elected as Congress president in 1929 till his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remained … read more
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21. The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and Why this History was Erased
By: Bhaskar Kamble
4.80
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
In The Imperishable Seed, Bhaskar Kamble assembles compelling evidence to show how this knowledge w… read more
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22. 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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23. Blood for Blood: Fifty Years of the Global Khalistan Project
By: Terry Milewski
4.14
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Fifty years ago, the campaign for a sovereign Sikh state - Khalistan - went global, proclaiming the… read more
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24. What does it mean to be 'Indian'?
By: S.N. Balagangadhara
4.20
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Why ask this question today? After all, a lot is written about India, her culture, her past, her so… read more
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"In short: making itihasa into history would destroy our past, because, as the world shows us today, the best way to destroy the past of a people is to give them history."-S.N. Balagangadhara, What does it mean to be 'Indian'?
25. 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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26. Tiger of Drass: Capt. Anuj Nayyar, 23, Kargil Hero
By: Meena Nayyar
4.63
Format: 264 pages, Paperback
In May 1999, the Kargil insurgency was still being viewed as a routine affair. No one quite underst… read more
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27. 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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28. Sunrise over Ayodhya
By: Salman Khurshid
2.76
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
On 9 November 2019, the Supreme Court, in a unanimous verdict, cleared the way for the construction… read more
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29. What is Hinduism?: A Guide for the Global Mind
By: David Frawley
4.14
Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition
What Is Hinduism? provides one of the most provocative, engaging and detailed examinations of this … read more
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30. Where the Gods Dwell: Thirteen Temples and their (hi)stories
By: Vikrant Pande
3.56
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
The great temples of the Indian subcontinent are uniquely fascinating spaces. Steeped in mythology … read more
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31. 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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