5 Best nonfiction books like Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar

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Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

By: B.R. Ambedkar

4.04

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality,…

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1. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle

By: Mark Wolynn

3.55

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generatio… read more

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  • nonfiction

2. Visit The Bhil Carnival

By: Gita Wolf , Subhash Amaliyar , Catriona Maciver , None

4.13

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Each year, people of the Bhil tribe from Madhya Pradesh in central India celebrate a wonderful carn… read more

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3. The Calcutta Chromosome: A Novel of Fevers, Delirium & Discovery

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.50

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

From Victorian lndia to near-future New York, The Calcutta Chromosometakes readers on a wondrous jo… read more

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4. The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone

By: Olivia Laing

4.22

Format: 206 pages, Hardcover

An expertly crafted work of reportage, memoir and biography on the subject of loneliness told throu… read more

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5. 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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6. Gujarat Files

By: Rana Ayyub

3.68

Format: None pages,

Gujarat Files is the account of an eight-month long undercover investigation by journalist Rana Ayy… read more

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7. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more

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8. Notes from Underground

By: Fyodor Dostoevsky , Norman Dietz , Richard Pevear , Larissa Volokhonsky , Boris de Schlœzer , Emanuela Guercetti , None , Donald Fanger , None , None , None

4.17

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between ninet… read more

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"l'homme de la nature et de la verite"

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"إذ ما العذاب والألم ... سوى المحرك الوحيد للوعي."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

"To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."

-Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground

9. The White Tiger

By: Aravind Adiga

3.88

Format: 373 pages, Hardcover

Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Balram tells us t… read more

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10. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

By: Isabel Wilkerson

4.53

Format: 544 pages, Hardcover

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more

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  • nonfiction
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"

-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

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11. Whereabouts

By: Jhumpa Lahiri

3.77

Format: 157 pages, Hardcover

Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her theme… read more

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"the routine purchases of a woman on her own,"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"My mother, by now, clings to life like a yellowing piece of Scotch tape in a scrapbook."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"wastes away like an old woman who was once a stunning beauty before shutting down completely."

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

"There’s no point discussing it given that she’s blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me"

-Jhumpa Lahiri, Whereabouts

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12. The Perfect Nanny

By: Leïla Slimani

3.40

Format: 228 pages, Paperback

This is an alternate cover edition for ISBN 9780143132172. When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer… read more

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"The baby is dead."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Nous devons prouver que, vous aussi, vous êtes une victime."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Several times during the night, she opened her eyes, unsure if an hour had passed or a month."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

"Yeah. Maybe. But honestly, I don’t understand.’ ‘You shouldn’t try to understand everything. Children are just like adults. There’s nothing to understand."

-Leïla Slimani, The Perfect Nanny

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13. I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

By: Baek Se-hee

3.28

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

The South Korean runaway bestseller, debut author Baek Sehee's intimate therapy memoir, as recommen… read more

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"Togetherness means altruism, and altruism is what saves us from selfishness."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"For example, when you’re co-dependent on your partner you resent them, but when you leave your partner, you feel anxious and bereft."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"Fear increases when it's something that you keep to yourself. Instead of suffering alone, it can often be good to share it with someone else."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

"What matters isn't what people say but what you like and find joy in. I hope you focus less on how you look to other people and more on fulfilling your true desires."

-Baek Se-hee, I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokpokki

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14. Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

By: Farah Bashir

4.10

Format: 228 pages, Hardcover

Rumours of Spring is the unforgettable account of Farah Bashir's adolescence spent in Srinagar in t… read more

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  • india
  • history
"The house I would go back to would be bereft of her presence but filled with her memories. Our home, the little monument of memory."

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"I thought maybe if I looked ugly and less pleasant, the men would not look at me and I'd be safe. I wouldn't wash my face for days. I didn't want to look attractive in any way, at all, lest it invite…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"...the constant shifting of power had done its damage. I didn't know then, but it was the beginning of an apathy for my own self that would last for a long time. Our lives were controlled from elsewh…"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

"Why are people okay with not walking? Does Father not miss his daily walks to the shrine and his shop? What about Mother and her long walk to her parents' home? Does Bobeh not get bored now that she …"

-Farah Bashir, Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

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15. Bombay Balchao

By: Jane Borges

4.18

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Bombay was the city everyone came to in the early decades of the nineteenth century: among them, th… read more

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16. Qabar

By: K.R. Meera

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

As the foundations are laid for a temple to rise on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, voices ris… read more

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17. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

By: B.R. Ambedkar

4.04

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality,… read more

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5 Best india books like Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables by B.R. Ambedkar

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Gita Wolf , Subhash Amaliyar , Catriona Maciver , None

4.13

Transform Your Habits

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Amitav Ghosh

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir

Farah Bashir

4.10

Transform Your Habits

Qabar

K.R. Meera

3.95

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Jerry Pinto , Sachin Kundalkar

3.96

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Jerry Pinto

4.19

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The Zoya Factor

Anuja Chauhan

3.94

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The Shadow Lines

Amitav Ghosh

4.82

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