21 Top nonfiction books like Don't Forward That Text!: Separating Myths from History on Social Media by Amit Schandillia

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Don't Forward That Text!: Separating Myths from History on Social Media

By: Amit Schandillia

3.50

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Amit's book will be of immense help to sift actual fact from fiction. -s. irfan habib In this age…

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1. Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent

By: Pranay Lal

4.53

Format: 468 pages, Hardcover

The first definitive natural history of the Indian subcontinent. Did you know that the exquisite… read more

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2. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser

4.12

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more

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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"

-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

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3. Everybody Loves a Good Drought

By: Palagummi Sainath , P. Sainath

3.44

Format: 213 pages,

The human face of poverty The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry langu… read more

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4. Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia

By: Vikram Chandra , S. Hussain Zaidi

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

Dongri to Dubai is the first ever attempt to chronicle the history of the Mumbai mafia. It is the s… read more

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5. Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits

By: Rahul Pandita

3.43

Format: 375 pages,

Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along… read more

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6. Death Comes as the End

By: Agatha Christie , Steven Saylor

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a … read more

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7. 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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8. Atlas Shrugged

By: Ayn Rand , Leonard Peikoff

4.14

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

This is the story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world and did. Was he a des… read more

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9. 2014: The Election That Changed India

By: Rajdeep Sardesai

4.00

Format: None pages,

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10. The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

By: Joseph Murphy , Ian McMahan

4.33

Format: 57 pages,

Chapter after chapter, this astounding book combines ancient wisdom with modern science to bring it… read more

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11. One Up On Wall Street: How to Use What You Already Know to Make Money in the Market

By: John Rothchild , Peter Lynch

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

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12. 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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13. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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14. Independence

By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

4.11

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

India, 1947. In a rural village in Bengal live three sisters, daughters of a well-respected doctor.… read more

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"The year is 1947. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times."

-Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Independence

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15. 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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16. 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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17. The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

By: Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An accessible, balanced chronicle of how the Israel-Palestine conflict originated and developed ove… read more

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Cover of Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya

18. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

By: Shrayana Bhattacharya

4.29

Format: 384 pages, None

In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more

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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"

-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence

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19. 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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20. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

By: Peggy Mohan

4.19

Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition

One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if … read more

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"In a grandiose sweep that demolished history itself, Sanskrit was put forward as the ancestor of not just this brand new ‘Shuddh’ Hindi, but the ‘Mother of all languages’. We still find otherwise tho…"

-Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages

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21. 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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Cover of I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS by Bhanwar Meghwanshi

22. I Could Not Be Hindu : The Story of a Dalit in the RSS

By: Bhanwar Meghwanshi

4.24

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In 1987, as the Ramjanmabhoomi movement gathers momentum, a thirteen-year-old from a village in Raj… read more

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23. How to Win an Indian Election

By: Shivam Shankar Singh

4.06

Format: 248 pages, Paperback

What role do political consultants play in election campaigns? How are political parties using tech… read more

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Cover of The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis by Parakala Prabhakar

24. The Crooked Timber Of New India: Essays on a Republic in Crisis

By: Parakala Prabhakar

4.36

Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition

‘It is close to nine years since the Narendra Modi-led BJP swept into power. A new era began in May… read more

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Cover of Nehru: The Debates That Defined India by Tripurdaman Singh

25. 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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26. Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World

By: Ramachandra Guha

4.52

Format: 1040 pages, Hardcover

Gandhi lived one of the great 20th-century lives. He inspired and enraged, challenged and delighted… read more

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Cover of RSS: The Long and the Short of It by Devanura Mahadeva

27. RSS: The Long and the Short of It

By: Devanura Mahadeva

3.94

Format: 91 pages, Paperback

THE RUNAWAY BESTSELLER FROM ONE OF KANNADA LITERATURE’S TALLEST FIGURES What is the Rashtriya Sw… read more

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Cover of Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods by Sreenivasan Jain

28. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods

By: Sreenivasan Jain

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more

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29. Don't Forward That Text!: Separating Myths from History on Social Media

By: Amit Schandillia

3.50

Format: 328 pages, Kindle Edition

Amit's book will be of immense help to sift actual fact from fiction. -s. irfan habib In this age… read more

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30. The Fiction of Fact-Finding: Modi and Godhra

By: Manoj Mitta

4.06

Format: 284 pages, Hardcover

No instance of communal violence has provoked as much controversy as the Gujarat 2002 carnage. And … read more

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31. Independence Day: A People's History

By: Veena Venugopal

4.17

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

"Seventy-five years ago, India attained its independence. What was it like to be an ordinary citize… read more

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4.28

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