5 Best nonfiction books like COURTING HINDUSTAN : THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF ICONIC WOMEN PERFORMERS OF INDIA by Madhur Gupta

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COURTING HINDUSTAN : THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF ICONIC WOMEN PERFORMERS OF INDIA

By: Madhur Gupta

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

In ancient India, women competed to win the title of Nagarvadhu, quite literally the town’s consort…

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1. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire

By: Alex von Tunzelmann

4.75

Format: 140 pages, Hardcover

A re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independenc… read more

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2. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

By: Peter Frankopan

3.77

Format: None pages,

From the rise and fall of empires in China, Persia, and Rome itself to the spread of Buddhism and a… read more

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3. 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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4. The Book of Everlasting Things

By: Aanchal Malhotra

4.16

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

On a January morning in 1938, Samir Vij first locks eyes with Firdaus Khan through the rows of perf… read more

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5. The Hidden Hindu

By: Akshat Gupta

3.92

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Prithvi, a cryptic 21-year-old who remembers incidents from before his birth, is in pursuit of a my… read more

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6. Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club, #2)

By: Harini Nagendra

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Paperback

The latest novel in the acclaimed Bangalore Detectives Club series finds amateur sleuth Kaveri Murt… read more

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7. NAKED a novel

By: Aditi Mediratta

4.54

Format: 414 pages, Paperback

A woman’s naked body washes up on the beach in Versova, Mumbai. It is Chinky, a new-age spiritual s… read more

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8. The Last Courtesan : Writing My Mother's Memoir

By: Manish Gaekwad

4.05

Format: 192 pages, Hardcover

" The 1993 Bow Bazaar bomb blast in Calcutta brought an end to the kothas in the busy commercial di… read more

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9. Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta, #1)

By: Gourav Mohanty

3.77

Format: 636 pages, Kindle Edition

Some ballads are inked in blood. Bled dry by violent confrontations with the Magadhan Empire, th… read more

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-Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta, #1)

"After all, love without self-sacrifice was just lust"

-Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta, #1)

"The man had committed genocide. She knew she could trust him."

-Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta, #1)

"A place where soldiers found themselves as rulers, Shakuni thought, can only breed tyrants."

-Gourav Mohanty, Sons of Darkness (The Raag of Rta, #1)

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10. Welcome to Paradise

By: Twinkle Khanna

3.59

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

Rich narratives that explore the depth of loneliness, heartbreak and deception. Huma’s divided fami… read more

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11. Dr Cuterus

By: Tanaya Narendra

4.48

Format: 262 pages, Kindle Edition

No matter what kind of bits you have, the 'private' bits between our legs often leave us with ... m… read more

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12. Cold Blooded Love

By: Girish Dutt Shukla

4.28

Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition

Having separated from her husband Om, Ziva keeps can there be a happy forever family? Her new neig… read more

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13. How Prime Ministers Decide

By: Neerja Chowdhury

4.53

Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition

India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more

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14. Delhi, in Thy Name: The Many Legends that Make a City

By: Adrija Roychowdhury

4.00

Format: 295 pages, Paperback

To tell us the story of Delhi, journalist Adrija Roychowdhury takes a deep dive into the legends be… read more

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15. AFTERNOON

By: Nidhi Dalmia

3.90

Format: 233 pages, Kindle Edition

Set in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York, Kashmir and Delhi in the late ’60s, intertwined wit… read more

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16. BRIDGES ACROSS HUMANITY : DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, SIMILAR TEACHINGS

By: Akhil Gupta

4.33

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Since recorded human history (and perhaps even before), different religions have been the primary s… read more

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17. HAPPINESS IS SUCCESS

By: AiR Atman in Ravi

4.30

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

HAPPINESS IS WITHIN, HAPPINESS IS IN THE MOMENT . This is neither a secret nor a revelation, so why… read more

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18. 500 Easy, Delicious, Healthy Recipes: Simple Tricks for Stress-Free Cooking

By: Kavita Devgan

4.71

Format: 276 pages, Kindle Edition

Do you hate entering the kitchen after a long day of work? Do you struggle to find easy ideas for a… read more

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19. COURTING HINDUSTAN : THE CONSUMING PASSIONS OF ICONIC WOMEN PERFORMERS OF INDIA

By: Madhur Gupta

3.88

Format: 192 pages, Kindle Edition

In ancient India, women competed to win the title of Nagarvadhu, quite literally the town’s consort… read more

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20. MY ILLEGITIMATE SON : A TRUE STORY

By: Sanjay Jha

4.60

Format: 196 pages, Kindle Edition

Relationships are achingly complex, even more so when it’s a father and his accidental love child.T… read more

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21. Mad Sisters of Esi

By: Tashan Mehta

4.34

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

Myung and Laleh are keepers of the whale of babel. They roam within its cosmic chambers, speak folk… read more

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22. Rama of the Axe: The Epic Saga of Parashurama

By: Ranjith Radhakrishnan

4.48

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

THE LEGEND OF PARASHURAMA, THE SIXTH AVATAR OF VISHNU, RETOLD IN ALL ITS FANTASTIC DETAIL. The youn… read more

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23. Sinbad and the Rise of Iblis

By: Kevin Missal

4.41

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

You might be wondering why I'm still speaking in the midst of chaos. Well, danger has now become my… read more

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24. The Gold Collection: The Master’s Greatest Stories

By: Ruskin Bond

4.63

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The ten stories in The Gold Collection are among the finest ever written by India’s most beloved wr… read more

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25. The Man Who Lost India

By: Meghna Pant

3.39

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

The year is 2022. China declares war on India. Pillage and plunder ensues. The war comes to an abru… read more

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26. Wanderings in the Land of Mist: The Complete Story of Mussoorie

By: Anmol Jain

4.30

Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition

In Wanderings in the Land of Mist, newspaper columnist Anmol Jain takes you back in time to revisit… read more

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27. Not Quite a Disaster After All

By: Buku Sarkar

3.12

Format: 212 pages, Hardcover

In six connected, haunting vignettes that span two continents and two decades, we follow Anjali, mi… read more

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28. The Yogi Witch : Bloodlines and Legacies

By: Zorian Cross

3.75

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

" Raised by a trio of witches, Jai Gill invites us on a journey of magic, mystery, and mayhem - all… read more

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29. A Lost People’s Archive: A Novel

By: Rimli Sengupta

3.85

Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition

Two neighbours meet as little children in Patuakhali town, deep in the delta where the mammoth Megh… read more

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30. A Matrimonial Murder

By: Meeti Shroff Shah

4.07

Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition

The thrilling second book in the Temple Hill Mystery series!A Matrimonial Murder takes us back to t… read more

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31. Cockatoo: A Novel

By: Yashraj Goswami

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

‘I just loved Cockatoo ! I loved how nearly each story ends in a twist ending. I loved how this boo… read more

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