19 Top history books like Karunanidhi: A Life by A.S. Panneerselvan

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Karunanidhi: A Life

By: A.S. Panneerselvan

4.32

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

Writer-turned-politician Muthuvel Karunanidhi is amongst the most important political figures India…

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1. The Oath of the Vayuputras (Shiva Trilogy, #3)

By: Amish Tripathi

3.84

Format: None pages, Paperback

ONLY A GOD CAN STOP IT. Shiva is gathering his forces. He reaches the Naga capital, Panchavati, and… read more

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2. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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3. Anna : The Life and Times of C.N.Annadurai

By: R. Kannan

4.22

Format: None pages, Hardcover

On 6 March 1967; fifty-eight-year-old Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai became chief minister of Madr… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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4. The Immortals of Meluha (Shiva Trilogy, #1)

By: Amish Tripathi

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

1900 BC. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation. The inhabitants of t… read more

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5. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction

6. Veerappan: Chasing the Brigand

By: K. Vijay Kumar

4.55

Format: 160 pages,

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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7. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction

8. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service

By: Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal

4.10

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

The Mossad is widely recognized today as the best intelligence service in the world. It is also the… read more

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9. A History of Violence

By: John Wagner , Vince Locke

3.79

Format: 477 pages, Paperback

It's just another quiet day in small-town, USA, until a couple of wanted killers walk into Tom McKe… read more

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10. Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes

By: Morgan Housel

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

“Want to understand the changing world? Start with what stays the same. That’s the amazing conclusi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. The Psychology of Money

By: Morgan Housel

4.30

Format: 252 pages, Paperback

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavio… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Saving is the gap between your ego and your income."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

"Spending money to show people how much money you have is the fastest way to have less money."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

"To grasp why people bury themselves in debt, you don’t need to study interest rate: you need to sturdy the history of greed , insecurity and optimism."

-Morgan Housel, The Psychology of Money

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12. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Four Thousand Weeks

By: Oliver Burkeman

4.22

Format: 271 pages, Hardcover

The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have… read more

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  • nonfiction
"We’ve been granted the mental capacities to make almost infinitely ambitious plans, yet practically no time at all to put them into action."

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Rendering yourself more efficient — either by implementing various productivity techniques or by driving yourself harder—won’t generally result in the feeling of having ‘enough time,’ because, all el…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"The problem with trying to make time for everything that feels important—or just for enough of what feels important—is that you definitely never will. The reason isn’t that you haven’t yet discovered…"

-Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

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14. 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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  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. Home in the World: A Memoir

By: Amartya Sen

4.17

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a long-awaited memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and i… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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16. The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

By: Amish Tripathi

4.10

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

Today, He is a God. 4000 years ago, He was just a man. The hunt is on. The sinister Naga wa… read more

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"Fate controls only the weak, Your Highness. The strong mould the providence the want"

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

"Strong people stick to their morals, no matter what the trials and tribulations, Weak people, many a times, do not even realize how low they have sunk."

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

"The opposite of love is not hate. Hate is just love gone bad. The actual opposite of love is apathy. When you don't care a damn as to what happens to the other person."

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

"I don’t believe anything till I’ve seen the proof. For anything without proof, I think we should believe the theory that gives us peace. It doesn’t matter whether the theory is true or not."

-Amish Tripathi, The Secret of the Nagas (Shiva Trilogy, #2)

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17. South vs North: India’s Great Divide

By: Nilakantan RS

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India … read more

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  • society
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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18. False Allies: India's Maharajahs in The Age of Ravi Varma

By: Manu S. Pillai

3.79

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

India?s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Beje… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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19. Price of the Modi Years

By: Aakar Patel

4.50

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the poli… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
"The creed of Hindutva that shapes Modi’s worldview says nothing original or new regarding modern government, if it says anything about this at all. It expresses a burning desire to make Bharat Mata g…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

"Ganges, the Carrier of Corpses Don’t worry, be happy, in one voice speak the corpses O King, in your Ram-Rajya, we see bodies flow in the Ganges O King, the woods are ashes, No spots remain at cremat…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

"The Union government from 2014 began systematic harassment and persecution of civil society. This harmed civil society but it also hurt India. NGOs provide the third largest workforce in the United S…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

"Index: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index9 Monitors: Civil liberties, pluralism, political culture and participation, electoral process Method: Global ranking India 2014 ranking: 27 In…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

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20. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977

By: Abhishek Choudhary

4.40

Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition

‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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21. 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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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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23. Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States

By: John Zubrzycki

4.05

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

On 25 July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before the Chamber of Princes … read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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24. I Have the Streets: A Kutti Cricket Story

By: R. Ashwin

4.24

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Ashwin is arguably the greatest match-winner for in Test cricket. The fastest man to 300 Test wicke… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
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25. Karunanidhi: A Life

By: A.S. Panneerselvan

4.32

Format: 429 pages, Kindle Edition

Writer-turned-politician Muthuvel Karunanidhi is amongst the most important political figures India… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
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26. MGR: A Life

By: R. Kannan

3.42

Format: 620 pages, Kindle Edition

Marudur Gopalan Ramachandran, or MGR-founder of the AIADMK founder and three-time chief minister, B… read more

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  • history
  • biography
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27. The Dravidian Years: Politics and Welfare in Tamil Nadu

By: S. Narayan

3.69

Format: 286 pages, Kindle Edition

From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by bac… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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28. Rajaraja Chola King of Kings

By: Kamini Dandapani

4.48

Format: 392 pages, Hardcover

greatest rulers of medieval India. During his reign, the Chola empire expanded through virtually al… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction

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4.36

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R. Kannan

4.22

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Shashi Tharoor

3.63

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Audrey Truschke

3.50

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William Dalrymple

4.34

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The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore

Manu S. Pillai

4.28

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William Dalrymple , Anita Anand

4.04

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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.28

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