Wanderings in India and other sketches of life in Hindostan
By: John Lang
3.71
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with a… read more
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"The noble soul reveres itself"-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"...all that is rare is for the rare."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"One is punished most for one’s virtues."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
"In music the passions enjoy themselves."-Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
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
3. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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4. The Post Office
By: Rabindranath Tagore , None
4.09
Format: 74 pages, Paperback
This vintage book contains Rabindranath Tagore's 1912 play, 'The Post Office'. The play revolves ar… read more
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"If only they let me, I'll go right into the dense forest where you can't find your way. And where the honey-sipping hummingbird rocks himself on the end of the thinnest branch, I will flower out as a…"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office
"The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings—and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their cro…"-Rabindranath Tagore, The Post Office
5. Ikigai
By: Francesc Miralles , Héctor García
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
"Only staying active will make you want to live a hundred years." --Japanese proverb According to t… read more
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6. Freedom at Midnight
By: Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins
4.20
Format: 32 pages,
A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India. read more
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7. राग दरबारी
By: None
5.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
raagdrbaarii ek aisaa upnyaas hai jo gaaNv kii kthaa ke maadhym se aadhunik bhaartiiy jiivn kii muu… read more
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8. 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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9. Gaban
By: Munshi Premchand , मुंशी प्रेमचंद
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gaban, one of the most celebrate d novels of Munshi Premchand, was first published in 1931. It tell… read more
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10. Interpreter of Maladies
By: Jhumpa Lahiri
4.17
Format: 198 pages, Hardcover
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here Navigating between the Indian tra… read more
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"Sexy means loving someone you do not know."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"You got cats at home?" "No cats. Only a husband."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"A woman who had fallen out of love with her life"-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
"In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time."-Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
11. Midnight’s Children
By: Salman Rushdie
3.98
Format: 647 pages, Paperback
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here. Saleem Sinai is born at the stroke… read more
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"Life again refused to remain lifesized"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake"-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence."-Salman Rushdie, Midnight’s Children
12. Chai, Chai
By: Bishwanath Ghosh
3.60
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Biswanath Ghosh paints an amazing and mystical picture in this book, where he starts his journey fr… read more
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13. Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give hi… read more
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14. The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1)
By: G.K. Chesterton
0.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Chesterton portrays Father Brown as a short, stumpy Roman Catholic priest, with shapeless clothes a… read more
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16. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War
By: Ben Macintyre
4.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a warm July evening in 1985, a middle-aged man stood on the pavement of a busy avenue in the hea… read more
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17. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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18. 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)
19. 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
20. Dopamine Detox : A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Get Your Brain to Do Hard Things (Productivity Series Book 1)
By: Thibaut Meurisse
4.01
Format: 62 pages, Kindle Edition
Reclaim your focus in 48 hours or less. Do you keep procrastinating? Do you feel restless and un… read more
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21. Days on the Road: Crossing the Plains in 1865
By: Sarah Raymond Herndon
3.84
Format: 176 pages, Kindle Edition
“Why are we here? Why have we left home, friends, relatives, associates, and loved ones, who have m… read more
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22. Ultimate Deceit (Jack Kane Thrillers #2)
By: Dan Stone
4.45
Format: 357 pages, Kindle Edition
If you like Mark Dawson, Steven Leather, Robert Ludlum's Jason Bourne and Lee Child's Jack Reacher,… read more
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23. The Battle of Rezang La
By: Kulpreet Yadav
4.48
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
On 18 November 1962, the Charlie Company of the 13 Kumaon Battalion, Kumaon Regiment, fought a Chin… read more
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24. Being Hindu In Bangladesh: The Untold Story
By: Deep Halder
4.20
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
For those who carry the scars of Partition, more than seven decades after arbitrary lines scarred t… read more
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25. Zero to Billions - The Zerodha Story: An inspiring story on how a startup disrupted the Indian Stock Market (Indian Unicorns)
By: ABHISH B
4.15
Format: 52 pages, Kindle Edition
Zerodha is the largest brokerage firm in India. It has the largest number of active clients and the… read more
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26. British social life in India, 1608-1937
By: Dennis Kincaid
3.64
Format: 344 pages, Hardcover
This Classic Account, First Published In 1938, Describes The Ways In Which The British Lived In Ind… read more
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27. Wanderings in India and other sketches of life in Hindostan
By: John Lang
3.71
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
Wanderings in India and other sketches of life in Hindostan. This book, "Wanderings in India and ot… read more
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28. To Hell And Back: Humans of COVID
By: Barkha Dutt
4.16
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
Since 2020, our world has battled a single enemy – the coronavirus. In dealing with the pandemic, I… read more
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29. 21 Short Tales
By: Franz Kafka
3.57
Format: 49 pages, Kindle Edition
A selection of twenty-one pieces of Kafka's short fiction in a new (2011) English translation. Rang… read more
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30. Beyond Reasonable Doubt
By: Ranjit Mishra
3.63
Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition
When Salman Curtis set foot on the steamer bound from London to Calcutta, he had no inkling of the … read more
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31. Tales From The Raj: Short Stories From British India
By: Thomas R.M. Webbe
3.67
Format: 132 pages, Kindle Edition
Tales from the Raj is a collection of 7 Short Stories set in British India. These include short sto… read more
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