6 Best nonfiction books like The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 5) by John F. Richards

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The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 5)

By: John F. Richards

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume …

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 5) by John F. Richards , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. The Goblin Emperor

By: Katherine Addison

3.84

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

A vividly imagined fantasy of court intrigue and dark magics in a steampunk-inflected world, by a b… read more

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2. The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company

By: John Keay

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into… read more

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  • india
  • nonfiction
  • history
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3. India: A History

By: John Keay

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South… read more

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  • india
  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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4. His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

By: Naomi Novik

4.06

Format: 356 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Aerial combat brings a thrilling new dimension to the Napoleonic Wars as valiant warriors ride migh… read more

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"I am sure I could not have liked any French captain half so much as you"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on."

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

"I am never going to let anyone take you away from me.' 'Nor I, my dear,' Laurence said, smiling"

-Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)

5. You're the One That I Want (Gossip Girl, #6)

By: Cecily von Ziegesar

3.97

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in gorgeous apartments, go … read more

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6. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more

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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

7. The Farthest Shore (Earthsea Cycle, #3)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Book Three of Ursula K. Le Guin's Earthsea CycleDarkness threatens to overtake Earthsea: the world … read more

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8. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

By: Charles C. Mann

4.23

Format: 11 pages, Paperback

A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival o… read more

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9. Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

By: Cecily von Ziegesar

3.51

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Welcome to New York City’s Upper East Side, where my friends and I live, go to school, play, and sl… read more

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"I don't eat chicken abortions!"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

"Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

"Oh, don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!"

-Cecily von Ziegesar, Gossip Girl (Gossip Girl, #1)

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10. Foundation (Foundation, #1)

By: Isaac Asimov

4.17

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

The first novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series Fo… read more

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"Past glories are poor feeding."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Weak emperors mean strong viceroys. "

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"I shall not be alive a half decade hence,"

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

-Isaac Asimov, Foundation (Foundation, #1)

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11. 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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  • india
  • nonfiction
  • history
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12. Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

By: Tamsyn Muir

4.29

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Harrow the Ninth, the sequel to Gideon the Ninth, turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer stru… read more

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"Bones are mediocre."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I remember being eighteen."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"Your only settings were power-vomit and murder"

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

"I am sick of roses, and I am horny for revenge."

-Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)

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13. India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

By: Richard M. Eaton

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Hardcover

Protected by vast mountains and seas, the Indian subcontinent might seem a nearly complete and self… read more

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  • history
  • islam
  • indian literature
  • india
  • nonfiction
"[D]uring the years 1219-21 Genghis Khan, the founder of the Mongol empire in eastern Asia, burst into western Asia. Offended by the insolent behaviour of the same ruler of Khwarazm who a few years ea…"

-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

"In addition, Sultan Iltumish, for all his rhetoric of being India's sole legitimate Muslim ruler, continued to issue coins with the old bull-and-horseman motif and a Sanskritized form of his name and…"

-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

"[T]he demonization of Mahmud [of Ghazni] and the portrayal of his raid on Somnath as an assault on Indian religion by Muslim invaders dates only from the early 1840s. In 1842 the British East Indian …"

-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

"['A]lamgir [Aurangzeb] came to formulate a very different model of sovereignty for himself and for the empire he ruled. In this new dispensation, the kingdom would be governed not by a charismatic, s…"

-Richard M. Eaton, India in the Persianate Age, 1000–1765

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14. Coromandel: A Personal History of South India

By: Charles Allen

3.85

Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition

COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more… read more

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  • indian literature
  • nonfiction
  • history
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15. The Mughal Empire (The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 1, Part 5)

By: John F. Richards

3.63

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume … read more

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  • nonfiction

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