Chequered Brilliance
By: Jairam Ramesh
4.05
Format: 744 pages, Hardcover
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1. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.39
Format: 912 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more
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"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
2. India's Wars: A Military History 1947-1971
By: Arjun Subramaniam
2.86
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
The armed forces occupy a special position in Indian society. Yet, standard accounts of contemporar… read more
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3. Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
By: Arundhati Roy
3.00
Format: 12 pages,
"Gorgeously wrought . . . pitch-perfect prose. . . . In language of terrible beauty, she takes Indi… read more
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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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5. The Emergency: A Personal History
By: Coomi Kapoor
4.04
Format: 192 pages,
In June 1975, Coomi Kapoor was a young reporter at the Indian Express in Delhi, when Indira Gandhi … read more
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6. The Accidental Prime Minister
By: Sanjaya Baru
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In 2004 Sanjaya Baru left a successful career as chief editor of the Financial Express to join Prim… read more
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7. The Polyester Prince: The Rise of Dhirubhai Ambani
By: Hamish McDonald
5.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fascinating biography of Indian textile tycoon Dhirubhai Ambani, this book is the story of a risi… read more
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8. The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
By: J. Maarten Troost
4.40
Format: None pages,
At the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock … read more
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9. Slender Was the Thread: Kashmir Confrontation 1947-48
By: L.P. Sen
3.46
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A factual account of the role of the famous 161 Indian Infantry Brigade in saving Kashmir from the … read more
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10. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
By: William L. Shirer
4.21
Format: 1147 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Hitler boasted that The Third Reich would last a thousand years. It lasted only 12. But those 12 ye… read more
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"One of them was Fritz Thyssen, one of the earliest and biggest contributors to the party. Fleeing the "Nazi regime has ruined German industry." And to all he met abroad he proclaimed, "What a fool ( …"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"To some Germans and, no doubt, to most foreigners it appeared that a charlatan had come to power in Berlin. To the majority of Germans Hitler had — or would shortly assume — the aura of a truly chari…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electr…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
"Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of the empires which set out on the path taken ea…"-William L. Shirer, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany
11. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
By: Randall Munroe
4.14
Format: 303 pages, Hardcover
Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, … read more
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"A darkened Sun would liberate us from the parsnip threat."-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"So Yoda sounds like our best bet as an energy source. But with world electricity consumption pushing 2 terawatts, it would take a hundred million Yodas to meet our demands. All things considered, swi…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
"But what about gender and sexual orientation? And culture? And language? We could keep using demographics to try to narrow things down further, but we would be drifting away from the idea of a random…"-Randall Munroe, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
12. The Last Nizam: An Indian Prince In The Australian Outback
By: John Zubrzycki
2.88
Format: 29 pages, Hardcover
This is a lucid and compelling history of one of India's most wealthy dynasties and one of its most… read more
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13. 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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14. 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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15. Devil's Advocate: The Untold Story
By: Karan Thapar
3.72
Format: 200 pages, Kindle Edition
Sometime in the late summer of 1976, Sanjay Gandhi asked if I wanted to go flying with him... After… read more
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16. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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17. 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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"[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
18. 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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19. The Commissioner For Lost Causes
By: Arun Shourie
3.91
Format: 616 pages, Hardcover
The work done by Arun Shourie and his colleagues rocked institutions and the freeing of 40,000 und… read more
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20. Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping
By: François Bougon
3.67
Format: 148 pages, Kindle Edition
Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Litt… read more
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21. Chequered Brilliance
By: Jairam Ramesh
4.05
Format: 744 pages, Hardcover
This is a compelling biography of one of India's most controversial and consequential public figure… read more
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22. Hero of Kumaon: The Life of Jim Corbett
By: Duff Hart-Davis
4.06
Format: 277 pages, Kindle Edition
Jim Corbett became the hero of thousands of impoverished local families in the remote Indian regio… read more
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23. Rethinking Public Institutions in India
By: Devesh Kapur
4.11
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
This work analyzes the challenges of governance faced by contemporary India. It argues that while t… read more
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24. Indian Nuclear Policy: Oxford India Short Introductions (Oxford India Short Introductions Series)
By: Harsh V. Pant
4.50
Format: 218 pages, Paperback
India's first Prime, Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, laid the foundations of an elaborate atomic energy … read more
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