The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
By: Scott R. Stroud
4.61
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey’s pragmatism. In The …
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1. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
By: Hannah Arendt
4.20
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
Originally appearing as a series of articles in The New Yorker, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and s… read more
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- history
"Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"During the war, the lie most effective with the whole of the German people was the slogan of “the battle of destiny for the German people"-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"In the Third Reich evil lost its distinctive characteristic by which most people had until then recognized it. The Nazis redefined it as a civil norm."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
"It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent."-Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
2. Invisible Man
By: Ralph Ellison
3.91
Format: 581 pages, Paperback
First published in 1952 and immediately hailed as a masterpiece, Invisible Man is one of those rare… read more
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"When I discover who I am, I’ll be free."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"You're very insistent, but I'm very busy."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"They could laugh at him but they couldn't ignore him"-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
"I could hardly get to sleep for dreaming of revenge."-Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
3. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
By: Amartya Sen
3.83
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual… read more
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- history
- india
"While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!"-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- history
5. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By: Richard Rothstein
2.89
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein, a leading auth… read more
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- history
6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- history
7. The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation
By: Granville Austin
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Paperback
The Indian Constitution provides a history of the Indian Constituent Assembly. It discusses how and… read more
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- india
8. The Glass Pearls
By: Emeric Pressburger
3.66
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Karl Braun is a slight, grey-haired man who lodges in West London and works as a tuner for a firm o… read more
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9. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky
By: Noam Chomsky , None , None
3.29
Format: None pages, Paperback
The best of Chomsky's recent talks on the past, present, and future of the politics of power. In a … read more
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10. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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12. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
By: Jared Diamond
3.68
Format: 113 pages, Paperback
'Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope . . . one of the most important and readable works … read more
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13. The Devotion of Suspect X
By: Keigo Higashino , Alexander O. Smith
3.92
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husb… read more
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14. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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- history
"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
15. The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
By: Shehan Karunatilaka
3.92
Format: 386 pages, Hardcover
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida—war photographer, gambler, and closet queen—has woken up dead in what … read more
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"Even suicide requires perseverance."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Why should a Creator watch over you? Wasn't creating you enough?"-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"You were simply a handsome man who enjoyed beautiful boys. Nothing more, nothing less and no one's business."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
"Despair always begins as a snack that you nibble on when bored and then becomes a meal that you have thrice a day."-Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
16. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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- biography
"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
17. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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18. Victory City
By: Salman Rushdie
3.80
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Hidden in a clay pot. Sealed with wax. Buried at the heart of a ruined palace amidst the ashes of o… read more
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"History is a consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"History is the consequence not only of people’s actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"fHistory is the consequence not only of people's actions, but also of their forgetfulness."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
"In death do triumph and failure humbly meet. We learn far less from victory than from defeat."-Salman Rushdie, Victory City
19. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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- history
20. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India
By: Nikhil Menon
3.93
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more
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21. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
By: Shrayana Bhattacharya
4.29
Format: 384 pages, None
In this pathbreaking work, Shrayana Bhattacharya maps the economic and personal trajectories--the j… read more
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"These women relied on Shah Rukh when they found the real world and all its pandemics and practicalities inhospitable. Because only the deepest dissatisfaction with reality drives us to dwell in fanta…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Fantasizing about an impossibly idealized kind of love they’d seen an actor perform on-screen. Yet, all their real-world efforts were extremely pragmatic, often sacrificing the love they fantasized a…"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
"Critics often say that DDLJ, with its emphasis on patriarchal permission for young love, discourages dissent. This argument narrows the space for dissent by legitimizing it only in its most blatant, …"-Shrayana Bhattacharya, Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
22. The Life and Times of George Fernandes: Many Peaks of a Political Life
By: Rahul Ramagundam
4.05
Format: 624 pages, Hardcover
Since the time he left his coastal town of Mangalore and came to Bombay (now, Mumbai), more than se… read more
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- biography
23. 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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24. The Cooking of Books: A Literary Memoir
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.28
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
It is not often that an author and his editor strike up a relationship which survives forty years o… read more
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25. A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B.R. Ambedkar
By: Ashok Gopal
4.59
Format: 864 pages, Hardcover
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891–1956) is perhaps the most iconised historical figure in India. Born in… read more
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26. Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
By: Peggy Mohan
4.19
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if … read more
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"In a grandiose sweep that demolished history itself, Sanskrit was put forward as the ancestor of not just this brand new ‘Shuddh’ Hindi, but the ‘Mother of all languages’. We still find otherwise tho…"-Peggy Mohan, Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
27. The Last Heroes: Foot Soldiers of Indian Freedom
By: Palagummi Sainath
4.31
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
So who really spearheaded India’s Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people—farmers, labourers,… read more
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28. Nehru: The Debates That Defined India
By: Tripurdaman Singh
3.87
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
From being elected as Congress president in 1929 till his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remained … read more
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29. The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded … read more
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"Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people and share the flaws of their builders."-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
"People in the West need to know that most of the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural products of South Asia are tainted by Brahmanism. What may have offered you liberation and healing also causes c…"-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
30. The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: Ambedkar, Dewey, and the Rhetoric of Reconstruction
By: Scott R. Stroud
4.61
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the Indian reformer Bhimrao Ambedkar reimagined John Dewey’s pragmatism. In The … read more
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31. Toward a Free Economy: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Aditya Balasubramanian
4.38
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
A history of economic conservatism in India after independence Neoliberalism is routinely charac… read more
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