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Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India

By: Venkat Dhulipala

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

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1. The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower

By: Michael Pillsbury

4.21

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

One of the U.S. government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country… read more

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2. Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

By: Chris Miller

4.44

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

An epic account of the decades-long battle to control what has emerged as the world's most critical… read more

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"Comrade, we have built the world’s biggest microprocessor!"

-Chris Miller, Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

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3. 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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4. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

By: J. Sai Deepak

4.46

Format: 472 pages, Hardcover

India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of Europea… read more

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"The spiritual character of the relationship between indigeneity and nature is an emotion that the coloniser can at best exoticise but can never relate to."

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"Rest of the world was not living in the Dark Ages before Pax Europaea or European Peace, and will certainly not plunge into ignorance and darkness after the demise of Pax Europaea. Therefore, it is t…"

-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

"Until a decolonial approach is employed by experts and ‘intellectuals’, we will continue to see the entrenchment of colonialised identities and fissures, which began with an anti-Brahmin slant but wh…"

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"The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millenn…"

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5. What I Learned About Investing from Darwin

By: Pulak Prasad

4.58

Format: 328 pages, Hardcover

The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are un… read more

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6. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

By: Catherine Nixey

4.06

Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition

The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more

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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"

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"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"

-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World

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7. India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation (Bharat Trilogy #2)

By: J. Sai Deepak

4.63

Format: 568 pages, Hardcover

India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward fro… read more

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8. Bravehearts of Bharat: Vignettes from Indian History

By: Vikram Sampath

4.52

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen Brave Men and Women of Bharat, who Never Succumbed to the Challenges of Invaders But Lo… read more

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9. 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

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10. 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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11. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India

By: Venkat Dhulipala

4.36

Format: 544 pages, Kindle Edition

This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and ho… read more

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12. Snakes in the Ganga: Breaking India 2.0

By: Rajiv Malhotra

4.26

Format: 864 pages, Hardcover

Snakes in the Ganga unveils uncomfortable truths concerning India’s vulnerabilities: Intense warfa… read more

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