9 Best politics books like Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle

Cover of Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle

Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

By: Janaki Bakhle

3.63

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism Vinayak Damodar Savar…

If you liked the politics plot in Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) by Elizabeth Strout

1. Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

By: Elizabeth Strout

3.85

Format: 270 pages, Hardcover

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Olive Kitteridge offers profound insights into the human condition – … read more

Similar categories in Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1) book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

"The appetites of the body were private battles."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"She had spells of manic loquaciousness, followed by days of silence."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"It seems to Henry, as he takes his seat in his usual middle pew, that women are far braver than men"

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

"Don't be scared of your hunger. If you're scared of your hunger, you'll just be one more ninny like everyone else."

-Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

Cover of Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth by Audrey Truschke

2. 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

Similar categories in Audrey Truschke's Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history

3. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

By: Ilan Pappé

3.98

Format: 296 pages, Hardcover

Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more

Similar categories in Ilan Pappé's The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

4. Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)

By: Amitav Ghosh

3.89

Format: 440 pages, Paperback

At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage acro… read more

Similar categories in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1) book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

Cover of Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid) by Anand Ranganathan

5. 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

Similar categories in Anand Ranganathan's Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid) book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
"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)

Cover of India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution by J. Sai Deepak

6. 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

Similar categories in J. Sai Deepak's India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
"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…"

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

"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…"

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

Cover of Victory City by Salman Rushdie

7. 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

Similar categories in Salman Rushdie's Victory City book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • india
"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

Cover of Azadi by Arundhati Roy

8. Azadi

By: Arundhati Roy

4.10

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the best-selling author of My Seditious Heart and the Ministry of Utmost Happiness, a new and … read more

Similar categories in Arundhati Roy's Azadi book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
"...as the Covid-19 pandemic burns through us, our world is passing through a portal. We have journeyed to a place from which it looks unlikely that we can return, at least not without some kind of se…"

-Arundhati Roy, Azadi

Cover of Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From by Tony Joseph

9. Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From

By: Tony Joseph

4.33

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

Who are we Indians ? Where did we come from ? Many of us believe our ancestors have lived in South … read more

Similar categories in Tony Joseph's Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • history
Cover of Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 by Vikram Sampath

10. Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966

By: Vikram Sampath

4.72

Format: 600 pages, Hardcover

Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political… read more

Similar categories in Vikram Sampath's Savarkar: A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966 book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
Cover of Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 by Vikram Sampath

11. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

By: Vikram Sampath

4.58

Format: 624 pages, Hardcover

As the intellectual fountainhead of the ideology of Hindutva, which is in political ascendancy in I… read more

Similar categories in Vikram Sampath's Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
"In a rare approach of postulating a broad humanitarian acceptance, Vinayak always emphasized that he or his associates must not hate the British; that they should be considered enemies only till the …"

-Vikram Sampath, Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924

Cover of Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages by Peggy Mohan

12. 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

Similar categories in Peggy Mohan's Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • history
  • india
"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

Cover of Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. by Nicholas B. Dirks

13. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.

By: Nicholas B. Dirks

3.77

Format: 328 pages, Paperback

When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, ca… read more

Similar categories in Nicholas B. Dirks's Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
Cover of Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle

14. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

By: Janaki Bakhle

3.63

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism Vinayak Damodar Savar… read more

Similar categories in Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

  • politics
  • india
  • history
Cover of Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History by Vinayak Chaturvedi

15. Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History

By: Vinayak Chaturvedi

4.50

Format: 614 pages, Kindle Edition

Hindutva and Violence explores the place of history in the political thought of Vinayak Damodar Sav… read more

Similar categories in Vinayak Chaturvedi's Hindutva and Violence: V. D. Savarkar and the Politics of History book and Janaki Bakhle's Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva

10 Best history books like Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva by Janaki Bakhle

Transform Your Habits

Aurangzeb: The Man and the Myth

Audrey Truschke

3.50

Transform Your Habits

Hindus in Hindu Rashtra (Eighth-Class Citizens and Victims of State-Sanctioned Apartheid)

Anand Ranganathan

4.48

Transform Your Habits

India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution

J. Sai Deepak

4.46

Transform Your Habits

Azadi

Arundhati Roy

4.10

View all the books

5 best-selling audiobook books like Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 by Vikram Sampath

Transform Your Habits

The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.28

Transform Your Habits

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

William Dalrymple

4.20

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom

Sanjeev Sanyal

4.63

Transform Your Habits

The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace (The Shortest History Series)

Michael Scott-Baumann

4.12

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.