13 must-read nonfiction books like The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah

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The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India

By: Alpa Shah

4.54

Format: 743 pages, Kindle Edition

The world’s largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial ru…

If you liked the nonfiction plot in The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Orientalism

By: None , Edward W. Said

4.12

Format: 424 pages, Paperback

More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."

-None, Orientalism

"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."

-None, Orientalism

"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."

-None, Orientalism

"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."

-None, Orientalism

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2. My Name is Red

By: Orhan Pamuk , Erdağ M. Göknar

3.65

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

At once a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, and a brilliant symposium on the powe… read more

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3. The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

By: Orlando Figes

4.81

Format: 539 pages, Hardcover

From the award-winning author of A People's Tragedyand Natasha's Dance, a landmark account of what … read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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4. Human Acts

By: Han Kang , Deborah Smith

4.37

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

From the internationally bestselling author of The Vegetarian, a rare and astonishing (The Observer… read more

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5. Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

By: Nisid Hajari

3.98

Format: None pages, ebook

Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody -- it was supposed to… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction

6. 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

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7. ഖസാക്കിന്റെ ഇതിഹാസം | Khasakkinte Ithihasam

By: O.V. Vijayan

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Khasakkinte Itihasam is a path-breaking Malayalam novel written by the Indian writer O. V. Vijayan.… read more

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8. The First Scientist: Anaximander and His Legacy

By: Carlo Rovelli

3.49

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

"Marvelous. . . . A wonderful book."--Humana.Mente "Rovelli is the dream author to conduct us on th… read more

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9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

By: James Joyce , Seamus Deane

3.64

Format: 329 pages, Paperback

The portrayal of Stephen Dedalus's Dublin childhood and youth, his quest for identity through art a… read more

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"My heart is quite calm now. I will go back."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"Are you not weary of ardent ways? Tell no more of enchanted days."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

"He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place."

-James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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10. Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

By: Naomi Klein

4.22

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you a… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Our role here on earth is not simply to maximize the advantage in our lives. It’s to maximize (protect, regenerate) all of life. We are here not just to make sure we as individuals survive, but to ma…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

"A state of shock is what happens to us- individually or as a society- when we experience a sudden and unprecedented event for which we do not yet have adequate explanation. At its essence, a shock is…"

-Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

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11. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

By: Steven Levitsky

4.15

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Donald Trump's presidency has raised a question that many of us never thought we'd be asking: Is ou… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Authoritarian politicians cast their rivals as criminal, subversive, unpatriotic, or a threat to national security or the existing way of life."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"The drift into authoritarianism doesn’t always set off alarm bells. Citizens are often slow to realize that their democracy is being dismantled even as it happens before their eyes."

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"Institutions become political weapons, wielded forcefully by those who control them against those who do not. This is how elected autocrats subvert democracy—packing and “weaponizing"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

"But when faced with a would-be authoritarian, establishment politicians must unambiguously reject him or her and do everything possible to defend democratic institutions—even if that means temporaril…"

-Steven Levitsky, How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future

Cover of The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017 by Rashid Khalidi

12. 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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  • politics
  • nonfiction
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13. Qabar

By: K.R. Meera

3.95

Format: 111 pages, Hardcover

As the foundations are laid for a temple to rise on the site of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, voices ris… read more

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  • india
Cover of Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance by Karthik Muralidharan

14. Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance

By: Karthik Muralidharan

4.60

Format: 978 pages, Kindle Edition

Seventy-five years after Independence, India has much to be proud of. We are both the world’s bigge… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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15. H-Pop : The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars

By: Kunal Purohit

4.25

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

" Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the g… read more

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  • politics
  • india
  • nonfiction
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16. Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

By: Christophe Jaffrelot

3.97

Format: 656 pages, Hardcover

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy towa… read more

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  • india
  • nonfiction
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17. Kamal Haasan: A Cinematic Journey

By: K. Hariharan

3.62

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

In many ways, Kamal Haasan is unique. One of the greatest actors India has ever produced, he has us… read more

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18. The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India

By: Alpa Shah

4.54

Format: 743 pages, Kindle Edition

The world’s largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial ru… read more

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  • india
  • nonfiction
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19. The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid

By: Anand Teltumbde

4.48

Format: 214 pages, Hardcover

While the caste system has been formally abolished under the Indian constitution, according to offi… read more

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20. The New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy

By: Rahul Bhatia

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

The New India is the unforgettable account of the struggle between modern forces and ancient ideas … read more

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21. The Law Of Force: The Violent Heart of Indian Politics

By: Thomas Blom Hansen

3.93

Format: 108 pages, Kindle Edition

The Law of Force is a searing critique of the illiberal and violent forces that continue to dominat… read more

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12 Best politics books like The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah

Transform Your Habits

Orientalism

None , Edward W. Said

4.12

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The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia

Orlando Figes

4.81

Transform Your Habits

Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition

Nisid Hajari

3.98

Transform Your Habits

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein

4.22

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11 Top 20th century books like A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce, Seamus Deane

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To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

3.80

Transform Your Habits

A Passage to India

E.M. Forster , Pankaj Mishra , Oliver Stallybrass

3.68

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The Crying of Lot 49

Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Transform Your Habits

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf , Maureen Howard

3.79

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