13 Best india books like Antigod’s Own Country: A Short History of Brahminical Colonisation of Kerala by A.V. Sakthidharan

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Antigod’s Own Country: A Short History of Brahminical Colonisation of Kerala

By: A.V. Sakthidharan

4.10

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

What is the history of those depicted as asuras in India? What happens when Adivasi, Dravidian, Bud…

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1. The Art of War

By: Sun Tzu , Thomas Cleary

3.95

Format: 170 pages, Paperback

Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chines… read more

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"Never venture, never win!"

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"Danger has a bracing effect."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"The wise warrior avoids the battle."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

"If his forces are united, separate them."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

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2. Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Gregory Rabassa

3.97

Format: 120 pages, Paperback

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place twenty-seven years earlier, determined… read more

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"الشرف هو الحب" , هكذا كنت أسمع أمي تقول"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"Ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía"

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"...ningún lugar de la vida es más triste que una cama vacía."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

"He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard."

-Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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3. A Fine Balance

By: Rohinton Mistry

4.37

Format: 603 pages, Paperback

With a compassionate realism and narrative sweep that recall the work of Charles Dickens, this magn… read more

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"Time had changed the magical to mundane"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"Marriage is like death, only happens once."

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

"the secret of survival was to balance hope and despair"

-Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance

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4. One Part Woman

By: பெருமாள் முருகன் , Aniruddhan Vasudevan , Perumal Murugan , Deepa Samuel

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

All of Kali and Ponna’s efforts to conceive a child—from prayers to penance, potions to pilgrimages… read more

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"There is no female without the male, and no male without the female. The world goes on only when they come together."

-பெருமாள் முருகன், One Part Woman

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5. 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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  • 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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6. The Wretched of the Earth

By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha

4.32

Format: 251 pages, Paperback

A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."

-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth

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7. Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

4.36

Format: None pages, Paperback

SITA : AN ILLUSTRATED RETELLING OF THE RAMAYANA It is significant that the only character in Hindu … read more

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Cover of Seeking Begumpura by Gail Omvedt, Omvedt Gail

8. Seeking Begumpura

By: Gail Omvedt , Omvedt Gail

3.81

Format: 215 pages, Hardcover

The bhakti radical Ravidas (c 1450-1520), calling himself a 'tanner now set free', was the first to… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • india
  • history
Cover of What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami, Philip Gabriel

9. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

By: Haruki Murakami , Philip Gabriel

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.… read more

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  • nonfiction
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10. An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

By: Shashi Tharoor

3.63

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and del… read more

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  • india
  • history

11. The Prophet

By: Kahlil Gibran

4.01

Format: 511 pages, Paperback

Kahlil Gibran's masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Publishe… read more

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12. Jazz

By: Toni Morrison

4.51

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

In the winter of 1926, when everybody everywhere sees nothing but good things ahead, Joe Trace, mid… read more

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13. Jackdaws

By: Ken Follett

4.13

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

In his own bestselling tradition of Eye of the Needleand The Key to Rebecca, Ken Follett once again… read more

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14. Ashoka: the Search for India's Lost Emperor

By: Charles Allen

4.08

Format: None pages, Hardcover

India's lost emperor Ashoka Maurya has a special place in history. In his quest to govern India by … read more

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15. The God of Small Things

By: Arundhati Roy

3.96

Format: 321 pages, Paperback

The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, a skyblue Plymouth with… read more

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"If you're happy in a dream, does that count?"

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"His gratitude widened his smile and bent his back."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"Thirty-one. Not old. Not young. But a viable die-able age."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things

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16. The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Gareth Stedman Jones

3.66

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today Originally published on the eve of th… read more

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"The bourgeois sees in his wife a mere instrument of production."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Study of the past often turns into love of the past and a desire to keep it."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps"

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

"The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

-Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

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17. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

18. Shivaji: The Grand Rebel

By: Dennis Kincaid

3.80

Format: 220 pages,

A great warrior and skilled administrator, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, better known as Shivaji, wa… read more

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19. Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

By: Amy Wallace , Ed Catmull

2.83

Format: 24 pages, Hardcover

"What does it mean to manage well?" From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter)… read more

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20. 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

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21. The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State

By: Josy Joseph

4.39

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

‘They were not expected to behave like the terrorists they were hunting. Even in the thickest fog o… read more

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Cover of Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living by Héctor  García

22. Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

By: Héctor García

3.86

Format: None pages, Hardcover

3 Books Collection Set: Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life The people of Ja… read more

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"Walk slowly and you’ll go far"

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"Keep going; don’t change your path."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"Happiness is always determined by your heart."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

"when you have a clear purpose, no one can stop you."

-Héctor García, Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life / The Little Book of Lykke / Lagom: The Swedish Art of Balanced Living

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23. Poonachi: Or the Story of a Black Goat

By: Perumal Murugan

4.11

Format: 179 pages, Kindle Edition

Through a seeming act of providence, an old couple receives a day-old female goat kid as a gift fro… read more

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Cover of Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence by Shrayana Bhattacharya

24. 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

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25. Intimations

By: Zadie Smith

3.99

Format: 97 pages, Paperback

Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of loc… read more

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"Strange inversions proliferate."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"When in the presence of a child, get on the floor."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

"The enviable style of the young is little protection against catastrophe."

-Zadie Smith, Intimations

Cover of Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir by Yashica Dutt

26. Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

By: Yashica Dutt

4.25

Format: 223 pages, Kindle Edition

Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s tragic suicide in January 2016 started many charged conversations aro… read more

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"As I walked to the Barnard main gate, I saw sharply dressed young couples lining up to take photos in front of the huge Ambedkar poster. That's when it finally stuck me: Ambedkar was an icon, a celeb…"

-Yashica Dutt, Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir

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27. 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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28. The Courtesan, the Mahatma and the Italian Brahmin: Tales from Indian History

By: Manu S. Pillai

3.96

Format: 398 pages, Kindle Edition

From a Maratha prince who parodied caste to a Muslim deity in a Hindu temple; from a courtesan who … read more

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29. Antigod’s Own Country: A Short History of Brahminical Colonisation of Kerala

By: A.V. Sakthidharan

4.10

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

What is the history of those depicted as asuras in India? What happens when Adivasi, Dravidian, Bud… read more

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Cover of Gangster State: The Rise and Fall of the CPI(M) in West Bengal by Sourjya Bhowmick

30. Gangster State: The Rise and Fall of the CPI(M) in West Bengal

By: Sourjya Bhowmick

3.74

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

Gripping' SHASHI THAROOR'First-rate' AAKAR PATEL'Illuminating' RUPAM ISLAMAllured by the unrestrict… read more

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31. The Shudra: A Philosophical Narrative of Indian Superhumanism

By: Jalalul Haq

3.71

Format: 284 pages, Paperback

Vedic literature has the same word for both man and God—purusha. The Vedic seers ritually sacrifice… read more

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