Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse
By: Meenakshi Jain
4.52
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
After making history with her book on the Ayodhya controversy, Rama and Ayodhya (2013), Prof. Meena…
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1. Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
By: Bhagat Singh , K.C. Yadav , Babar Singh
4.43
Format: 91 pages, Hardcover
Autobiography of an Indian revolutionary and freedom fighter. read more
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"LIFE IS LIVE ITS OWN..OTHERS HELP IS NEEDED IN FUNERALS ONLY"-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
"But man's duty is to try and endeavour, success depends upon chance and environments."-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
"I know in the present circumstances my faith in God would have made my life easier, my burden lighter, and my disbelief in Him has turned all the circumstances too dry, and the situation may assume t…"-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
"So that when man can be in great distress having been betrayed and deserted by all friends he may find consolation in the idea that an ever true friend was still there to help him, to support him and…"-Bhagat Singh, Why I Am An Atheist: An Autobiographical Discourse
2. The Selfish Gene
By: Richard Dawkins
4.16
Format: 360 pages, Paperback
"The Selfish Gene" caused a wave of excitement among biologists and the general public when it was … read more
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"Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"What shall it profit a male if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his immortal genes?"-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
"I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene."-Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
3. 'The Heathen in His Blindness...': Asia, the West and the Dynamic of Religion
By: S.N. Balagangadhara
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Today, most intellectuals agree that (a) Christianity has profoundly influenced western culture; (b… read more
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4. The Palace of Illusions
By: Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A reimagining of the world-famous Indian epic, the Mahabharat--told from the point of view of an am… read more
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5. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
By: William Dalrymple
4.20
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The story of how the East India Company took over large swaths of Asia, and the devastating results… read more
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6. 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
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"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)
7. 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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8. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
By: S. Jaishankar
3.96
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
The decade from the 2008 global financial crisis to the 2020 coronavirus pandemic has seen a real t… read more
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"Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
"Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
"India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
"Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order."-S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World
9. 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…"-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
10. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
By: David A. Sinclair
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more
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11. 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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12. 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
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13. 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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14. 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
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"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
15. Waiting for Shiva: Unearthing the Truth of Kashi’s Gyan Vapi
By: Vikram Sampath
4.68
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
Few places in the world carry the heavy burden of history as effortlessly as Kashi, or Varanasi, ha… read more
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16. DEVI FOR MILLENNIALS
By: Bibek Debroy
4.47
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
‘Devi’s constant presence motivated the book. She is the one who made me write it. She is the one w… read more
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17. MAHARANAS: A Thousand Year War for Dharma
By: Omendra Ratnu
4.58
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The book that is going to become as sacred as scriptures in each Hindu home. The book that will des… read more
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18. The South African Gandhi: Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
By: Ashwin Desai
4.22
Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition
A biography detailing Gandhi’s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in t… read more
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19. A History Of India As It Happened Not As It Has Been Written
By: François Gautier
4.11
Format: 234 pages, Hardcover
Indian History has to be rewritten according to the latest linguistic and archaeological discoverie… read more
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20. The Imperishable Seed: How Hindu Mathematics Changed the World and Why this History was Erased
By: Bhaskar Kamble
4.80
Format: 454 pages, Hardcover
In The Imperishable Seed, Bhaskar Kamble assembles compelling evidence to show how this knowledge w… read more
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21. Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime
By: Veena Talwar Oldenburg
4.08
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The Hindu custom of dowry has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants in India.… read more
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22. Iconic Indians: 75 Extraordinary Individuals Who Inspired the Country
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.19
Format: 360 pages, Hardcover
‘…by Sanjeev Sanyal and Rajesh Singh is a fitting tribute to 75 iconic Indians, some lesser known, … read more
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23. Hindutva: origin, evolution and future
By: Aravindan Neelakandan
4.56
Format: 816 pages, Paperback
"A Magisterial work by Neelakandan to understand what Hindutva actually is and stands for." - Dr. V… read more
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24. हे राम - गाँधी हत्याकांड की प्रामाणिक पड़ताल [Hey Ram - Gandhi Hatyakand ki Pramanik Padtal]
By: Prakhar Shrivastava
4.74
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
गांधी हत्याकांड का सच सिर्फ इतना भर नहीं है कि 30 जनवरी 1948 की एक शाम गोडसे बिड़ला भवन आया और उसने गा… read more
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25. Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse
By: Meenakshi Jain
4.52
Format: 490 pages, Hardcover
After making history with her book on the Ayodhya controversy, Rama and Ayodhya (2013), Prof. Meena… read more
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26. Ten Heads of Ravana: A Critique of Hinduphobic Scholars
By: Rajiv Malhotra
4.38
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
For long, a handful of scholars and intellectual sites, whose understanding of Bhārata is disjointe… read more
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