The Discovery of India
By: Jawaharlal Nehru
4.00
Format: None pages,
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1. India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
By: Ramachandra Guha
4.39
Format: 912 pages, Hardcover
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's… read more
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"In 1951 Dec 20th, Nehru, while campaigning for the first democratic elections in India, took a short break to address a UNESCO symposium in Delhi. Although he believed democracy was the best form of …"-Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
2. City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
By: William Dalrymple , Olivia Fraser
4.12
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Sparkling with irrepressible wit, City of Djinns peels back the layers of Delhi's centuries-old his… read more
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"There was that all-pervasive evening scent of cut grass and jasmine."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"Partition was a total catastrophe for Delhi,’ she said. ‘Those who were left behind are in misery. Those who were uprooted are in misery. The Peace of Delhi is gone. Now it is all gone."-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
"His diaries had begun to assume something of the knowingness of incipient middle age; at times, indeed, he was in danger of becoming priggish and opinionated. As with many later European voyagers, tr…"-William Dalrymple, City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
3. 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
4. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
By: Amartya Sen
3.83
Format: 409 pages, Paperback
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual… read more
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"While we cannot live without history, we need not live within it either."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"It is, in particular, important to distinguish between the inclusionary role of identity and the exclusionary force of separatism."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"Nor let us be resentful when others differ from us. For all men have hearts, and each heart has its own leanings. Their right is our wrong, and our right is their wrong."-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
"It is the True. It is the Self, and thou, O Svetaketu, art it... And just in case thou art not all that, we will fix it with a bit of cleverness in reconstructing reality!"-Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
5. Malgudi Days
By: R.K. Narayan , Jhumpa Lahiri
3.00
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Four gems, with new introductions, mark acclaimed Indian writer R. K. Narayan's centennial Introduc… read more
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6. Gandhi: A Life
By: Yogesh Chadha
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gandhi: A Life reveals the transformation of an ordinary, timid young man, into a leader, whose sta… read more
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7. Nine Lives
By: William Dalrymple
4.23
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
From the author of The Last Mughal and In Xanadu, comes a mesmerizing book that explores how tradit… read more
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8. Freedom at Midnight
By: Dominique Lapierre , Larry Collins
4.20
Format: 32 pages,
A famous, major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Admiral Lord Mountbatten, and the partition of India. read more
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9. The 3 Mistakes of My Life
By: Chetan Bhagat
4.17
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
In late-2000, a young boy in Ahmedabad called Govind dreamt of having a business. To accomodate his… read more
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10. History of Modern India
By: Bipan Chandra
4.73
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Published in the year 2009, History Of Modern India is a book that revolves around the history of B… read more
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11. The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
By: William Dalrymple
4.24
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
On a hazy November afternoon in Rangoon, 1862, a shrouded corpse was escorted by a small group of B… read more
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12. 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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13. Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
By: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam , Arun Tiwari
3.77
Format: None pages,
Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, the son of a little-educated boat-owner in Rameswaram, Tamil N… read more
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14. One Night at the Call Center
By: Chetan Bhagat
3.29
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Press 1 for technical support. Press 2 for broken hearts. Press 3 if your life has totally crashed.… read more
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15. Five Point Someone
By: Chetan Bhagat
3.29
Format: 80 pages,
Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable to cope. The book starts wi… read more
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16. The Discovery of India
By: Jawaharlal Nehru
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17. Swami Vivekananda on Himself
By: Vivekananda
3.71
Format: 234 pages,
This book is a documentation of selected notes and utterances of Swamiji about himself and his work… read more
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18. Train to Pakistan
By: Khushwant Singh
3.85
Format: 128 pages,
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19. A. Lincoln
By: Ronald C. White Jr.
4.30
Format: 816 pages, Hardcover
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Chr… read more
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20. India's Struggle for Independence
By: Bipan Chandra , Aditya Mukherjee , Mridula Mukherjee , None , None
4.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is the first major study to examine every one of the varied strands of the epic struggle indiv… read more
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21. गोदान [Godaan]
By: Munshi Premchand , मुंशी प्रेमचंद
3.53
Format: None pages, Paperback
Godan, a story of stark realism, is Premchand's most outstanding novel. The realism, artistry and t… read more
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22. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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23. Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World
By: Louis Fischer
4.00
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph ov… read more
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24. Einstein: The Life and Times
By: Ronald William Clark
3.89
Format: None pages,
THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY Albert Einstein was far more than the physicist who confidently claimed th… read more
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25. Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata
By: Devdutt Pattanaik
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Paperback
High above the sky stands Swarga, paradise, abode of the gods. Still above is Vaikuntha, heaven, ab… read more
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26. The Story of My Experiments With Truth
By: Mahatma Gandhi
4.29
Format: 426 pages, Paperback
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography h… read more
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27. Why I am an Atheist and Other Works
By: Bhagat Singh
4.41
Format: 129 pages, Kindle Edition
Bhagat Singh is a name that became synonymous with revolution in India’s struggle for Independence.… read more
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"Do you really know the most cursed sin in this world is to be poor? Yes, poverty is a sin; it is a punishment!"-Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist and Other Works
"...life is really humiliating, why don't you try to improve it by agitating? Perhaps, you will say that this struggle would be futile, but this is precisely the argument which is usually used a cover…"-Bhagat Singh, Why I am an Atheist and Other Works
28. 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
29. 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
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"...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
30. Why I am a Hindu
By: Shashi Tharoor
3.72
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one … read more
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"Who knows whence this creation had its origin? He, whether He fashioned it or whether He did not, He, who surveys it all from the highest heaven, He knows—or maybe even He does not know. — Rig Veda, …"-Shashi Tharoor, Why I am a Hindu
31. The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
By: Ravish Kumar
4.18
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
‘The National Project for Instilling Fear in the people has reached completion. Before the promised… read more
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"These exhortations to keep safe have made people cowards."-Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
"You cannot put yours and yourself in danger just to overcome your fear."-Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
"While a ribbon awaits Usain Bolt at the finishing line, for people like us, there is a concrete wall. When you reach the finishing line, you run straight into that wall. Everything, your job, your cr…"-Ravish Kumar, The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
