Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
By: Anirudh Kanisetti
4.23
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
The history of the vast Indian subcontinent is usually told as a series of ephemeral moments when a…
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1. Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
By: William Dalrymple
4.34
Format: 608 pages, Hardcover
In the spring of 1839 British forces invaded Afghanistan for the first time, re-establishing Shah S… read more
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"No one was planning to travel light. One brigadier claimed that he needed fifty camels to carry his kit, while General Cotton took 260 for his. Three hundred camels were earmarked to carry the milita…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
"The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no few…"-William Dalrymple, Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
2. The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
By: Manu S. Pillai
4.28
Format: 1137 pages, Kindle Edition
In 1498, when Vasco da Gama set foot in Kerala looking for Christians and spices, he unleashed a wa… read more
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3. Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
By: William Dalrymple , Anita Anand
4.04
Format: 335 pages,
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i Noor, arguably the most celebrated a… read more
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4. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
4.28
Format: 346 pages, Hardcover
Much of human history has played itself out along the rim of the Indian Ocean. In a first-of-its-ki… read more
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5. Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology
By: Devdutt Pattanaik
3.92
Format: 290 pages,
A decoding of Hindu mythology, Hindus have one God. They also have 330 million gods: male gods, fem… read more
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6. Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
By: Sanjeev Sanyal
5.00
Format: 299 pages, Hardcover
Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give hi… read more
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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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
10. Lords of the Deccan : Southern India from the Chalukyas to the Cholas
By: Anirudh Kanisetti
4.23
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
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11. Whole Numbers and Half Truths
By: Rukmini S.
4.22
Format: 324 pages, Hardcover
How do you see India? Fuelled by a surge of migration to cities, the country's growth appears to… read more
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12. 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
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"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
13. Sakina’s Kiss
By: Vivek Shanbhag
3.81
Format: 194 pages, Hardcover
Venkat answers urgent knocks on the door to his flat one evening to find two insolent young men cla… read more
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14. Smoke and Ashes: A Writer's Journey through Opium's Hidden Histories
By: Amitav Ghosh
4.14
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
When Amitav Ghosh began his research for the Ibis Trilogy some twenty years ago, he was startled to… read more
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15. 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
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16. 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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17. False Allies: India's Maharajahs in The Age of Ravi Varma
By: Manu S. Pillai
3.79
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
India?s maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by lust and luxury. Beje… read more
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18. 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
19. Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji
By: Manu S. Pillai
3.93
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Manu S. Pillai narrates the story of the Deccan from the close of the thirteenth century to the daw… read more
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20. Masala Lab : The Science of Indian Cooking
By: Krish Ashok
3.77
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
Ever wondered why your grandmother threw a teabag into the pressure cooker while boiling chickpeas,… read more
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21. Coromandel: A Personal History of South India
By: Charles Allen
3.85
Format: 465 pages, Kindle Edition
COROMANDEL. A name which has been long applied by Europeans to the Northern Tamil Country, or (more… read more
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