7 best-selling economics books like Whole Numbers and Half Truths by Rukmini S.

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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…

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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

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2. Em and The Big Hoom

By: Jerry Pinto

4.19

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

In a one-bedroom-hall-kitchen in Mahim, Bombay, through the last decades of the twentieth century, … read more

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"What is it about the sea? Is it because it’s there?"

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"Was there a drain?' 'No. There was no drain. There isn't one even now'."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

"otherwise, she was Em, and most of the time she was Em with an exclamation mark."

-Jerry Pinto, Em and The Big Hoom

3. Half - Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India

By: Vinay Sitapati

4.57

Format: 201 pages,

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4. 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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5. A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India

By: Josy Joseph

4.15

Format: None pages,

'Every day, millions of people -- the rich, the poor and the many foreign visitors -- are hunting f… read more

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6. Incarnations: India in 50 Lives

By: Sunil Khilnani

3.00

Format: 9 pages, Hardcover

For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously un… read more

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7. 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… read more

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8. 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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9. 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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10. 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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11. 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

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12. 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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13. Last Among Equals: Power, Caste & Politics in Bihar’s Villages

By: M.R. Sharan

4.28

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

Sanjay Sahni was living an ‘araam zindagi’ in Delhi, working as an electrician, until a chance enco… read more

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14. 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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15. South vs North: India’s Great Divide

By: Nilakantan RS

3.76

Format: 280 pages, Hardcover

Compare two children – one born in north India, the other in the south. The child from south India … read more

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16. 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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17. 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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18. Price of the Modi Years

By: Aakar Patel

4.50

Format: 496 pages, Paperback

Columnist, author and political commentator, Aakar Patel has long been a close observer of the poli… read more

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"The creed of Hindutva that shapes Modi’s worldview says nothing original or new regarding modern government, if it says anything about this at all. It expresses a burning desire to make Bharat Mata g…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

"Ganges, the Carrier of Corpses Don’t worry, be happy, in one voice speak the corpses O King, in your Ram-Rajya, we see bodies flow in the Ganges O King, the woods are ashes, No spots remain at cremat…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

"The Union government from 2014 began systematic harassment and persecution of civil society. This harmed civil society but it also hurt India. NGOs provide the third largest workforce in the United S…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

"Index: The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index9 Monitors: Civil liberties, pluralism, political culture and participation, electoral process Method: Global ranking India 2014 ranking: 27 In…"

-Aakar Patel, Price of the Modi Years

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19. Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India's First Women in Medicine

By: Kavitha Rao

4.49

Format: 270 pages, Kindle Edition

At a time when medicine is a highly sought-after career for Indian women, it is hard to imagine wha… read more

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20. India Moving: A History of Migration

By: Chinmay Tumbe

3.94

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From adventure to indenture, martyrs to merchants, Partition to plantation, from Kashmir to Kerala,… read more

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21. Love Jihad and Other Fictions: Simple Facts to Counter Viral Falsehoods

By: Sreenivasan Jain

3.80

Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition

Love jihad, Muslim appeasement, forced conversions—these conspiracy theories are now driving everyd… read more

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