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…
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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. Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
By: Rahul Pandita
3.43
Format: 375 pages,
Rahul Pandita was fourteen years old in 1990 when he was forced to leave his home in Srinagar along… read more
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3. Gaban
By: Munshi Premchand , मुंशी प्रेमचंद
3.70
Format: None pages, Paperback
Gaban, one of the most celebrate d novels of Munshi Premchand, was first published in 1931. It tell… read more
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4. Ghachar Ghochar
By: Vivek Shanbhag , Srinath Perur
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
For readers of Akhil Sharma, Mohsin Hamid, and Teju Cole, a haunting, masterly novel about a family… read more
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5. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.75
Format: 140 pages, Hardcover
A re-creation of one of the key moments of twentieth-century history: the partition and independenc… read more
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6. 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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7. 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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8. India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes
By: None , Shiv Aroor
3.62
Format: 280 pages, Paperback
The Army major who led the legendary September 2016 surgical strikes on terror launch pads across t… read more
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9. 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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10. Spy Stories: Inside the Secret World of ISI and RAW
By: Adrian Levy
3.55
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
From 9/11 to 26/11, Burhan Wani to Kulbhushan Jadhav – the India–Pakistan relationship told from th… read more
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11. Doglapan: The Hard Truth about Life and Start-Ups
By: Ashneer Grover
3.80
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
This is the unfettered story of Ashneer Grover-the favourite and misunderstood poster boy of Start-… read more
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12. 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
13. 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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14. 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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15. War Minus the Shooting
By: Mike Marqusee
4.50
Format: 175 pages, Paperback
Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-… read more
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16. Kitne Ghazi Aaye, Kitne Ghazi Gaye: My Life Story
By: K.J.S. 'Tiny' Dhillon
4.38
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
He has extensively served in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K) and the North-East of India. He has the distinct… read more
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17. 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
18. Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi
By: Vinay Sitapati
4.38
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
Narendra Modi has been a hundred years in the making. Vinay Sitapati's Jugalbandi provides this bac… read more
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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
22. How to Win an Indian Election
By: Shivam Shankar Singh
4.06
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
What role do political consultants play in election campaigns? How are political parties using tech… read more
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23. 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
24. Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
By: M. Rajshekhar
4.33
Format: 296 pages, Kindle Edition
The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwa… read more
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25. VAJPAYEE: The Ascent of the Hindu Right, 1924–1977
By: Abhishek Choudhary
4.40
Format: 530 pages, Kindle Edition
‘The finest biography of an Indian prime minister that I have read’ RAMACHANDRA GUHA‘A real achieve… read more
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26. How Prime Ministers Decide
By: Neerja Chowdhury
4.53
Format: 585 pages, Kindle Edition
India’s prime ministers have taken decisions that changed the course of the country’s history. This… read more
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27. Midnight's Borders: A People's History of Modern India
By: Suchitra Vijayan
3.92
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven year, 9,000 mile journey acro… read more
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28. India's Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution
By: Sanjaya Baru
3.58
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point … read more
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29. The Origin Story of India's States
By: Venkataraghavan Subha Srinivasan
3.49
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
The story of the birth of India's states is the story of the birth and continuing rebirth of India,… read more
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30. Undercover: My Journey into the Darkness of Hindutva
By: Ashish Khetan
4.43
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
‘I had to submit my work to the ultimate test to which a piece of journalism can be subjected—a for… read more
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31. The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage
By: Vikram Sood
3.88
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
In God we trust, the rest we monitor . . .A former chief of India's external intelligence agency, t… read more
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