12 must-read india books like Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India by Nikhil Menon

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Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India

By: Nikhil Menon

3.93

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly…

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1. English, August: An Indian Story

By: Upamanyu Chatterjee , None

3.78

Format: 326 pages, Paperback

Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His frien… read more

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"We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity."

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Far away in a field was a farmer behind two oxen, ploughing, three slow spots in a landscape of brown and green. Agastya looked at him and thought, too many worlds, concentric, and he a restless cent…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Land is important everywhere, all kinds of land. But you have lived in cities. There you cannot sense the importance of agricultural land, its the real wealth. Each of these squares and hexagrams cou…"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

"Yet one more encounter with new faces, he thought, as he watched a tree and a cloud move past in slow motion, and eventually this one would also blur into the others; all that would remain distinct, …"

-Upamanyu Chatterjee, English, August: An Indian Story

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2. The Emergency: A Personal History

By: Coomi Kapoor

4.04

Format: 192 pages,

In June 1975, Coomi Kapoor was a young reporter at the Indian Express in Delhi, when Indira Gandhi … read more

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3. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001

By: Steve Coll

5.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

The news-breaking book that has sent shockwaves through the Bush White House, Ghost Warsis the most… read more

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

By: Vinay Sitapati

4.57

Format: 201 pages,

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5. Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India

By: None

3.50

Format: None pages, Hardcover

In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spi… read more

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6. Patriots and Partisans

By: Ramachandra Guha

3.50

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this wonderfully readable collection of essays, Ramachandra Guha defends the liberal centre agai… read more

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7. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.00

Format: 136 pages,

In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more

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8. When McKinsey Comes to Town

By: Walt Bogdanich

3.80

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

**A NEW YORK TIMES AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022**An explosive exposé of the world's most pre… read more

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"One former McKinsey consultant wrote anonymously, ¨To those convinced that a secretive cabal controls the world, the usual suspect are Illuminati, Lizard People, or ´globalists.' They are wrong, natu…"

-Walt Bogdanich, When McKinsey Comes to Town

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9. 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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10. Planning Democracy: How A Professor, An Institute, And An Idea Shaped India

By: Nikhil Menon

3.93

Format: 360 pages, Hardcover

India's Five-Year Plans were one of the developing world's most ambitious experiments. After nearly… read more

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11. 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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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. Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment of the Constitution of India

By: Tripurdaman Singh

4.12

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Sixteen Stormy Days narrates the riveting story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India… read more

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15. No Presents Please: Mumbai Stories

By: Jayant Kaikini

3.81

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

For readers of Jhumpa Lahiri and Rohinton Mistry, as well as Lorrie Moore and George Saunders, here… read more

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16. 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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17. Nehru: The Debates That Defined India

By: Tripurdaman Singh

3.87

Format: 275 pages, Hardcover

From being elected as Congress president in 1929 till his death in 1964, Jawaharlal Nehru remained … read more

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18. 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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19. Independence Day: A People's History

By: Veena Venugopal

4.17

Format: 188 pages, Kindle Edition

"Seventy-five years ago, India attained its independence. What was it like to be an ordinary citize… read more

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20. The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

By: Yasheng Huang

4.22

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

The long history of China’s relationship between stability, diversity, and prosperity, and how its … read more

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21. Mithun Number Two and Other Mumbai Stories

By: Jayant Kaikini

4.05

Format: 236 pages, Kindle Edition

About the BookA BRILLIANT COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE AWARD-WINNER AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR TEAM THAT… read more

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