India Nonfiction
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Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India
by:
Arvind Rajagopal
3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings 2. 
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
by:
Sujatha Gidla
3.80 avg rating — 2,558 ratings 3. 
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire 4.20 avg rating — 17,368 ratings
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Captured in Miniature: Mughal Lives through Mughal Art
by:
Suhag Shirodkar
3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings 
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Gandhi Today: A Report on India's Gandhi Movement and Its Experiments in Nonviolence and Small Scale Alternatives
by:
Mark Shepard
3.86 avg rating — 85 ratings 
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Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by:
Shashi Tharoor
4.17 avg rating — 12,328 ratings 17. 
Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
by:
Tripti Lahiri
3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings 
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India and the Occult: The Influence of South Asian Spirituality on Modern Western Occultism 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100-1900
by:
B.N. Goswamy
4.56 avg rating — 54 ratings 22. 
On the Ganges: Encounters with Saints and Sinners Along India's Mythic River
by:
George Black
3.77 avg rating — 66 ratings 
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The Subaltern Speaks and Asserts: The Autobiographies of Narendra Jadhav, Omprakash Valmiki and Sharankumar Limbale
by:
R.P. Singh
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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Our Time Has Come: How India is Making Its Place in the World
by:
Alyssa Ayres
3.87 avg rating — 103 ratings 
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Love in a Different Climate : Men Who Have Sex with Men in India
by:
Jeremy Seabrook
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 10 ratings 32. 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by:
Katherine Boo
3.98 avg rating — 114,827 ratings 
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Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I 4.15 avg rating — 120 ratings
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Religious Rebels in the Punjab: The Ad Dharm Challenge to Caste it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Madeleine's Children: Family, Freedom, Secrets, and Lies in France's Indian Ocean Colonies
by:
Sue Peabody
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings 45. 
In The Tigers Shadow: The Autobiography of an Ambedkarite
by:
Namdeo Nimgade
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings 
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Ayyankali: A Dalit Leader Of Organic Protest
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M. Nisar
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings 47. 
The Indian Slow Cooker: 50 Healthy, Easy, Authentic Recipes
by:
Anupy Singla
3.98 avg rating — 713 ratings 
49. ![Vibrant India: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Brooklyn [A Cookbook]](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1474752969i/30724247._SX100_.jpg)
Vibrant India: Fresh Vegetarian Recipes from Bangalore to Brooklyn [A Cookbook]
by:
Chitra Agrawal
3.93 avg rating — 193 ratings 51. 
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Dishonoured by history: "criminal tribes" and British colonial policy 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India
by:
Jon Wilson
3.76 avg rating — 261 ratings 
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The Rani of Jhansi: Gender, History, and Fable in India
by:
Harleen Singh
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings 57. 
JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
by:
Bruce Riedel
4.16 avg rating — 426 ratings 60. 
Rewriting history: The life and times of Pandita Ramabai
by:
Uma Chakravarti
3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings 60. 
The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young
by:
Somini Sengupta
3.97 avg rating — 424 ratings 
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Following Fish: One Man's Journey into the Food and Culture of the Indian Coast 3.95 avg rating — 1,109 ratings
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Puja and Piety: Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Art from the Indian Subcontinent
by:
Pratapaditya Pal
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Dalit Women's Autobiographies: A Critical Appraisal
by:
Bijender Singh
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 70. 
Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts: The Kronos Collections 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
by:
Raghu Karnad
3.89 avg rating — 556 ratings 76. 
In the Land of Poverty: Memories of an Indian Family, 1947-97
by:
Siddharth Dube
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings 
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Sandalwood and Carrion: Smell in Indian Religion and Culture
by:
James M. McHugh
4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings 80. 
The Making of the Dalit Public in North India: Uttar Pradesh, 1950-Present really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Healthy Indian Vegetarian Cooking: Easy Recipes for the Hurry Home Cook
by:
Shubhra Ramineni
3.84 avg rating — 32 ratings 82. 
We Also Made History: Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
by:
Urmila Pawar
4.40 avg rating — 35 ratings 
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India's Immortal Comic Books: Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
by:
Karline McLain
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
by:
Alain Daniélou
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 135 ratings 88. 
#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
by:
Rohith Vemula
3.90 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics
by:
Milan Vaishnav
3.90 avg rating — 301 ratings 
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Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India
by:
Joseph Lelyveld
3.81 avg rating — 983 ratings 96. 
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Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting
by:
B.N. Goswamy
4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings 98. 
Dalit Visions: The Anti-Caste Movement and the Construction of an Indian Identity, Rev. Edition, Pa
by:
Gail Omvedt
3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings 
