On India
1. 
A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
by:
Josy Joseph
4.28 avg rating β 2,675 ratings 
4. 
Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement
by:
Rahul Pandita
3.79 avg rating β 2,326 ratings 
8. 
Between Memory and Forgetting: Massacre and the Modi Years in Gujarat
by:
Harsh Mander
4.29 avg rating β 24 ratings 9. 
#Caste is Not a Rumour: The Online Diary of Rohith Vemula
by:
Rohith Vemula
3.90 avg rating β 62 ratings 
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The Hanging of Afzal Guru and the Strange Case of the Attack on the Indian Parliament
by:
Arundhati Roy
3.93 avg rating β 256 ratings 
18. 
Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution
by:
Gautam Bhatia
4.48 avg rating β 75 ratings 
22. 
My Sonβs Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India
by:
Aparna Vaidik
4.11 avg rating β 72 ratings 23. 
Truck de India!: A Hitchhiker's guide to Hindustan
by:
Rajat Ubhaykar
4.25 avg rating β 709 ratings 24. 
The Untouchables Who Were They and Why They Became Untouchables
by:
B.R. Ambedkar
4.49 avg rating β 534 ratings 
26. 
The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance
by:
Neelesh Misra
3.97 avg rating β 122 ratings 
29. 
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
by:
Edward Luce
3.86 avg rating β 3,615 ratings 
29. 
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
by:
Gyan Prakash
3.88 avg rating β 180 ratings 29. 
What Is Your Good Name? (The Conscious Living Series)
by:
Michael Martin
it was ok 2.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
35. 
The Broken Ladder: The Paradox and the Potential of India's One Billion
by:
Anirudh Krishna
4.15 avg rating β 59 ratings 
39. 
The Emergency: A Personal History
by:
Coomi Kapoor
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1,068 ratings 
43. 
The Persistence of Caste: The Khairlanji Murders and India's Hidden Apartheid
by:
Anand Teltumbde
4.50 avg rating β 139 ratings 45. 
Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History (Cities of the Imagination Book 12)
by:
Krishna Dutta
3.91 avg rating β 70 ratings 
45. 
Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India
by:
Harsh Mander
4.42 avg rating β 237 ratings 
48. 
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
by:
Gurcharan Das
4.09 avg rating β 6,290 ratings 50. 
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
by:
Rahul Pandita
4.26 avg rating β 7,513 ratings 
52. 
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
by:
Shashi Tharoor
3.59 avg rating β 1,218 ratings 
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58. 
Narmada Dammed: An Inquiry into the Politics of Development
by:
Dilip D'Souza
3.40 avg rating β 10 ratings 59. 
Branded By Law: Looking at India's Denotified Tribes
by:
Dilip D'Souza
3.33 avg rating β 9 ratings 59. 
The Great Hedge of India: The Search for the Living Barrier that Divided a People
by:
Roy Moxham
3.99 avg rating β 464 ratings 
62. 
Travails with the Alien: The Film that was Never Made and Other Adventures with Science Fiction
by:
Satyajit Ray
4.47 avg rating β 68 ratings 62. 
Religion as Social Vision: The Movement against Untouchability in 20th-Century Punjab 4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
64. 
Our Constitution: An introduction to India's Constitution and Constitutional law 3.95 avg rating β 325 ratings
66. 
India's Nuclear Bomb: The Impact on Global Proliferation
by:
George Perkovich
3.71 avg rating β 14 ratings 66. 
The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts
by:
Gautam Bhatia
4.55 avg rating β 206 ratings 68. 
Disappearing Daughters: The Tragedy of Female Foeticide
by:
Gita Aravamudan
4.31 avg rating β 55 ratings 
71. 
India Dissents: 3,000 Years of Difference, Doubt and Argument
by:
Ashok Vajpeyi
3.86 avg rating β 35 ratings 
74. ![RSS: A View to the Inside [Hardcover] Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1532697600i/40959589._SX100_.jpg)
RSS: A View to the Inside [Hardcover] Walter K. Andersen and Shridhar D. Damle 3.86 avg rating β 218 ratings
75. 
The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women's Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
by:
Radha Kumar
4.06 avg rating β 65 ratings 
77. 
Hicky's Bengal Gazette: The Untold Story of India's First Newspaper
by:
Andrew Otis
4.13 avg rating β 111 ratings 78. 
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste
by:
Diane Coffey
4.33 avg rating β 349 ratings 
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The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India
by:
Kalpana Sharma
4.16 avg rating β 19 ratings 85. 
The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park
by:
Raghu Chundawat
4.29 avg rating β 21 ratings 86. 
Writing Wrongs: The Cultural Construction of Human Rights in India
by:
Pramod K. Nayar
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 86. 
Sebastian and Sons: A Brief History of the Mridangam Makers
by:
T.M. Krishna
4.11 avg rating β 197 ratings 
88. 
Is This βAzaadiβ?: Everyday Lives of Dalit Agricultural Labourers in a Bihar Village really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 3 ratings
91. 
The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
by:
Alpa Shah
4.52 avg rating β 96 ratings 
94. 
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
by:
Shashi Tharoor
4.17 avg rating β 12,329 ratings 
97. 
Watershed 1967: India's Forgotten Victory Over China
by:
Probal Dasgupta
4.46 avg rating β 473 ratings 
100. 
From Fishing Hamlet to Red Planet: India's Space Journey really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 20 ratings