Understanding India and South Asia
1. 
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
by:
Gary J. Bass
4.36 avg rating — 2,512 ratings 2. 
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by:
Ramachandra Guha
4.39 avg rating — 18,030 ratings 3. 
Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right
by:
Swapan Dasgupta
4.06 avg rating — 145 ratings 
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The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.34 avg rating — 277 ratings 6. 
Unbreaking India: Decision on Article 370 and the CAA
by:
Sanjay Dixit
4.52 avg rating — 261 ratings 7. 
Rearming Hinduism: Nature, Hinduphobia, and the Return of Indian Intelligence
by:
Vamsee Juluri
3.83 avg rating — 318 ratings 8. 
Academic Hinduphobia: A critique of Wendy Doniger's erotic school of Indology
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.49 avg rating — 93 ratings 9. 
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.43 avg rating — 757 ratings 10. 
India’s Most Fearless: True Stories of Modern Military Heroes
by:
Shiv Aroor
4.46 avg rating — 2,173 ratings 11. 
The Rigvedic People. 'Invaders'?'Immigrants'? or Indigenous
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B.B. Lal
4.50 avg rating — 52 ratings 
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Seventy Years of Secularism: Unpopular Essays on the Unofficial Political Religion of India 4.34 avg rating — 146 ratings
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Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
by:
Arun Shourie
4.27 avg rating — 592 ratings 
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Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre
by:
Deep Halder
4.28 avg rating — 303 ratings 18. 
The English Medium Myth: Dismantling barriers to India's growth
by:
Sankrant Sanu
4.49 avg rating — 57 ratings 19. 
Negationism in India ; Concealing the Record of Islam
by:
Koenraad Elst
4.45 avg rating — 76 ratings 
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Delhi Anti-Hindu Riots 2020, The Macabre Dance of Violence Since December 2019: An OpIndia Report
by:
Nupur J. Sharma
4.25 avg rating — 211 ratings 
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India: The Siege Within: Challenges to a Nation's Unity
by:
M.J. Akbar
4.10 avg rating — 174 ratings 25. 
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The Myth of Hindu Terror: Insider account of Ministry of Home Affairs 2006-2010
by:
R.V.S. Mani
4.11 avg rating — 361 ratings 28. 
Breaking India: Western Interventions In Dravidian And Dalit Faultlines
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.40 avg rating — 996 ratings 
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The Bose Brothers and Indian Independence: An Insider’s Account
by:
Madhuri Bose
4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings 
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The Indian Conservative : A History of Indian Right-Wing Thought
by:
Jaithirth Rao
3.49 avg rating — 148 ratings 
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Still No Trace of an Aryan Invasion: A Collection on Indo-European Origins
by:
Koenraad Elst
4.75 avg rating — 24 ratings 35. 
Indra's Net: Defending Hinduism's Philosophical Unity
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.43 avg rating — 247 ratings 
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Hindu Temples What Happened to Them- Vol. 1 Preliminary Survey
by:
Sita Ram Goel
4.56 avg rating — 172 ratings 39. 
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste
by:
Sahana Singh
4.40 avg rating — 357 ratings 
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Science Sustainability and Indian National Resurgence
by:
Jagat Pati Joshi
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 41. 
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
by:
Sanjeev Sanyal
4.03 avg rating — 4,322 ratings 43. 
Hindu Temples What Happened to Them Volume II The Islamic Evidence
by:
Sita Ram Goel
4.73 avg rating — 94 ratings 43. 
The Sangh & Swaraj: Ratan Sharda's Perspective on Nationalism and Freedom
by:
Ratan Sharda
4.10 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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JFK's Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War
by:
Bruce Riedel
4.16 avg rating — 426 ratings 
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Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders, 636 Ad To 1206 Ad
by:
Sita Ram Goel
4.55 avg rating — 201 ratings 51. 
A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar - A Contribution to the History of India
by:
Robert Sewell
3.78 avg rating — 212 ratings 
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Suvarnadvipa: Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (2 Vols.)
by:
R.C. Majumdar
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings 
57. 
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
by:
Steve Coll
4.21 avg rating — 4,312 ratings 58. 
Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane 4.26 avg rating — 1,185 ratings
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Brainwashed Republic: India's Controlled Systemic Deracination
by:
Neeraj Atri
4.64 avg rating — 96 ratings 60. 
History of Iron Technology in India: From Beginning to Pre-modern Times
by:
Vibha Tripathi
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History
by:
Meenakshi Jain
4.77 avg rating — 115 ratings 
69. 
Fierce Enigmas: A History of the United States in South Asia
by:
Srinath Raghavan
4.18 avg rating — 89 ratings 
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Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924
by:
Vikram Sampath
4.57 avg rating — 1,275 ratings 74. 
The Rigvedic People: 'Invaders'?/'Immigrants'? or Indigenous?
by:
B.B. Lal
4.50 avg rating — 52 ratings 75. 
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by:
Amartya Sen
3.83 avg rating — 8,730 ratings 76. 
ONE MOUNTAIN TWO TIGERS : INDIA, CHINA, AND THE HIGH HIMALAYAS
by:
Shakti Sinha
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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The Goa Inquisition: Being a Quarter Centenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition of India 4.53 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Life & Times of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee: A Glimpse into a Visionary's Journey by Tathagata Roy
by:
Tathagata Roy
4.51 avg rating — 68 ratings 
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Borders and Boundaries: How Women Experienced the Partition of India
by:
Ritu Menon
4.20 avg rating — 142 ratings 86. 
Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World
by:
Ramachandra Guha
4.49 avg rating — 776 ratings 87. 
A History Of India As It Happened Not As It Has Been Written
by:
François Gautier
4.12 avg rating — 90 ratings 87. 
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
by:
Sanjeev Sanyal
4.27 avg rating — 1,906 ratings 89. 
Women at War: Subhas Chandra Bose and the Rani of Jhansi Regiment
by:
Vera Hildebrand
3.85 avg rating — 47 ratings 
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The Ramayana: A New Retelling of Valmiki's Ancient Epic
by:
Linda Egenes
4.25 avg rating — 355 ratings 
