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Best non-fiction books by South Asian women
1.
Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
by:
Aanchal Malhotra
4.44 avg rating — 1,804 ratings
2.
The God of Small Things
by:
Arundhati Roy
3.96 avg rating — 317,152 ratings
3.
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
by:
Malala Yousafzai
4.16 avg rating — 612,699 ratings
4.
Anu: The Raj Years
by:
Shabnam Vasisht
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
5.
Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy, and the West
by:
Benazir Bhutto
3.80 avg rating — 1,970 ratings
5.
Anu: The Nomad Years
by:
Shabnam Vasisht
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
7.
Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
by:
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings
8.
Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
by:
Ednan Aslan
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
9.
Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles
by:
Ghazala Jamil
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
10.
Behind Closed Doors: Domestic Violence in India
by:
Rinki Bhattacharya
3.53 avg rating — 17 ratings
11.
Loved and Unloved: The Girl Child in the Family
by:
Jaba Guha Jasodhara Bagchi
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
12.
Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
by:
Amina Yaqin
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
13.
We Sinful Women : Contemporary Feminist Urdu Poetry
by:
Rukhsana Ahmad
4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings
14.
Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
by:
Fatima Bhutto
3.85 avg rating — 1,824 ratings
15.
Lifting the Veil
by:
Ismat Chughtai
4.05 avg rating — 790 ratings
16.
Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
by:
Rana Ayyub
3.83 avg rating — 3,696 ratings
17.
Women and Domestic Violence Law in India: A Quest for Justice
by:
Shalu Nigam
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
18.
Women and Law in India
by:
Flavia Agnes
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
19.
Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction
by:
Arundhati Roy
4.10 avg rating — 3,629 ratings
20.
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
by:
Arundhati Roy
3.55 avg rating — 38,035 ratings
21.
An Educated Woman In Prostitution: A Memoir of Lust, Exploitation, Deceit (Calcutta, 1929)
by:
Manabi Devi
3.61 avg rating — 301 ratings
22.
Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir
by:
Mridu Rai
4.11 avg rating — 83 ratings
23.
بیحجاب: چگونه لیبرالهای غرب بر آتش اسلامگرایی رادیکال میدمند
by:
Yasmine Mohammed
4.34 avg rating — 2,420 ratings
24.
Unbound: 2,000 Years of Indian Women’s Writing
by:
Annie Zaidi
3.81 avg rating — 86 ratings
25.
Legacy: Letters from Eminent Parents to Their Daughters
by:
Sudha Menon
3.87 avg rating — 211 ratings
26.
Lady, You're Not a Man! : The Adventures of a Woman at Work
by:
Apurva Purohit
3.84 avg rating — 734 ratings
27.
It's Not About the Burqa
by:
Mariam Khan
4.20 avg rating — 7,692 ratings
28.
No Regrets: The Guilt-Free Woman's Guide to a Good Life
by:
Kaveree Bamzai
3.84 avg rating — 89 ratings
29.
Warrior in a Pink Sari
by:
Sampat Pal
3.70 avg rating — 144 ratings
30.
Rumours of Spring: A Girlhood in Kashmir
by:
Farah Bashir
4.11 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
31.
Dead Camel and Other Stories Of Love
by:
Parvati Sharma
3.61 avg rating — 38 ratings
32.
Waiting: A Collection of Stories
by:
Nighat Gandhi
3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
33.
Do you Remember Kunan Poshpora?: The Story of a Mass Rape (Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia)
by:
Samreena Mushtaq
4.35 avg rating — 302 ratings
34.
Fault Lines of History: The India Papers II (Zubaan Series on Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia)
by:
Uma Chakravarti
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
35.
Kaifi & I: A Memoir
by:
Shaukat Kaifi
4.25 avg rating — 79 ratings
36.
Speaking Peace: Women's Voices from Kashmir
by:
Urvashi Butalia
4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
37.
Love, Loss, and Longing in Kashmir
by:
Sahba Husain
4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings
38.
Kath : Stories from Kashmir
by:
Neerja Mattoo
3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
39.
Where Has My Gulla Gone: A Delightful and Poignant Story about Childhood, Imagination, and Growing Up
by:
Padma Sachdev
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
40.
The Mystic and the Lyric: Four Women Poets from Kashmir
by:
Neerja Mattoo
4.15 avg rating — 20 ratings
41.
Difficult Daughters
by:
Manju Kapur
3.56 avg rating — 2,496 ratings
42.
I, Lalla: The Poems of Lal Dĕd
by:
Lalla
4.28 avg rating — 200 ratings
43.
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
by:
Ather Zia
4.66 avg rating — 38 ratings
44.
My Feudal Lord
by:
Tehmina Durrani
3.69 avg rating — 5,147 ratings
45.
Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
by:
Ira Mukhoty
4.26 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
46.
Heroines: Powerful Indian Women of Myth and History
by:
Ira Mukhoty
3.82 avg rating — 336 ratings
47.
Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy?
by:
Afiya Shehrbano Zia
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 24 ratings
48.
Seeing Like a Feminist
by:
Nivedita Menon
4.26 avg rating — 1,550 ratings