Best Non-Fiction Writing by Indian Authors
1. 
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by:
Ramachandra Guha
4.39 avg rating — 18,029 ratings 2. 
Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
by:
S. Hussain Zaidi
3.95 avg rating — 10,508 ratings 
9. 
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
by:
Gurcharan Das
4.09 avg rating — 6,290 ratings 10. 
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
by:
Rahul Pandita
4.26 avg rating — 7,513 ratings 11. 
Our Heritage Revisited : A glimpse into Ancient Indian texts
by:
Anju Saha
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings 12. 
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The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
by:
Gurcharan Das
4.12 avg rating — 4,696 ratings 
17. 
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
by:
Amartya Sen
3.83 avg rating — 8,730 ratings 
19. 
An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
by:
Mahatma Gandhi
4.10 avg rating — 73,821 ratings 20. 
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy 4.11 avg rating — 5,081 ratings
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Equations of a Being: A being who gathered moss
by:
Ashutosh Gupta
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 44 ratings 24. 
Career's Quest: Proven Strategies for Mastering Success in Your Profession: Networking and Building Professional Relationships
by:
Shubham Shukla
4.52 avg rating — 109 ratings 26. 
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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
by:
Sanjeev Sanyal
4.27 avg rating — 1,906 ratings 
31. 
We Are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India (South Asia Series)
by:
Ela R. Bhatt
4.06 avg rating — 51 ratings 
33. 
Breaking India: Western Interventions In Dravidian And Dalit Faultlines
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.40 avg rating — 996 ratings 
34. 
Bookless in Baghdad and Other Writings About Reading
by:
Shashi Tharoor
3.56 avg rating — 812 ratings 
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
by:
Vijay Prashad
4.12 avg rating — 1,433 ratings 39. 
Righteous Republic: The Political Foundations of Modern India
by:
Ananya Vajpeyi
3.69 avg rating — 61 ratings 
43. 
The Rigvedic People: 'Invaders'?/'Immigrants'? or Indigenous?
by:
B.B. Lal
4.50 avg rating — 52 ratings 44. 
A Long Dream of Home: The Persecution, Exodus and Exile of Kashmiri Pandits
by:
Siddhartha Gigoo
4.24 avg rating — 79 ratings 
50. 
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
by:
Raj Patel
3.93 avg rating — 2,562 ratings 51. 
The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims
by:
A.L. Basham
4.11 avg rating — 1,830 ratings 
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History of Iron Technology in India: From Beginning to Pre-modern Times
by:
Vibha Tripathi
4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings 
57. 
Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right
by:
Swapan Dasgupta
4.06 avg rating — 145 ratings 58. 
India's New Capitalists: Caste, Business, and Industry in a Modern Nation
by:
Harish Damodaran
4.01 avg rating — 71 ratings 
60. 
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport
by:
Ramachandra Guha
4.29 avg rating — 929 ratings 61. 
Hindu Temples What Happened to Them Volume II The Islamic Evidence
by:
Sita Ram Goel
4.73 avg rating — 94 ratings 62. 
Hindu Temples What Happened to Them- Vol. 1 Preliminary Survey
by:
Sita Ram Goel
4.56 avg rating — 172 ratings 63. 
Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood
by:
Kaiwan Mehta
3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings 63. 
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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 66. 
The English Medium Myth: Dismantling barriers to India's growth
by:
Sankrant Sanu
4.49 avg rating — 57 ratings 
67. 
10 Lessons from Hindu History in 10 Episodes: Tales of Grit, Heroism and Valour 4.33 avg rating — 169 ratings
70. 
Invaders and Infidels : From Sindh to Delhi: The 500-Year Journey of Islamic Invasions (Book 1) 4.39 avg rating — 272 ratings
71. 
Infinite Vision: How Aravind Became the World's Greatest Business Case for Compassion 4.26 avg rating — 407 ratings
74. 
Seventy Years of Secularism: Unpopular Essays on the Unofficial Political Religion of India 4.34 avg rating — 146 ratings
75. 
The Educational Heritage of Ancient India: How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste
by:
Sahana Singh
4.40 avg rating — 357 ratings 
77. 
A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar - A Contribution to the History of India
by:
Robert Sewell
3.78 avg rating — 212 ratings 
79. 
Being Different: An Indian Challenge to Western Universalism
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.43 avg rating — 757 ratings 80. 
The Battle for Sanskrit: Is Sanskrit Political or Sacred, Oppressive or Liberating, Dead or Alive?
by:
Rajiv Malhotra
4.34 avg rating — 277 ratings 81. 
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 
85. 
Brainwashed Republic: India's Controlled Systemic Deracination
by:
Neeraj Atri
4.64 avg rating — 96 ratings 
88. 
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 
93. 
Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History
by:
Meenakshi Jain
4.77 avg rating — 115 ratings 
95. 
Negationism in India ; Concealing the Record of Islam
by:
Koenraad Elst
4.45 avg rating — 76 ratings 96. 
The Indian Conservative : A History of Indian Right-Wing Thought
by:
Jaithirth Rao
3.49 avg rating — 148 ratings 97. 
Himalayan Blunder: The Angry Truth About India's Most Crushing Military Disaster
by:
J.P. Dalvi
4.30 avg rating — 1,232 ratings 
