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1.
India After Modi: Populism and the Right
by:
Ajay Gudavarthy
3.18 avg rating β 11 ratings
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The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
by:
David Graeber
4.19 avg rating β 24,322 ratings
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Isaac Newton
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James Gleick
3.79 avg rating β 9,429 ratings
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The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World
by:
William Dalrymple
4.17 avg rating β 1,836 ratings
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Discordant Notes, Volume 2: The Voice of Dissent in the Court of Last Resort
by:
Rohinton F. Nariman
4.25 avg rating β 4 ratings
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Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
by:
Sathnam Sanghera
4.09 avg rating β 8,329 ratings
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Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
by:
Sathnam Sanghera
3.98 avg rating β 936 ratings
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Breaking the Mould: Reimagining India's Economic Future
by:
Raghuram G. Rajan
4.04 avg rating β 469 ratings
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
by:
Yuval Noah Harari
4.17 avg rating β 34,285 ratings
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India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance
by:
Arvind Narrain
4.19 avg rating β 54 ratings
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A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar
by:
K.A. Nilakanta Sastri
3.92 avg rating β 202 ratings
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The Hundred Yearsβ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917β2017
by:
Rashid Khalidi
4.49 avg rating β 29,923 ratings
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Midnight's Machines: A Political History of Technology in India
by:
Arun Mohan Sukumar
3.53 avg rating β 123 ratings
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Northeast India: A Political History
by:
Samrat Choudhury
3.97 avg rating β 30 ratings
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Articles of Faith: Religion, Secularism, and the Indian Supreme Court
by:
Ronojoy Sen
3.83 avg rating β 12 ratings
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
by:
Caroline Criado PΓ©rez
4.34 avg rating β 156,596 ratings
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The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by:
Martin Wolf
3.93 avg rating β 955 ratings
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When McKinsey Comes to Town
by:
Walt Bogdanich
3.80 avg rating β 10,392 ratings
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The Legal Right to Housing in India
by:
Anindita Mukherjee
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
by:
Daron AcemoΔlu
4.09 avg rating β 59,213 ratings
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Sex and the Supreme Court: How the Law is Upholding the Dignity of the Indian Citizen
by:
Saurabh Kirpal
4.09 avg rating β 56 ratings
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Caste Matters
by:
Suraj Yengde
4.11 avg rating β 485 ratings
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
by:
William Dalrymple
3.96 avg rating β 5,057 ratings
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Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World
by:
Thomas F. Madden
4.28 avg rating β 1,245 ratings
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The Origins of Victory: How Disruptive Military Innovation Determines the Fates of Great Powers
by:
Andrew F. Krepinevich
4.14 avg rating β 256 ratings
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B R Ambedkar: The Quest for Justice: Vols 1-5
by:
Aakash Singh Rathore
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Evolution of Pragmatism in India: An Intellectual Biography of B.R. Ambedkar
by:
Scott R. Stroud
4.55 avg rating β 20 ratings
28.
The Pashtuns: A Contested History
by:
Tilak Devasher
4.07 avg rating β 88 ratings
29.
India Is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today
by:
Ashoka Mody
4.24 avg rating β 256 ratings
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Citizenship in India
by:
Anupama Roy
3.78 avg rating β 9 ratings
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The Code of Capital: How the Law Creates Wealth and Inequality
by:
Katharina Pistor
4.03 avg rating β 914 ratings
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AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by:
Kai-Fu Lee
4.09 avg rating β 16,263 ratings
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BACKSTAGE: The Story behind Indiaβs High Growth Years
by:
Montek Singh Ahluwalia
4.36 avg rating β 605 ratings
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Daastan-e-Dastarkhan: Stories and Recipes from Muslim Kitchens
by:
Sadaf Hussain
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 25 ratings
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Discordant Notes, Volume 1: The Voice of Dissent in the Last Court of Last Resort
by:
Rohinton Fali Nariman
4.57 avg rating β 7 ratings
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Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and the United Kingdom
by:
Chintan Chandrachud
4.18 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
by:
Chris Miller
4.41 avg rating β 36,749 ratings
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A Saint, A Folk Tale and Other Stories: Lesser-known Monuments of India
by:
Rana Safvi
3.83 avg rating β 53 ratings
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In Search of the Divine: Living Histories of Sufism in India
by:
Rana Safvi
3.90 avg rating β 39 ratings
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Feasts and Fasts: A History of Food in India
by:
Colleen Taylor Sen
4.10 avg rating β 205 ratings
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Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities
by:
Bettany Hughes
4.10 avg rating β 2,031 ratings
42.
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by:
Peter Frankopan
4.17 avg rating β 46,205 ratings
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Jerusalem: The Biography
by:
Simon Sebag Montefiore
4.09 avg rating β 12,984 ratings
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Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilisation
by:
Abraham Eraly
4.09 avg rating β 219 ratings
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VISIBLE MUSLIM, INVISIBLE CITIZEN: Understanding Islam in Indian Democracy
by:
Salman Khurshid
2.92 avg rating β 24 ratings
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NANI PALKHIVALA - THE COURTROOM GENIUS
by:
Soli J. Sorabjee
4.33 avg rating β 598 ratings
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Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History
by:
Niraja Gopal Jayal
4.26 avg rating β 27 ratings
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King of Capital: The Remarkable Rise, Fall, and Rise Again of Steve Schwarzman and Blackstone
by:
David Carey
4.04 avg rating β 5,116 ratings
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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
by:
Ron Chernow
3.96 avg rating β 12,216 ratings
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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
by:
Ron Chernow
4.16 avg rating β 35,589 ratings
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Desi Delicacies: Food Writing from Muslim South Asia
by:
Claire Chambers
3.96 avg rating β 80 ratings
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Food and Faith: A Pilgrim's Journey through India
by:
Shoba Narayan
3.78 avg rating β 152 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
by:
Brad Stone
4.14 avg rating β 76,316 ratings
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Politics
by:
Aristotle
3.98 avg rating β 41,881 ratings
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Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by:
Robin Wigglesworth
3.98 avg rating β 1,437 ratings
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Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by:
Steven H. Strogatz
4.29 avg rating β 7,028 ratings
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The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
by:
Marc Levinson
3.86 avg rating β 6,744 ratings
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THE DEMOLITION AND THE VERDICT AYODHYA AND THE PROJECT TO RECONFIGURE INDIA
by:
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
4.18 avg rating β 11 ratings
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Sunrise over Ayodhya
by:
Salman Khurshid
2.76 avg rating β 45 ratings
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Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
by:
Ray Dalio
4.27 avg rating β 15,904 ratings
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by:
Yuval Noah Harari
4.16 avg rating β 172,946 ratings
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Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
by:
Yuval Noah Harari
4.19 avg rating β 278,886 ratings
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In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy
by:
Vijay Kelkar
4.21 avg rating β 344 ratings
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India Moving: A History of Migration
by:
Chinmay Tumbe
3.92 avg rating β 520 ratings
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Walking with Nanak
by:
Haroon Khalid
4.30 avg rating β 679 ratings
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Imagining Lahore: The city that is, the city that was
by:
Haroon Khalid
4.09 avg rating β 126 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
by:
Irving Stone
4.09 avg rating β 93,729 ratings
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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by:
Dan Koeppel
3.81 avg rating β 5,279 ratings
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
by:
Yasmin Cordery Khan
3.89 avg rating β 1,538 ratings
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Whole Numbers and Half Truths
by:
Rukmini S.
4.22 avg rating β 1,068 ratings
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Despite the State: Why India Lets Its People Down and How They Cope
by:
M. Rajshekhar
4.33 avg rating β 308 ratings
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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages
by:
Peggy Mohan
4.20 avg rating β 563 ratings
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The Garden of Truth: The Vision and Promise of Sufism, Islam's Mystical Tradition
by:
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
4.15 avg rating β 610 ratings
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The Essential Rumi
by:
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
4.39 avg rating β 49,827 ratings
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
by:
William Dalrymple
4.20 avg rating β 17,364 ratings
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
by:
William Dalrymple
4.35 avg rating β 4,901 ratings
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Himalaya: A Human History
by:
Ed Douglas
3.65 avg rating β 440 ratings
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My Own Words
by:
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
4.03 avg rating β 26,524 ratings
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India's Power Elite: Caste, Class and Cultural Revolution
by:
Sanjaya Baru
3.55 avg rating β 164 ratings
80.
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold (Stephen Fry's Great Mythology, #1)
by:
Stephen Fry
4.26 avg rating β 152,431 ratings
81.
The Idea of Justice
by:
Amartya Sen
4.02 avg rating β 2,027 ratings
82.
The Silent Coup: A History of India's Deep State
by:
Josy Joseph
4.38 avg rating β 1,092 ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by:
Albert Camus
4.22 avg rating β 63,603 ratings
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The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
by:
Will Durant
4.15 avg rating β 17,692 ratings
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Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
by:
William Dalrymple
4.05 avg rating β 3,683 ratings
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The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
by:
Azeem Azhar
3.99 avg rating β 1,287 ratings
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Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
by:
Rahul Pandita
4.26 avg rating β 7,513 ratings
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
by:
Shoshana Zuboff
4.06 avg rating β 12,764 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.17 avg rating β 197,569 ratings
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The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by:
Walter Isaacson
4.28 avg rating β 39,742 ratings
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TO THE BRINK AND BACK: India's 1991 Story
by:
Jairam Ramesh
3.49 avg rating β 547 ratings
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The Lost Decade (2008-18): How India's Growth Story Devolved into Growth Without a Story
by:
Puja Mehra
4.08 avg rating β 190 ratings
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The Myth of Sisyphus
by:
Albert Camus
4.18 avg rating β 83,916 ratings
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Radical in Ambedkar
by:
Anand Teltumbde
4.22 avg rating β 49 ratings
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Where Stones Speak : Historical Walks Through Mehrauli The First City Of Delhi
by:
Rana Safvi
3.75 avg rating β 55 ratings
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
by:
William Dalrymple
4.13 avg rating β 13,054 ratings
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Shahjahanabad: The Living City of Old Delhi
by:
Rana Safvi
4.15 avg rating β 40 ratings
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The Forgotten Cities of Delhi: Book Two in the Where Stones Speak trilogy
by:
Rana Safvi
3.88 avg rating β 51 ratings