Reddit's top favourite Non-Fiction books about India

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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy 4.39 avg rating — 18,029 ratings
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Gandhi: An Autobiography
Gandhi: An Autobiography 4.10 avg rating — 73,823 ratings
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Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia
Dongri To Dubai : Six Decades of The Mumbai Mafia 3.95 avg rating — 10,508 ratings
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The Discovery of India
The Discovery of India 4.09 avg rating — 8,511 ratings
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India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age 4.09 avg rating — 6,290 ratings
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Everybody Loves a Good Drought
Everybody Loves a Good Drought 4.34 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi 4.13 avg rating — 13,054 ratings
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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity 3.83 avg rating — 8,730 ratings
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 4.19 avg rating — 8,403 ratings
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Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century
Pax Indica: India and the World of the 21st Century 3.87 avg rating — 2,273 ratings
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The Indians: Portrait of a People
The Indians: Portrait of a People 3.74 avg rating — 273 ratings
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Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation
Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation 3.85 avg rating — 2,719 ratings
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The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World
The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World 4.12 avg rating — 1,433 ratings
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Chanakya's New Manifesto to Resolve the Crisis within India
Chanakya's New Manifesto to Resolve the Crisis within India 3.54 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims
The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims 4.11 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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India's Struggle for Independence
India's Struggle for Independence 4.12 avg rating — 4,586 ratings
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The Principal Upanishads: Edited with Introduction, Text, Translation and Notes
The Principal Upanishads: Edited with Introduction, Text, Translation and Notes 4.36 avg rating — 398 ratings
17.
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating — 11,196 ratings
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Jangalnama: Travels in a Maoist Guerilla Zone
Jangalnama: Travels in a Maoist Guerilla Zone 3.43 avg rating — 42 ratings
20.
Being Indian : Inside the Real India
Being Indian : Inside the Real India 3.72 avg rating — 641 ratings
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The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power 3.59 avg rating — 1,218 ratings
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A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport 4.28 avg rating — 930 ratings
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Glimpses of World History
Glimpses of World History 4.32 avg rating — 2,135 ratings
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In Spite Of The Gods
In Spite Of The Gods 3.86 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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Caste System : Myths Reality Challenge
Caste System : Myths Reality Challenge 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud
Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud 4.27 avg rating — 592 ratings
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Tughlaq: A Play in Thirteen Scenes
Tughlaq: A Play in Thirteen Scenes 3.98 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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India: A History
India: A History
by: John Keay
3.93 avg rating — 3,961 ratings
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From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India
From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Modern India 4.20 avg rating — 1,115 ratings
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Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System
by: Raj Patel
3.93 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India 4.17 avg rating — 12,327 ratings
32.
Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast
Following Fish: Travels around the Indian Coast 3.95 avg rating — 1,108 ratings
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India: The Emerging Giant
India: The Emerging Giant 4.07 avg rating — 110 ratings
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India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India
India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in Modern India 3.68 avg rating — 532 ratings
33.
Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300
Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 3.62 avg rating — 2,007 ratings
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We are like that only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India
We are like that only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India 3.79 avg rating — 513 ratings
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Let's Call Him Vasu: With the Maoists in Chhattisgarh
Let's Call Him Vasu: With the Maoists in Chhattisgarh 3.84 avg rating — 124 ratings
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Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India
Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India 4.22 avg rating — 41 ratings
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Breaking Free of Nehru
Breaking Free of Nehru 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
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The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century
The Origins of Yoga and Tantra: Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century 4.41 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Ear to the Ground: Writings on Class and Caste
Ear to the Ground: Writings on Class and Caste 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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COMMUNAL RAGE IN SECULAR INDIA
COMMUNAL RAGE IN SECULAR INDIA 3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South
The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South 4.03 avg rating — 298 ratings
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Mumbai Fables
Mumbai Fables 3.58 avg rating — 408 ratings
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The Algebra of Infinite Justice
The Algebra of Infinite Justice 3.99 avg rating — 2,128 ratings
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Runs 'n Ruins
Runs 'n Ruins 3.51 avg rating — 67 ratings
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AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India
AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India 3.91 avg rating — 255 ratings
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Red Sun
Red Sun 3.74 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Journeys Through Babudom and Netaland: Governance in India
Journeys Through Babudom and Netaland: Governance in India 4.05 avg rating — 150 ratings
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Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit
Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit 3.91 avg rating — 716 ratings
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Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny 3.84 avg rating — 2,186 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity 3.98 avg rating — 114,817 ratings