Understanding India

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Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography 4.03 avg rating — 4,322 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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Train to Pakistan
Train to Pakistan 3.94 avg rating — 31,228 ratings
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The Incredible History of India's Geography
The Incredible History of India's Geography 4.14 avg rating — 887 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 — 12,325 ratings
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Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi
Kaleidoscope City: A Year in Varanasi 3.94 avg rating — 212 ratings
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The Palace of Illusions
The Palace of Illusions 4.20 avg rating — 61,965 ratings
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum 3.98 avg rating — 114,809 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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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,048 ratings
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India 3.86 avg rating — 3,615 ratings
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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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The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India
The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India 3.65 avg rating — 638 ratings
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A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi
A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi 3.74 avg rating — 1,149 ratings
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Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India
Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India 4.32 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Anu: The Raj Years
Anu: The Raj Years 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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The Gypsy Goddess
The Gypsy Goddess 3.77 avg rating — 587 ratings
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India in the Age of Ideas: Select Writings: 2006-2018
India in the Age of Ideas: Select Writings: 2006-2018 3.83 avg rating — 242 ratings
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Anu: The Nomad Years
Anu: The Nomad Years 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India. 3.79 avg rating — 147 ratings
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The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline
The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline 3.99 avg rating — 395 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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Anu: The Yo-Yo Years
Anu: The Yo-Yo Years it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Untouchable God
Untouchable God
by: Kancha I
4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Being Indian : Inside the Real India
Being Indian : Inside the Real India 3.72 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: India, China, and the New World Order
Growling Tiger, Roaring Dragon: India, China, and the New World Order liked it 3.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947
Patriots, Poets and Prisoners: Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things 3.96 avg rating — 317,132 ratings
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The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History
The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History 4.27 avg rating — 1,906 ratings
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Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire 4.09 avg rating — 4,832 ratings
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Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle
Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle 4.06 avg rating — 4,432 ratings
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The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India 4.08 avg rating — 982 ratings
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The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss 3.45 avg rating — 54,325 ratings
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The Twentieth Wife (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #1)
The Twentieth Wife (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #1) 4.07 avg rating — 16,580 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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Clear Light of Day
Clear Light of Day 3.72 avg rating — 4,002 ratings
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The Liberals
The Liberals 3.71 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Far Field
The Far Field 3.87 avg rating — 10,987 ratings
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Anticipating India : The best of National Interest
Anticipating India : The best of National Interest 3.61 avg rating — 168 ratings
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What Young India Wants
What Young India Wants 3.26 avg rating — 9,892 ratings
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Fasting, Feasting
Fasting, Feasting 3.35 avg rating — 5,203 ratings
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The Sacred Sword
The Sacred Sword 3.63 avg rating — 93 ratings
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia 3.82 avg rating — 23,503 ratings
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The Death of Vishnu
The Death of Vishnu 3.62 avg rating — 9,324 ratings
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Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy
Recasting India: How Entrepreneurship is Revolutionizing the World's Largest Democracy 3.78 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Feast of Roses (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #2)
The Feast of Roses (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #2) 4.10 avg rating — 7,222 ratings
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Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me
Editor Unplugged: Media, Magnates, Netas and Me 3.66 avg rating — 412 ratings
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Riot
Riot 3.76 avg rating — 1,801 ratings
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The Modern Monk
The Modern Monk 3.71 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Shadow Princess (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #3)
Shadow Princess (Taj Mahal Trilogy, #3) 3.76 avg rating — 3,283 ratings
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Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University)
Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University) 3.62 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Ambedkar
Ambedkar 4.31 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You
Being Hindu: Old Faith, New World and You 3.86 avg rating — 339 ratings
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Red Sun
Red Sun 3.74 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Annihilation of Caste
Annihilation of Caste 4.61 avg rating — 8,309 ratings
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The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages
The Ancient Science of Mantras: Wisdom of the Sages
by: Om Swami
4.32 avg rating — 577 ratings
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Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis
Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis 3.88 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Anna Hazare [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2011] NA
Anna Hazare [Paperback] [Jan 01, 2011] NA 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Ladakh: A Piece of Broken Moon Land: The Photography Book
Ladakh: A Piece of Broken Moon Land: The Photography Book 4.06 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Romantics
The Romantics 3.56 avg rating — 1,542 ratings
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From Bihar to Tihar: My Political Journey
From Bihar to Tihar: My Political Journey 4.03 avg rating — 434 ratings
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Understanding Shiva
Understanding Shiva 3.84 avg rating — 69 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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Making a Difference Memoirs From the Women's Movement in India
Making a Difference Memoirs From the Women's Movement in India 3.20 avg rating — 10 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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The Scattered Leaves of My Life: An Indian Nationalist Remembers
The Scattered Leaves of My Life: An Indian Nationalist Remembers 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company
The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company
by: John Keay
3.75 avg rating — 664 ratings
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Wings of Fire: An Autobiography
Wings of Fire: An Autobiography 4.29 avg rating — 53,682 ratings
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Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India
Snakes and Ladders: Glimpses of Modern India 3.64 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India 3.80 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes
Maid in India: Stories of Inequality and Opportunity Inside Our Homes 3.72 avg rating — 114 ratings
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Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India
Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India 3.68 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East
Karma Cola: Marketing the Mystic East 3.54 avg rating — 1,059 ratings
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Don’t Want Caste
Don’t Want Caste 4.07 avg rating — 41 ratings
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India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century
India in Love: Marriage and Sexuality in the 21st Century 3.80 avg rating — 342 ratings
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The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader
The Way I See It: A Gauri Lankesh Reader 4.42 avg rating — 59 ratings
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The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay
The Lost Flamingoes of Bombay 3.31 avg rating — 855 ratings
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The Republic of Reason: Words They Could Not Kill
The Republic of Reason: Words They Could Not Kill 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines 3.41 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Don't Kill Him! The Story of My Life with Bhagwan Rajneesh
Don't Kill Him! The Story of My Life with Bhagwan Rajneesh 3.61 avg rating — 424 ratings
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India Uninc.
India Uninc. 3.91 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Capital: The Eruption of Delhi
Capital: The Eruption of Delhi 4.08 avg rating — 1,026 ratings
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Path of the Parivar: Articles on Gujarat and Hindutva
Path of the Parivar: Articles on Gujarat and Hindutva really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Do And Die : The Chittagong Uprising 1930-34
Do And Die : The Chittagong Uprising 1930-34 4.06 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat
Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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India Psychedelic - The Story of a Rocking Generation
India Psychedelic - The Story of a Rocking Generation 3.71 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Why I am a Hindu
Why I am a Hindu 3.72 avg rating — 3,860 ratings
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The Idea of India
The Idea of India 3.84 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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JNU Row 2016: How democracy revealed the cracks in the Indian Society
JNU Row 2016: How democracy revealed the cracks in the Indian Society it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Around India in 80 Trains
Around India in 80 Trains 3.50 avg rating — 2,688 ratings
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What the Nation Really Needs to Know: The JNU Nationalism Lectures
What the Nation Really Needs to Know: The JNU Nationalism Lectures 4.28 avg rating — 80 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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India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh
India Stinking: Manual Scavengers in Andhra Pradesh liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars 3.65 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in 21st Century India
by: Alpa Shah
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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The Accidental Prime Minister
The Accidental Prime Minister 3.73 avg rating — 5,561 ratings
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Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience
Black Coffee in a Coconut Shell: Caste as Lived Experience 4.23 avg rating — 66 ratings
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If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India
If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India 4.04 avg rating — 712 ratings
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A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India
A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India 4.28 avg rating — 2,675 ratings
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