Understanding India

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When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 Carnage and its Aftermath
When a Tree Shook Delhi: The 1984 Carnage and its Aftermath 4.21 avg rating β€” 410 ratings
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Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits 4.26 avg rating β€” 7,513 ratings
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The Emergency: A Personal History
The Emergency: A Personal History really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1,068 ratings
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Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2010] Pavan K Verma
Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2010] Pavan K Verma 4.02 avg rating β€” 202 ratings
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The Essential Ambedkar
The Essential Ambedkar 4.32 avg rating β€” 75 ratings
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The Granta Book of India
The Granta Book of India
by: Ian Jack
3.93 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics 3.90 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
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Patriots and Partisans
Patriots and Partisans 3.90 avg rating β€” 1,276 ratings
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When The Moon Shines By Day
When The Moon Shines By Day 3.24 avg rating β€” 84 ratings
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Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History
Dalit Panthers: An Authoritative History 4.09 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point 3.88 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
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The Mammaries of the Welfare State
The Mammaries of the Welfare State 3.26 avg rating β€” 341 ratings
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Emergency Retold
Emergency Retold 4.08 avg rating β€” 417 ratings
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The Great Indian Middle Class
The Great Indian Middle Class 3.72 avg rating β€” 236 ratings
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For Reasons of State: Delhi Under Emergency
For Reasons of State: Delhi Under Emergency
by: Ajoy Bose
3.52 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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English, August: An Indian Story
English, August: An Indian Story 3.78 avg rating β€” 6,120 ratings
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Mother Pious Lady: Making Sense of Everyday India
Mother Pious Lady: Making Sense of Everyday India 3.84 avg rating β€” 607 ratings
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A Fine Balance
A Fine Balance 4.38 avg rating β€” 156,850 ratings
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Durbar
Durbar 3.95 avg rating β€” 2,143 ratings
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The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic
The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic 3.49 avg rating β€” 37 ratings
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Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy
Does the Elephant Dance? Contemporary Indian Foreign Policy 4.04 avg rating β€” 454 ratings
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The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India
The Silence And The Storm;Narratives Of Violence Against Women In India 4.16 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Siddhartha
Siddhartha 4.08 avg rating β€” 846,869 ratings
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My Son’s Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India
My Son’s Inheritance: A Secret History of Lynching and Blood Justice in India 4.11 avg rating β€” 72 ratings
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Ladies CoupΓ©
Ladies CoupΓ© 3.69 avg rating β€” 6,847 ratings
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The Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India
The Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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The Culture of India
The Culture of India 3.67 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement
Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement 1.59 avg rating β€” 85 ratings
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Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (Cross Cultures, 99)
Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India (Cross Cultures, 99) 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Makers of Modern Dalit History
Makers of Modern Dalit History 3.88 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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The Name is Rajinikanth
The Name is Rajinikanth 3.76 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
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Karya
Karya 3.46 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement
Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement 3.79 avg rating β€” 2,326 ratings
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Budhini
Budhini really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 157 ratings
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The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly?
The Caged Phoenix: Can India Fly? 4.15 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures: The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy
Breakfast with Evil and Other Risky Ventures: The Non-Essential Ashis Nandy really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands
Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Women Who Ruled the Ganglands 3.81 avg rating β€” 4,075 ratings
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The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
The Incarcerations: Bhima Koregaon and the Search for Democracy in India
by: Alpa Shah
4.52 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop
Khairlanji: A Strange and Bitter Crop 4.65 avg rating β€” 26 ratings
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Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India 4.07 avg rating β€” 8,473 ratings
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The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair With Luxury
The Cult of the Luxury Brand: Inside Asia's Love Affair With Luxury 3.94 avg rating β€” 119 ratings
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The Hinduism Omnibus
The Hinduism Omnibus 4.25 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India
In Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India 3.86 avg rating β€” 3,615 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 β€” 2,719 ratings
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Bollywood: A History
Bollywood: A History 3.36 avg rating β€” 73 ratings
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It Happened In India: The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer
It Happened In India: The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer 3.66 avg rating β€” 3,553 ratings
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The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty Through Profits 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,378 ratings
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating β€” 11,196 ratings
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The White Tiger
The White Tiger 3.77 avg rating β€” 200,091 ratings
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The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma 4.12 avg rating β€” 4,696 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 β€” 6,290 ratings
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Seeing Like a Feminist
Seeing Like a Feminist 4.26 avg rating β€” 1,550 ratings
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All Kinds of Magic
All Kinds of Magic 3.86 avg rating β€” 99 ratings
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Eating India
Eating India 3.56 avg rating β€” 333 ratings
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When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others
When God Is a Customer: Telugu Courtesan Songs by Ksetrayya and Others 4.22 avg rating β€” 46 ratings
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A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India
A Flowering Tree and Other Oral Tales from India 3.75 avg rating β€” 71 ratings
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Speaking of Siva
Speaking of Siva 4.14 avg rating β€” 437 ratings
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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty 3.27 avg rating β€” 1,005 ratings
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Powder Room : The Untold Story of Indian Fashion
Powder Room : The Untold Story of Indian Fashion 3.61 avg rating β€” 96 ratings
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My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia
My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia 3.83 avg rating β€” 479 ratings
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Eight Finger Eddie: The Hippie History of Goa and Kathmandu
Eight Finger Eddie: The Hippie History of Goa and Kathmandu
by: Earthman
4.03 avg rating β€” 35 ratings
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Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India
Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India 3.96 avg rating β€” 296 ratings
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A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka
A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka 4.39 avg rating β€” 114 ratings
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Elemental India : The Natural World In Crisis
Elemental India : The Natural World In Crisis 3.81 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Eunuch Park : Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruct
Eunuch Park : Fifteen Stories of Love and Destruct 2.94 avg rating β€” 107 ratings
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The Butterfly Generation
The Butterfly Generation 2.96 avg rating β€” 89 ratings
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House Spirit: Drinking in India-Stories, Essays, Poems
House Spirit: Drinking in India-Stories, Essays, Poems 3.18 avg rating β€” 34 ratings
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Collected Poems 1969-2014
Collected Poems 1969-2014 4.21 avg rating β€” 58 ratings
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The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala
The Absent Traveller: Prakrit Love Poetry from the Gathasaptasati of Satavahana Hala 4.19 avg rating β€” 106 ratings
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The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets
The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets 3.76 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica
Parrots of Desire: 3,000 Years of Indian Erotica 4.01 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
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Makers of Modern India
Makers of Modern India 3.95 avg rating β€” 1,587 ratings
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Gandhi Before India
Gandhi Before India 4.22 avg rating β€” 1,466 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 4.29 avg rating β€” 929 ratings
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Democrats and Dissenters
Democrats and Dissenters 3.90 avg rating β€” 593 ratings
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Theatres of Democracy: Between the Epic and the Everyday - Selected Essays
Theatres of Democracy: Between the Epic and the Everyday - Selected Essays 4.21 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development
A Carnival for Science: Essays on Science, Technology and Development 4.33 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India
Half Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India 4.43 avg rating β€” 2,314 ratings
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Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up
Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up 3.83 avg rating β€” 3,696 ratings
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The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys
The Penguin Book of Indian Journeys 3.68 avg rating β€” 44 ratings
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