Subcontinent


A Fine Balance
The White Tiger
The God of Small Things
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
Train to Pakistan
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Midnight’s Children
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
The Namesake
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
A Passage to India
Until Our Voices Meet by Biswatosh SinhaReading New India by Emma Dawson VarugheseFive Point Someone by Chetan BhagatThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor2 States by Chetan Bhagat
21st Century Young India
50 books — 12 voters
Moth Smoke by Mohsin HamidA Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed HanifThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin HamidKartography by Kamila ShamsieUrdu Ki Akhri Kitaab / اردو کی آخری کتاب by Ibn e Insha
Notable Books by Pakistani Authors
271 books — 257 voters

Motherwit by Urmila PawarThe Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay NavariaThe Branded by Laxman Gaikwad
Dalit Literature
100 books — 10 voters
2 States by Chetan BhagatI Too Had a Love Story by Ravinder SinghThe 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan BhagatThe Immortals of Meluha by Amish TripathiRevolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
Indian Books - Fiction
1,131 books — 2,466 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Caste in Fiction
41 books — 1 voter
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
97 books — 12 voters

Khushwant Singh
Indians abroad tend to stick together. They join Indian clubs, regularly visit mosques, temples and gurdwaras and eat Indian food at home or in Indian restaurants. Very rarely do they mix with the English on the same terms as they do with their own countrymen. This kind of island-ghetto existence feeds on stereotypes - the English are very reserved; they do not invite outsiders to their homes because they regard their homes as their castles; English women are frigid, etc. I discovered that none ...more
Khushwant Singh, Truth, Love & A Little Malice

Kanza Javed
After everything is said and done, a memory remains a treacherous thing…How long does one cling on to the people they’ve lost? How long could I have remembered my grandfather? How long had it been since I forgotten him and my mind began harbouring other things?
Kanza Javed, Ashes, Wine and Dust

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