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
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
1,128 books — 2,465 voters

The Blue Bar by Damyanti BiswasA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryMidnight’s Children by Salman RushdieShantaram by Gregory David RobertsSwimming Lessons and Other Stories from Firozsha Baag by Rohinton Mistry
Best Mumbai/Bombay Stories
59 books — 104 voters
Motherwit by Urmila PawarDe Rerum Natura by David HillstromThe Exercise of Freedom by Susie TharuThe Grip of Change by P. SivakamiUnclaimed Terrain by Ajay Navaria
Dalit Literature
100 books — 13 voters

Khairlanji by Anand TeltumbdeHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanComing Out as Dalit by Yashica DuttSpotted Goddesses by Roja SinghVenomous Touch by Ravikumar
Dalit Nonfiction
94 books — 4 voters
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
I believe I did succeed in making Indian uslims look upon me as a friend: when I was nominated to be a member of the Rajya Sabha many said, "We have another Muslim in Parliament." Others who disliked my views called me an unpaid agent of Pakistan. I treated both views as compliments. ...more
Khushwant Singh, Truth, Love & A Little Malice

Ahmed Ali
The damage done by colonial powers to the heritage of conquered peoples is irreversible; yet racial memory is a collective storehouse that time and history cannot eradicate.
Ahmed Ali, Twilight in Delhi

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