Subcontinent


A Fine Balance
The White Tiger
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The God of Small Things
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
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The Far Pavilions
Such a Long Journey
Ambedkar by Salim YusufjiAmbedkar by Gail OmvedtIconoclast by Anand TeltumbdeAmbedkar's Preamble by Aakash Singh RathoreThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S Gore
Ambedkar — Books About Babasaheb
26 books — 3 voters
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonNeuromancer by William GibsonAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian HearnBridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
SF & F Atlas - Asia
118 books — 22 voters

Eating God by Arundhathi SubramaniamThe Interior Landscape by A.K. RamanujanHymns for the Drowning by NammalvarGive Us This Day a Feast of Flesh by N.D. RajkumarWild Embers by Nikita Gill
Indian Poetry
79 books — 5 voters
The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
734 books — 1,894 voters


Kanza Javed
People recover differently. Some change cities, some fall in love and some begin writing.
Kanza Javed, Ashes, Wine and Dust

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

More quotes...
India Reads Where nonfiction about India is shared and discussed. All are welcome!
5 members, last active 13 years ago
ISPaD A group with reading material relevant to The Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Projec…more
5 members, last active 10 years ago
Silent World — A discussion group A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent …more
1,561 members, last active 22 days ago
Underground Knowledge — A discussion group This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
24,508 members, last active 1 days ago