India category: 2353 books
The Weave of My Life
A Dalit Woman's Memoirs
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
"My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing are organically linked. The weave is similar. It is the weave of pain, suffering, and agony that links us."
Activist and award-winning writer...
Maharanis
A Family Saga of Four Queens
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah, was to be tantalizingly close to the power and glamour of the Raj, but locked away in purdah as near chattel. Even the educated, progressive Maharani of Baroda, Chimnabai—born into the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny—began her marriage...
The Fishing Fleet
Husband-Hunting in the Raj
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
From the author of the critically acclaimed biographies Diana Mosley and The Viceroy's Daughters comes a fascinating, hugely entertaining account of the Victorian women who traveled halfway around the world on the hunt for a husband.
By the late nineteenth century, Britain's colonial reign...
Ruffling the Peacock’S Feathers
Stories from Village India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Book description: In fifteen stories unified by a piquant sense of place and vivid dialogue,readers are immediately taken away from Indias teeming cities to a single mud-walled village, "Saratpur", and its rich panoply of memorable characters. The author introduces you to his Hindu and Muslim...
Great Kings of India
Part II
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
This is the second of the three part series on Indian kings. In this part you will be able to review the biographies of:
Part II Ashoka Ambareesha Parashurama Bali
The Chaos of Empire
The British Raj and the Conquest of India
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days and torrid nights-chronicled by Forster and Kipling is a glamorous, nostalgic, but entirely fictitious. In this dramatic revisionist history, Jon Wilson...
by H.S.K
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Small of stature, simple and soft-spoken, Lal Bahadur proved to be one of the heroes of the history of India. A great general in Gandhij’s army of peaceful soldiers of freedom. He became the symbol of India's valor and self-respect.
Field Notes on Democracy
Listening to Grasshoppers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Arundhati Roy is among the most well-known writers and social justice activists in the world today, with a committed global audience. Her best-selling 1997 novel "The God of Small Things" and her courageous, popular interviews and essays on war and peace, contemporary India and Kashmir,...
by V. S. Naipaul
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2010
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darknessis Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India.
Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir,...
by Stan Blackford
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This is the heart-warming story of a backward boy coming from a dysfunctional family and a broken home. Unable to talk at age four, he was sent to a boarding school to learn to speak. Branded a moron and dragged through ten schools in seven years, he suddenly "finds his feet" and becomes dux...
The Aga Khan Case
religion and identity in colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. The Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe.
The Decline of the Caste Question
Jogendranath Mandal and the Defeat of Dalit Politics in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This revisionist history of caste politics in twentieth-century Bengal argues that the decline of caste-based politics in the region was as much the result of coercion as of consent. It traces this process through the political career of Jogendranath Mandal, the leader of the Dalit movement in eastern...
Mother, Where's My Country?
Looking for Light in the Darkness of Manipur
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
In her powerful, poignant book—one of the best non-fiction works from India in recent years—Anubha Bhonsle examines the tangled and tragic history of Manipur, and of much of India’s North East. Through the story of Irom Sharmila—on a protest fast since 2000—and many others who have fallen...
Contesting Colonial Authority
Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new...