70 iconic Indian books

68 teosta 109,965 kirjaa 2,965 arvostelua ½ 4.0
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Indian Food: A Historical Companion (1994) (tekijä: K. T. Achaya)
Valkoinen tiikeri (2008) (tekijä: Aravind Adiga)
The Country without a Post Office (1997) (tekijä: Agha Shahid Ali)
Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan: Together with those of Bangladesh, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan and Sri Lanka 10 Volume Set (Vol 1-10) (2002) (tekijä: the late Salim Ali)
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 (1995) (tekijä: Shahid Amin)
The Upanishads (1884) (tekijä: Anonymous)
The Constitution of India (1993) (tekijä: P. M Bakshi)
The Wonder That Was India (1899) (tekijä: A. L. Basham)
Caste, class, and power; changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village (1965) (tekijä: Andre Beteille)
Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT, a Novel (2004) (tekijä: Chetan Bhagat)
India: planning for industrialization: industrialization and trade policies since 1951 (1970) (tekijä: Jagdish Bhagwati)
The Room on the Roof (1988) (tekijä: Ruskin Bond)
Kätkössä kauniin ikuisen : Mumbain slummien toivo ja toivottomuus (2012) (tekijä: Katherine Boo)
Sacred Games (2006) (tekijä: Vikram Chandra)
English, August: An Indian Story (1988) (tekijä: Upamanyu Chatterjee)
The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951) (tekijä: Nirad C. Chaudhuri)
My India (1952) (tekijä: Jim Corbett)
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (2006) (tekijä: William Dalrymple)
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age (2000) (tekijä: Gurcharan Das)
My Story (1973) (tekijä: Kamala Das)
Menetyksen perintö (2006) (tekijä: Kiran Desai)
All About H. Hatterr (1948) (tekijä: G. V. Desani)
Socialite Evenings (1989) (tekijä: Shobhaa De)
Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight (2009) (tekijä: Rujuta Diwekar)
Banaras (1982) (tekijä: Diana L. Eck)
The Siege of Krishnapur (1973) (tekijä: J. G. Farrell)
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (2014) (tekijä: Atul Gawande)
In an Antique Land (1992) (tekijä: Amitav Ghosh)
The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 101 Great Works 1100-1900 (2014) (tekijä: Brijinder Nath Goswamy)
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (2007) (tekijä: Ramachandra Guha)
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India (1983) (tekijä: Ranajit Guha)
The agrarian system of Mughal India, 1556-1707 (1999) (tekijä: Irfan Habib)
Light on Yoga (1976) (tekijä: B. K. S. Iyengar)
A Taste of India (1985) (tekijä: Madhur Jaffrey)
Gita Govinda: Love Song of the Dark Lord (1977) (tekijä: Jayadeva)
The Idea of India (1997) (tekijä: Sunil Khilnani)
Jejuri (1977) (tekijä: Arun Kolatkar)
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History (1724) (tekijä: D.D. Kosambi)
Politics in India (1982) (tekijä: Rajni Kothari)
Jungle and Backyard (A National Book Trust Book, India) (1967) (tekijä: M. Krishnan)
Tuore maa (2008) (tekijä: Jhumpa Lahiri)
The History and Culture of the Indian People (Set of XI Volumes) (2010) (tekijä: R. C. Majumdar)
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (2004) (tekijä: Suketu Mehta)
A Fine Balance (1995) (tekijä: Rohinton Mistry)
My Son's Father: An Autobiography (1968) (tekijä: Dom Moraes)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (2010) (tekijä: Siddhartha Mukherjee)
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays: The Dalit Movement in India (1750) (tekijä: D. R. Nagaraj)
Cuckold (1999) (tekijä: Kiran Nagarkar)
India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990) (tekijä: V. S. Naipaul)
The Guide (1958) (tekijä: R. K. Narayan)
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (1951) (tekijä: C. Rajagopalachari)
Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil (1985) (tekijä: A. K. Ramanujan)
Our Films Their Films (1976) (tekijä: Satyajit Ray)
Joutavuuksien jumala (1997) (tekijä: Arundhati Roy)
Keskiyön lapset (1981) (tekijä: Salman Rushdie)
Kaikkihan rakastavat kunnon kuivuutta : tarinoita todellisesta Intiasta (1996) (tekijä: P. Sainath)
Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History (1989) (tekijä: Kumkum Sangari)
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha (1968) (tekijä: Swami Satyananda Saraswati)
Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981) (tekijä: Amartya Sen)
Sopiva nuori mies (1993) (tekijä: Vikram Seth)
Train to Pakistan (1956) (tekijä: Khushwant Singh)
I Too Had a Love Story (2009) (tekijä: Ravinder Singh)
The Remembered Village (Center for South & Southeast Asia Studies) (1976) (tekijä: M. N. Srinivas)
A History of India, Vol. 1, Vol. 2. Two volume set. (Pelican Books, A769-A770) (1966) (tekijä: Romila Thapar)
600 B.C. to the Early Twentieth Century (1991) (tekijä: Susie Tharu)
The Immortals of Meluha (2010) (tekijä: Amish Tripathi)
An Anthology of Sanskrit Court Poetry: Vidyakara's "Subhasitaratnakosa" (Harvard Oriental Series) (1965) (tekijä: Vidyākara,)
Mahābhārata (C. Rajagopalachari ed.) (1979) (tekijä: Vyasa)

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