An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions
10 best books like An Uncertain Glory: India and Its Contradictions (Jean Drèze): In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, Makers of Modern India, The Idea of India, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, The State of The Nation, India's Struggle for Independence, Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement, Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Author | Edward Luce |
| ISBN | 0385514743 |
I'll be frank - each part of the book is factual and correct. Yet, it misses the mark as whole. Reading Mr. Luce's biography, I had expected he is a westerner (for want of a better word) who also understands the spirit of what drives India as a nation. After reading his book, I have realized yet again, that...
In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentative tradition is vital for the success of its democracy and secular politics. The Argumentative Indian is "a bracing sweep through aspects of Indian...
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0674052463 |
Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers...
Sunil Khilnani’s exciting book addresses the paradoxes and ironies that have surrounded the project of inventing India—a project that has brought Indians considerable political freedom and carried their enormous democracy to the verge of being Asia’s greatest free state but that has also...
| Author | P. Sainath |
| ISBN | 0140259848 |
The human face of poverty
The poor in India are, too often, reduced to statistics. In the dry language of development reports and economic projections, the true misery of the 312 million who live below the poverty line, or the 26 million displaced by various projects, or the 13 million who suffer...
A definitive, analytical and meticulous account of the present state of the nation – from a constitutional perspective – by one of India’s most respected legal luminaries.
An ardent defender of the Constitution of India, Fali Nariman has today attained the status of an outstanding...
| Author | Bipan Chandra |
| ISBN | 0140107819 |
This is the first major study to examine every one of the varied strands of the epic struggle individually and collectively and present it in a new and coherent narrative and analytical framework. Basing themselves on oral and other primary sources and years of research, the authors take the reader...
| Author | Rahul Pandita |
| ISBN | 9380658346 |
With direct access to the top Maoist leadership, Rahul Pandita provides an authoritative account of how a handful of men and women, who believed in the idea of revolution, entered Bastar in Central India in 1980 and created a powerful movement that New Delhi now terms India's biggest internal security...
Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India's Geography
| Author | Sanjeev Sanyal |
| ISBN | 0670086398 |
Did the Great Flood of Indian legend actually happen? Why did the Buddha walk to Sarnath to give his first sermon? How did the Europeans map India?
The history of any country begins with its geography. With sparkling wit and intelligence, Sanjeev Sanyal sets off to explore India and look at how the...
India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
| Author | Ramachandra Guha |
| ISBN | 0060198818 |
A magisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world's largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha's India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that have...
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity
| Author | Douglas Murray |
| ISBN | 1635579988 |
The challenging and brilliantly-argued new book from the bestselling author of The Strange Death of Europe.
In his devastating new book The Madness of Crowds, Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals...
The Difficulty of Being Good: On the Subtle Art of Dharma
| Author | Gurcharan Das |
| ISBN | 0670083496 |
In his new book, Gurcharan Das turns to the Mahabharata in order to answer the question, "why be good'', and discovers that the epic's world of moral haziness and uncertainty is closer to our experience as ordinary human beings than the narrow and rigid positions that define most debate in this fundamentalist...
