English, August: An Indian Story

5 best books like English, August: An Indian Story (Upamanyu Chatterjee): Such a Long Journey, Train to Pakistan, The Shadow Lines, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy

Such a Long Journey

Author	Rohinton Mistry
ISBN	0771061315

It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh. A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father’s ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable...

Train to Pakistan

Author

Khushwant Singh

“In the summer of 1947, when the creation of the state of Pakistan was formally announced, ten million people—Muslims and Hindus and Sikhs—were in flight. By the time the monsoon broke, almost a million of them were dead, and all of northern India was in arms, in terror, or in hiding. The only remaining...

The Shadow Lines

Author

Amitav Ghosh

Opening in Calcutta in the 1960s, Amitav Ghosh's radiant second novel follows two families—one English, one Bengali—as their lives intertwine in tragic and comic ways. The narrator, Indian born and English educated, traces events back and forth in time, from the outbreak of World War II to the...

India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age

Author	Gurcharan Das
ISBN	0385720742

India today is a vibrant free-market democracy, a nation well on its way to overcoming decades of widespread poverty. The nation's rise is one of the great international stories of the late twentieth century, and in India Unbound the acclaimed columnist Gurcharan Das offers a sweeping economic history...

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...