India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age
10 best books like India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age (Gurcharan Das): English, August: An Indian Story, The Discovery of India, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, Freedom at Midnight, Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, India: A History, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, India's Struggle for Independence
| Author | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| ISBN | 1590171799 |
Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents...
| Author | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| ISBN | 0143031031 |
In conjunction with the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund in New Delhi, Oxford proudly announces the reissue of Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India, two famous works by Jawaharlal Nehru. One of modern day's most articulate statesmen, Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a on a wide variety of subjects....
| 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...
| Author | Larry Collins |
| ISBN | 8125904808 |
Oh goody, yet another book written through colonial tinted glasses.
It's a well written, easy reading book so I can see why it's so popular, and if it was labelled fictional, I'd give it four stars, for fictional it is, speaking of a world where the British Raj and it's leaders brought civilization...
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
| Author | Alex von Tunzelmann |
| ISBN | 0743285883 |
Tunzelmann has concocted a very readable and balanced history of the last days of Empire. Tunzelmann avoids demonizing any sect, individual or nation and shows the circuitous routes through which every decision was squeezed out, many tragedies averted and many more inadvertently precipitated....
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 | John Keay |
| ISBN | 0802137970 |
John Keay's India: A History is a probing and provocative chronicle of five thousand years of South Asian history, from the first Harrapan settlements on the banks of the Indus River to the recent nuclear-arms race. In a tour de force of narrative history, Keay blends together insights from a variety...
| Author | Nandan Nilekani |
| ISBN | 1594202044 |
A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader
India's recent economic boom—similar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europe's during the 1970s—has triggered tremendous social, political, and cultural change. The...
| 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...
| 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...
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...
