Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi
10 best books like Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (Katherine Frank): Gandhi: An autobiography, The Discovery of 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, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, The Forest of Enchantments, ONE LIFE IS NOT ENOUGH, The Accidental Prime Minister (The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh)
| Author | Mahatma Gandhi |
| ISBN | 0807059099 |
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most inspiring figures of our time. In his classic autobiography he recounts the story of his life and how he developed his concept of active nonviolent resistance, which propelled the Indian struggle for independence and countless other nonviolent struggles of the...
| 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 | 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 | Yasmin Khan |
| ISBN | 0300120788 |
The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom—through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and it benefited the few at the expense...
The Forest of Enchantments
| Author | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
| ISBN | 9353025982 |
The Ramayana, one of the world’s greatest epics, is also a tragic love story. In this brilliant retelling, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni places Sita at the centre of the novel: this is Sita’s version.
The Forest of Enchantments is also a very human story of some of the other women in the epic,...
A bureaucrat for over three decades—and then a vital player in Indian politics for over twenty years—K. Natwar Singh’s glittering career has been punctuated by the some of the most epochal events of independent India.
Initially attached to the Ministry of External Affairs as a diplomat,...
The Accidental Prime Minister (The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh)
In 2004 Sanjaya Baru left a successful career as chief editor of the Financial Express to join Manmohan Singh as his media adviser. Singh and Baru had been close and Baru, a great admirer of the technocrat who had ushered in the 1991 reforms, saw this as an opportunity to help a man he admired lead India down...
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...
