Makers of Modern India
10 best books like Makers of Modern India (Ramachandra Guha): Gandhi: An autobiography, The Discovery of India, In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, Freedom at Midnight, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity, India: A History, The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims, India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age, Imagining India: The Idea of a Renewed Nation, Everybody Loves a Good Drought
| 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 | 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...
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 | Arthur Llewellyn Basham |
Indian civilization is among the oldest in the world, and what is unique in that respect is that the culture of the peoples still remains largely unchanged, with a strong thread of continuity through the ages.
The Wonder That was India takes a look at the country's history from the time of the...
| 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...
| 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...
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...
