Books have been man’s best companion since time immemorial. Thousands and thousands of books are printed in India and around the world in a year .Lets have a look at the books and their authors starting from ancient India to modern India.
AUTHORS | BOOKS |
Ancient India | |
Amar Sinha | Amar kosa |
Aryabhatta | Surya Siddhanta Aryabhattiyam |
Bhavabhuti | Uttararamacharita Malathi Madhava Bharthuharishataka |
Bhasa | Dhutavakya Swapnavasavadata |
Bharthuhari | Vishnupurana Shivpurana |
Fa-Hien | Gokoki |
Panini | Ashtadhyayi |
Patanjali | Mahabhashya |
Manu | Drarmashastra |
Kalidasa | Shakuntala, Raghu Vamsa, Meghaduta Malavikagnimitra Ritu Samhara |
Samudragupta | Kaviraja |
Varahamihara | Brihat Samhita Pancha Siddhantika Brihat Jataka Navanitakam |
Vatsayana | Nyayabhasya Kamasutra |
Medieval India | |
Tarikh-i-hind | Alberuni |
Laila-majnu | Amir Khusrao |
Tughlaqnama | Amir Khurao |
Kitab-fi-Tahriq | Alberuni |
Shah Nama | Firdausi |
Kitab-ul-Rahla | Ibn Battuta |
Akbar Nama | Abu Fazl |
Humayun Nama | Gulbadan Begum |
Few Important Contemporary Authors and Books:
BOOKS | AUTHORS |
A Bend in the river | V S Naipaul |
A Foreign Policy for India | I K Gujral |
A Himalayan Love Story | Namita Gokhale |
A Possible India | Partha Chatterjee |
A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets | Abdulla Kamal |
A Reveolutionary Life | Laxmi Sehgal |
A Secular Agenda | Arun Shourie |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth |
Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy | J N Dixit |
Agni Pariksha | Acharya Tulsi |
Agni Veena | Kazi Nazrul Islam |
An Autobiography | Jawaharlal Nehru |
An idealist View of Life | Dr S Radhakrishnan |
Anandmath | Bankim Chandra Chatterjee |
Answer to History | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi |
Area of Darkness | V S Naipaul |
Arion and the Dolphin | Vikram Seth |
Assignment Colombo | J N Dixit |
Atoms of Hope | Mohan Sundara Rajan |
Autobiography of an Unknown Indian | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
Bend in the Ganges | Manohar Malgonkar |
Between the Lines | Kuldip Nayar |
Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord | Rasheedud-din Khan |
Bisarjan | R N Tagore |
Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition | Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin |
Bread, Beauty and Revolution | Khwaja Ahmed Abbas |
Breaking the Silence | Anees Jung |
Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories | Khushwant Singh |
Bridge’s Book of Beauty | Mulk Raj Anand |
Broken Wings | Sarojini Naidu |
Bubble | Mulk Raj Anand |
Bunch of Old Letters | Jawaharlal Nehru |
By God’s Decree | Kapil Dev |
Canvass of Life | Sheila Gujral |
Chinese Betrayal | B N Mullick |
Chitra | Rabindranath Tagore |
Confessions of a Lover | Mulk Raj Anand |
Confrontation with Pakistan | Gen B M Kaul |
Conquest of Self | Mahatma Gandhi |
Continent of Circle | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
Coolie | Mulk Raj Anand |
Crescent Moon | Rabindranath Tagore |
Crescent Over Kashmir | Anil Maheshwari |
Crisis into Chaos | E M S Namboodiripad |
Culture in the Vanity Bag | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
Curtain Raisers | K Natwar Singh |
Dark Room | R K Narayan |
Daughter of the East | Benazir Bhutto |
Day in Shadow | Nayantara Sehgal |
Days of My Years | H P Nanda |
Death-The Supreme Friend | Kakasaheb Kalelkar |
Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi | D R Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar |
Democracy Redeemed | V K Narsimhan |
Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Distant Drums | Manohar Malgonkar |
Distant Neighbours | Kuldip Nayar |
Divine Life | Swami Sivananda |
East of Eden | B N Mullick |
East West | Salman Rushdie |
Economic Planning of India | Ashok Mehta |
Economics of the Third World | S K Ray |
Essays On Gita | Aurobindo Ghosh |
Eternal Himalayas | Major H P S Ahluwalia |
Eternal India | Indira Gandhi |
Eternity | Anwar Shaikh |
Faith & Fire: A Way Within | Madhu Tandon |
Fall of a Sparrow | Salim Ali |
Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India | V K R V Rao |
Forbidden Sea | Tara Ali Baig |
Friends and Foes | Sheikh Mujibur Rehman |
Friends, Not Masters | Ayub Khan |
From India to America | S Chandrashekhar |
Gita Rahasya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Gitanjali | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
Glimpses of Indian Ocean | Z A Quasim |
Glimpses of World History | Jawaharlal Nehru |
Godan | Munshi Prem Chand |
Golden Gate | Vikram Seth |
Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
Great Depression of 1990 | Ravi Batra |
Guide | R K Narayan |
Gul-e-Naghma | Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri |
Hindu View of Life | Dr S Radhakrishnan |
History of Hindu Chemistry | Sir P C Ray |
Hitopadesh | R K Narayan |
Hind Swaraj | M K Gandhi |
Hinduism | Nirad C Chaudhary |
I am not an Island | K A Abbas |
I Muse; Therefore I am | V N Narayanan |
Idols | Sunil Gavaskar |
India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium | Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & Dr Y S Rajan |
India-A Wounded Civilisation | V S Naipaul |
India-From Curzon to Nehru and After | Durga Dass |
India-From Midnight to the Millennium | Shashi Tharoor |
India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) | Raghu Rai |
India in Transition | Prof Jagdish Bhagwati |
India of Our Dreams | M V Kamath |
India Today | Rajni Palme Dutt |
Indian Home Rule | M K Gandhi |
Indian Philosophy | Dr S Radhakrishnan |
India’s Economic Crisis | Dr Bimal Jalan |
Essay’s for Manmohan Singh | I J Ahluwalia & M D Little |
Indian Arms Bazaar | Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain |
India Divided | Rajendra Prasad |
India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
Indian Muslims | Prof Mohd Mujeeb |
India, the Critial Years | Kuldip Nayar |
Inside the CBI | Joginder Singh |
Insider | P V Narsimha Rao |
It is Always Possible | Kiran Bedi |
Jai Somnath | K M Munshi |
Jaguar Smile | Salman Rushdie |
Kashmir-A Tale of Shame | Hari Jaisingh |
Kashmir-Behind the Vale | M J Akbar |
Kashmir in the Crossfire | Victoria Shaffield |
Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors | Tavleen Singh |
Keepers of the Keys | Milan Kundera |
Koraner Nari | Taslima Nasreen |
Kore Kagaz | Amrita Pritam |
Kulliyat | Ghalib |
Lajja | Taslima Nasreen |
Legacy of a Divided Nation | Prof Mushirul Hasan |
Life Divine | Aurobindo Ghosh |
Life is Elsewhere | Milan Kundera |
Lipika | Rabindranath Tagore |
Lost Child | Mulk Raj Anand |
Love and Longing in Bombay | Vikram Chandra |
Love in A Blue Time | Hanif Khureshi |
Love, Truth and A Little Malice | Khushwant Singh |
Mahabharata | Vyasa |
Mahatma Gandhi | Girija Kumar Mathur |
Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy | lqbal Akhund |
Men Who Killed Gandhi | Manohar Malgonkar |
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie |
Million Mutinies Now | V S Naipaul |
Mistaken identity | Nayantara Sehgal |
Modern South Asia: History, Culture, | Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal |
Political Economy | Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal |
Moor’s Last Sigh | Salman Rushdie |
Muslim Law and the Constitution | A M Bhattacharjea |
My Days | R K Narayan |
My Early Life | M K Gandhi |
My Experiment With Truth | M K Gandhi |
My Life and Times | V V Giri |
My Own Boswell | M Hidayatullah |
My India | S Nihal Singh |
My Music, My Love | Ravi Shankar |
My Presidential Years | Ramaswamy Venkataraman |
My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
My Prison Diary | J P Narayan |
Naari | Humayun Azad |
Naked Triangle | Balwant Gargi |
Nehru Family and Sikhs | Harbans Singh |
Netaji-Dead or Alive | Samar Guha |
New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy | Atal Behari Vajpayee |
Nice Guys Finish Second | B K Nehru |
Nisheeth | Uma Shankar Joshi |
Nirbashita Narir Kabita | Taslima Nasreen |
Non-Violence in Peace and War | M K Gandhi |
One-eyed Uncle | Laxmikant Mahapatra |
Our Films, Their Films | Satyajit Ray |
Our India | Minoo Masani |
Painter of Signs | R K Narayan |
Pakistan in the 20th Century | Lawrence Ziring |
Pakistan Papers | Mani Shankar Aiyer |
Pakistan Cut to Size | D R Mankekar |
Passage to England | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
Pinjar | Amrita Pritam |
Prem Pachisi | Prem Chand |
Premonitions | P N Haksar |
Price of Partition | Rafiq Zakaria |
Prison and Chocolate Cake | Nayantara Sehgal |
Prison Diary | Jayaprakash Narayan |
Prisoner’s Scrapbook | L K Advani |
Profiles & Letters | K Natwar Singh |
Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood | K P S Gill |
Quest for Conscience | Madhu Dandavate |
Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) | Gulzar |
Rediscovering Gandhi | Yogesh Chadha |
Reminiscences of the Nehru Age | M O Mathai |
Road to Freedom | K K Khullar |
Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims | Rafiq Zakaria |
Satyartha Prakash | Swami Dayanand |
Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie |
Savitri | Aurobindo Ghosh |
Sceptred Flute | Sarojini Naidu |
Scholar Extraordinary | Nirad C Chaudhuri |
Scope of Happiness | Vijayalakshmi Pandit |
Search for Home | Sasthi Brata |
Sense of Time | S H Vatsyayan |
Seven Summers | Mulk Raj Anand |
Tarkash | Javed Akhtar |
Tehriq-e-Mujahideen | Dr Sadiq Hussain |
The Assassination | K Mohandas |
The Calcutta Chromosome | Amitav Ghosh |
The Chinese Betrayal | B N Mullick |
Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
Until Darkness | Parvin Ghaffari |
Untouchable | Mulk Raj Anand |
Vanity Fair | Thackeray |
Vendor of Sweets | R K Narayan |
Village by the Sea | Anita Desai |
Village | Mulk Raj Anand |
Voice of Conscience | V V Giri |
Voice of Freedom | Nayantara Sehgal |
Waiting for the Mahatma | R K Narayan |
Walls of Glass | K A Abbas |
War of Indian Independence | Vir Savarkar |
We, Indians | Khushwant Singh |
Wings of fire, an Autobiography | Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & A. Tiwari |
Without Fear or Favour | Neelam Sanjiva Reddy |
Women and Men in My Life | Khushwant Singh |
Worshipping False Gods | Arun Shourie |
Wreck | Rabindra Nath Tagore |
Yajnaseni | Dr Pratibha Roy |
Year of the Vulture | Amita Malik |
Years of Pilgrimage | Dr Raja Ramanna |
Yesterday and Today | K P S Menon |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan | Rafi Raza |
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