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