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Empires of the Indus: 10th Anniversary Edition

By Alice Albinia

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

By Pankaj Mishra

Mahatma Gandhi: His Life and Influence

By Chandra Kumar, Mohinder Puri

Excavating The Past: The Indus Valley Paperback

City Of Djinns: A Year In Delhi

By William Dalrymple

Courting India: England, Mughal India and the Origins of Empire

By Nandini Das

The Invisibles: Tale of the Eunuchs of India

By Zia Jaffrey

City of Joy

By Lapierre

The Hidden History of Burma: A Crisis of Race and Capitalism

By Thant Myint-U

Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

By Benjamin Robert Siegel (Boston University)

Modern India: The Origins of an Asian Democracy

By Judith M. Brown (Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, Beit Professor of Commonwealth History, University of Oxford)

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy

By Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal (Tufts University, USA)

White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in 18th-century India

By William Dalrymple

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives

By Francis Robinson

The Great Moghuls

By Bamber Gascoigne, Christina Gascoigne

The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan

By Ayesha Jalal (Columbia University, New York)

The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty

By Joseph Sassoon

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

By Louis Fischer

EXPLORING HISTORY INDIA

Rajmata Gayatri Devi

By Dharmender Kanwar

India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power

By Pamela Mountbatten

Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines and the Health of Nations

By Simon Schama

Dr. Brighton's Indian Patients December 1914-January 1916

By Joyce Collins

Step into Ancient India

By Daud Ali

The Corner Shop: A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick

By Babita Sharma

Smoke And Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

By AMITAV GHOSH

Galbraith Reader

By John Kenneth Galbraith

In Search of Amrit Kaur: An Indian Princess in Wartime Paris

By Livia Manera Sambuy, Todd Portnowitz

The Nehrus and the Gandhis

By T. Ali

China's Tibet?: Autonomy or Assimilation

By Warren W. Smith, Jr.