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Gandhi

By Amy Pastan

Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj

By Marian Fowler

Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors

By Lizzie Collingham

The Country of the Sikhs, Punjab: The Punjab Under Sikh Rule 1799 AD to 1849 AD

By Henry Steinbach

Empire of Booze: British History Through the Bottom of a Glass

By Henry Jeffreys

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

By William Dalrymple

A River Journey: The Ganges

By Rob Bowden

The Ganges Delta and its People

By Flint, David

The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier (World Anthropology Series)

By Banerjee, Mukulika

Much Maligned Monsters: A History of European Reactions to Indian Art

By Mitter, Partha

The Great Tamasha: Cricket, Corruption and the Turbulent Rise of Modern India

By James Astill

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

By Katherine Boo

The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj

By David Gilmour

Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India

By Sujatha Gidla

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

The Duleep Singhs

By Peter Bance

Maharana

By Brian Masters

A Princess Remembers

By Gayatri

Freedom at Midnight

By Larry Collins, Dominique Lapierre

India - A Wounded Civilization

By V. S. Naipaul

Goa: A Traveller's Historical and Architectural Guide

By Antony Hutt

India: A History

By John Keay

Maharajas at the London Studio

By Russell Harris

The Guide to the Architecture of the Indian Subcontinent

By Takeo Kamiya, Geetha Parameswaran

History of Indian Archaeology: The Beginning to 1947

By Dilip K. Chakrabarti

Jim Corbett's India

By Jim Corbett, R.E. Hawkins

Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History

By Rozina Visram

Elephant, The Tiger And The Cell Phone: India: The Emerging 21st-Century Power

By Shashi Tharoor

Lord Cromer: Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By Roger Owen (, A. J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University)

The Idea of India

By Sunil Khilnani