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No Easy Day: The Autobiography of a Navy SEAL : the Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden

By Mark Owen, Kevin Maurer

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

By William Dalrymple

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

By Ayesha Jalal (Columbia University, New York)

The Life of Mahatma Gandhi

By Louis Fischer

Rajmata Gayatri Devi

By Dharmender Kanwar

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

By Pamela Mountbatten

The Maharajah's Box: An Imperial Intrigue

By Christy Campbell

Ranji: Prince of Cricketers

By Alan ross

Venice

By Peter Ackroyd

The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten: Tours with the Prince of Wales

By Earl Louis Mountbatten Mountbatten of Burma, Philip Ziegler, Lord Louis Mountbatten

The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company

By William Dalrymple

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom

By Yen Mah, Adeline

Hindoo Holiday: An Indian Journal

By J. R. Ackerley, William Dalrymple

SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama Bin Laden

By Chuck Pfarrer

Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India

By Dalrymple, WILLIAM

Kashmir: The Untold Story

By Quraishi, Humra

Notes On The Great Indian Circus

By Khushwant Singh

Thank You Mr Crombie: Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British

By Mihir Bose

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

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

By Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Mahatma Gandhi and His Apostles

By Ved Mehta

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

By Edvard Radzinsky, MS Antonina W Bouis (Andrei Sakharov Foundation)

Summer: Vintage Minis

By Laurie Lee

The Life and Work of S. M. Dubnov: Diaspora Nationalism and Jewish History

By Sophie Dubnov-Erlich

My Feudal Lord

By Tehmina Durrani

An Autobiography: Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth

By Mahatma Gandhi

High Adventure

By Hillary, Sir Edmund

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

By Amit Chaudhuri

Krishnamurti: The Man, the Mystery and the Message

By Stuart Holroyd