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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

Poems And Prose: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

By Taylor Coleridge, Samuel

Black Elk Speaks

By John G. Neihardt

City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi

By Dalrymple, WILLIAM, William Dalrymple

Chronicle Of A Death Foretold

By Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Saint Kateri: Lily of the Mohawks

By Matthew E. Bunson, Margaret Bunson

Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy’s House

By Collins, Larry, Lapierre, Dominique

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

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

Krishnamurti: The Man, the Mystery and the Message

By Stuart Holroyd

High Adventure

By Hillary, Sir Edmund

Summer: Vintage Minis

By Laurie Lee

I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban

By Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb, Archie Panjabi

Calcutta: Two Years in the City

By Amit Chaudhuri

Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar

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