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As Amma Lay Dying

Vaasanthi

Jayalalithaa was imperious even in her final hours

The Lone Empress: A Portrait of Jayalalithaa

The Lone Empress: A Portrait of Jayalalithaa

Vaasanthi

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables /

Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men: An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

BR Ambedkar | Introduction by Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd |Edited and Annotated by Alex George and S. Anand

Politics of Meat

Rohit Chakraborty

Updating Ambedkar’s understanding of how untouchability came to be and what it has become today

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia /

Mapping the Great Game: Explorers, Spies & Maps in Nineteenth-century Asia

Riaz Dean

Maps and Mavericks

Shail Desai

A well-rounded and engaging summary of how Imperial Russia and Great Britain tussled over Central Asia

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line /

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line

Deepa Anappara

Capital Saga

Nandini Nair

Deepa Anappara’s debut novel, set in a slum in metropolitan India, has the pace of a thriller and the heart of a children’s tale

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent /

Insurgent Empire: Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent

Priyamvada Gopal

The Colony Writes Back

Manu S Pillai

A magisterial rejoinder to the empire and its apologists

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light /

These, Our Bodies, Possessed by Light

Dharini Bhaskar

Family Ways

Vineetha Mokkil

Dharini Bhaskar’s debut novel is a lyrical exploration of relationships

Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India /

Words. Sounds. Images: A History of Media and Entertainment in India

Amit Khanna

The Changing Face of Media

Amit Khanna

In a society where multiple media are consumed simultaneously, traditional media are being forced to adapt

Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India /

Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India

Tripurdaman Singh

The Sword of Nehru

Zareer Masani

Are we still paying for the sins of the first secular, socialist Prime Minister?

Does India Negotiate? /

Does India Negotiate?

Karthik Nachiappan

Stubborn or Rational?

Sandeep Bhardwaj

Placing India in the global world order

The Rise of Goliath: Twelve Disruptions that Changed India /

The Rise of Goliath: Twelve Disruptions that Changed India

AK Bhattacharya

Points of Inflection

Mani Shankar Aiyar

A magisterial survey of India’s volatile growth story

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