Subcontinent


A Fine Balance
The White Tiger
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
The God of Small Things
Train to Pakistan
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Midnight’s Children
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
The Far Pavilions
Such a Long Journey
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Weave of My Life by Urmila PawarThe Prisons We Broke by Baby KambleThe Essential Writings of B. R. Ambedkar by B.R. AmbedkarMAHAD by Anand Teltumbde
Dalit History
105 books — 9 voters
A Current of Blood by Namdeo DhasalDays Will Come Back by Kamal Dev PallBlues from Bhimnagar by Yogesh MaitreyaDalit Voices in Indian Poetry by Sakunthala A.I.Letters to Namdeo Dhasal by Chandramohan S.
Dalit Poetry
24 books — 1 voter

Eating God by Arundhathi SubramaniamThe Interior Landscape by A.K. RamanujanHymns for the Drowning by NammalvarGive Us This Day a Feast of Flesh by N.D. RajkumarWild Embers by Nikita Gill
Indian Poetry
79 books — 5 voters
2 States by Chetan BhagatI Too Had a Love Story by Ravinder SinghThe 3 Mistakes of My Life by Chetan BhagatThe Immortals of Meluha by Amish TripathiRevolution 2020 by Chetan Bhagat
Indian Books - Fiction
1,113 books — 2,442 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarThe Persistence of Caste by Anand TeltumbdeUntouchables Castes in India by ShyamlalHaunted by Fire by Mythily SivaramanRepublic of Caste by Anand Teltumbde
Caste Discrimination
95 books — 3 voters
Memoirs of a Dalit Communist by R.B. MoreCaste Matters by Suraj YengdeThe Social Context of an Ideology by M S GoreMahad by Bojja TharakamAmbedkar by Narendra Jadhav
Ambedkarite
23 books — 1 voter

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Amitav Ghosh
That particular fear has the texture you can neither forget nor describe. It is like the fear of the victims of an earthquake, of people who have lost faith in the stillness of the earth. And yet it is not the same. It is without analogy for it is not comparable to the fear of nature, which is the most universal of human fears, nor to the fear of violence of the state, which is the commonest of modern fears. It is the fear that comes from the knowledge that normalcy is utterly contingent, that s ...more
Amitav Ghosh

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