Dark & Twisty
Genres

Subcontinent


Subcontinent Books

A Fine Balance
The White Tiger
The God of Small Things
The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire
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
The Namesake
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
A Passage to India
More subcontinent books...

Lists

The Kite Runner by Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled HosseiniA Fine Balance by Rohinton MistryThe God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyThe Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Best South Asian Fiction
766 books — 1,934 voters
Ghachar Ghochar by Vivek ShanbhagCobalt Blue by Sachin KundalkarOne Part Woman by Perumal MuruganSamskara by U.R. AnanthamurthyPather Panchali by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
Indian Fiction Translated Into English
310 books — 26 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyRed Queen by Victoria AveyardThe Fifth Season by N.K. JemisinThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Caste in Fiction
41 books — 1 voter
The Ghost Bride by Yangsze ChooThe Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley RobinsonThe Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken LiuNeuromancer by William GibsonAcross the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn
SF & F Atlas - Asia
118 books — 23 voters

Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarHating Self by Boo BlackWho were the Shudras? by B.R. AmbedkarThe Buddha and his Dhamma by Aakash Singh RathoreCastes in India by B.R. Ambedkar
Ambedkar
97 books — 12 voters
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. AmbedkarBhimayana by Srividya NatarajanWomen, Race, and Class by Angela Y. DavisTurning the Pot, Tilling the Land by Kancha IlaiahBlindness of Insight by Dilip M. Menon
Social Justice Books: Navayana Publishing
100 books — 4 voters

Quotes Tagged “Subcontinent”

Muhammad Ali Jinnah
“ India is not a nation, nor a country. It is a subcontinent of nationalities. ”
― Muhammad Ali Jinnah
118 likes

Kanza Javed
“ After everything is said and done, a memory remains a treacherous thing…How long does one cling on to the people they’ve lost? How long could I have remembered my grandfather? How long had it been since I forgotten him and my mind began harbouring other things? ”
― Kanza Javed, Ashes, Wine and Dust
14 likes

More quotes...

Groups Tagged "Subcontinent"

Underground Knowledge — A discussion group This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
25,974 members, last active 30 minutes ago
ISPaD A group with reading material relevant to The Indian Subcontinent Partition Documentation Projec…more
5 members, last active 11 years ago
Silent World — A discussion group A place to discuss all the unique aspects of Deaf culture as highlighted in the thriller Silent …more
1,694 members, last active 16 days ago
India Reads Where nonfiction about India is shared and discussed. All are welcome!
5 members, last active 14 years ago