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Brick Lane?

I hope this list does not become polluted by authors behaving badly. It would be a great reference point from which to select good reads about India. **crosses fingers**

wondering if that last comment was aimed at authors who add their own books. In which case I've removed "Memories with Maya" which is a hard science fiction novel with over 70% of the story set in Bombay - India.
** edit ** I cant seem to remove it, but I've un-voted it.

Bettie wrote: "Brick Lane?"

Should be deleted IMHO. Not set in India. (Besides, deals chiefly with the Bangladeshi community, and as someone pointed out in the comments to another "India" list, Bangladesh is a separate country ... even though one also on the Indian subcontinent!)

ETA: Now is deleted.

Clyde wrote: "wondering if that last comment was aimed at authors who add their own books. In which case I've removed "Memories with Maya" which is a hard science fiction novel with over 70% of the story set in Bombay - India.
** edit ** I cant seem to remove it, but I've un-voted it."

Looks like you managed to remove it after all (sometimes it takes a while for an "unvote" to stick). Thanks for being a gentleman! Not all authors are so understanding, alas.

That said, I think Wanda's comment was chiefly aimed at those authors who spam entire pages' worth of listopia lists with their books, often regardless of (or even in direct contradiction to) a list's topic ... and then get a bunch of friends or flat-out sock puppet accounts to vote those books to the top of those lists. (AND get all defensive and worked-up about it if called on their misbehavior.) You don't seem to be doing that.

** Hint: Your votes will stand out even less as "suspicious" (read: self-promotional spam) to Goodreads librarians if you find other books to vote for/add to the lists you're voting on as well. Since you only voted on lists where you seem to be familiar with the topic, I don't think that should be too difficult? -- The key thing you don't want to engage in, though, is spam and sock puppetry.

Yours is not a genre I read, but I do wish you best of luck with your books!

Wanda wrote: "I hope this list does not become polluted by authors behaving badly. It would be a great reference point from which to select good reads about India. **crosses fingers**"

Agreed!

Thanks Themis-Athena.
If anyone else does find that MwM qualifies as a book set in India, do add :)
Kind Regards,

Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost" is set in Sri Lanka.

Stop33 wrote: "Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost" is set in Sri Lanka."

True. Removed.

One of the greatest books ever, The Moonstone, is in this list. I have voted for it. It is mainly set in England though and perhaps it does not fit here.

I would like to add this book, but it's not yet on GR (if a Librarian chances upon this and is willing to add it, I would be grateful!):

The Bonded Three
Bessie Marchant
"Triplets Robert, Rosamund, and Ailsa Craig get caught up in a native uprising in India."
London, 1899.
OCLC Number: 1181157686


EDIT: more:

Chupsie; the Story of a Baby
Bessie Marchant
London, 1904.
"Mopsie and Popsie Stewart live with their mother and father in India. They find a baby in their garden, and have many adventures trying to return it to its parents."
OCLC Number: 1181259059

In the Toils of the Tribesman: A Story of the Indian Frontier
Bessie Marchant
"Coralie lives in a remote part of India with her missionary father and her mother and sister. Knowledge of arms smuggling comes to Coralie and her father and he determines to risk his life to let the British authorities know about it. Coralie has to maintain and save her family in his absence."
London : Gall and Inglis, [1906?]
OCLC: 15253141
346pp

Haroun and the Sea of Stories is not set in India.
Burmese Days is set in Burma (Myanmar). Burma is not in India.
The Mistress of Spices is set in the USA