Gurman's votes on the list 70 Books that define Independent India

Listopia > Gurman's votes on the list 70 Books that define Independent India (64 Books)

1	Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History by Kumkum Sangari (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian by Nirad C. Chaudhuri 3.84 avg rating — 585 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Politics in India by Rajni Kothari 3.85 avg rating — 65 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	Don't Lose Your Mind, Lose Your Weight by Rujuta Diwekar 4.17 avg rating — 6,508 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani 3.85 avg rating — 1,109 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age by Gurcharan Das 4.09 avg rating — 6,332 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha 4.39 avg rating — 18,387 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Caste, Class and Power: Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village by André Béteille 3.69 avg rating — 29 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Remembered Village (Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, UC Berkeley) (Volume 26) by M.N. Srinivas 3.95 avg rating — 107 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee 4.34 avg rating — 116,625 ratings Gurman added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Everybody Loves a Good Drought by Palagummi Sainath 4.34 avg rating — 3,319 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar 4.29 avg rating — 10,768 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707 (Third Edition) (Oxford India Perennials Series) by Irfan Habib 3.84 avg rating — 131 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande 4.49 avg rating — 222,780 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	The History and Culture of the Indian People (Volume 2) by R.C. Majumdar (Editor) 4.68 avg rating — 40 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims by A.L. Basham 4.11 avg rating — 1,855 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Flaming Feet and Other Essays: The Dalit Movement in India by D.R. Nagaraj 4.46 avg rating — 50 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	India: A Million Mutinies Now by V.S. Naipaul 3.95 avg rating — 2,185 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	The Spirit of Indian Painting: Close Encounters with 100 Great Works 1100-1900 by B.N. Goswamy 4.56 avg rating — 59 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation by Patrick Olivelle 4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300 by Romila Thapar 3.63 avg rating — 2,054 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Tamil: A Biography by David Dean Shulman 3.71 avg rating — 139 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	An Introduction to the Study of Indian History by Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi 4.13 avg rating — 55 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	India: planning for industrialization: Industrialization and trade policies since 1951 by Jagdish N. Bhagwati it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation by Amartya Sen 4.19 avg rating — 331 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	The Guide by R.K. Narayan 3.93 avg rating — 10,954 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	In Custody by Anita Desai 3.37 avg rating — 2,168 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie 3.97 avg rating — 134,924 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga 3.77 avg rating — 205,011 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author) 3.96 avg rating — 333,637 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai 3.46 avg rating — 57,051 ratings Gurman added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1) by Vikram Seth 4.11 avg rating — 50,475 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra 3.93 avg rating — 9,074 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Five Point Someone: What Not to Do at IIT by Chetan Bhagat 3.43 avg rating — 93,253 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	I Too Had a Love Story by Ravinder Singh 3.64 avg rating — 43,631 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Room on the Roof by Ruskin Bond 4.15 avg rating — 10,444 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri 4.14 avg rating — 97,479 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry 4.38 avg rating — 162,324 ratings Gurman rated it 5 stars See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	The Country Without a Post Office by Agha Shahid Ali 4.27 avg rating — 1,197 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Socialite Evenings by Shobhaa Dé 2.64 avg rating — 372 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	My India by Jim Corbett 4.35 avg rating — 1,206 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar 4.19 avg rating — 1,839 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee 3.78 avg rating — 6,241 ratings Gurman added it to to-read See Review	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Jejuri (New York Review Books Classics) by Arun Kolatkar 4.22 avg rating — 484 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	Train to Pakistan by Khushwant Singh 3.94 avg rating — 32,592 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Days of Longing by Nirmal Verma 4.24 avg rating — 368 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil by A.K. Ramanujan (Translator) 4.39 avg rating — 90 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	All About H. Hatterr by G.V. Desani 3.86 avg rating — 473 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	My Story by Kamala Suraiyya Das 3.79 avg rating — 7,365 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2) by J.G. Farrell 3.93 avg rating — 8,729 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi 3.75 avg rating — 21,460 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Gitagovinda of Jayadeva: Love Song of the Dark Lord by Jayadeva Goswami 4.03 avg rating — 375 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa (Harvard Oriental Series) by D. D. Kosambi (Editor) 4.24 avg rating — 29 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Our Films, Their Films by Satyajit Ray 4.25 avg rating — 599 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 by William Dalrymple 4.20 avg rating — 8,699 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Suketu Mehta 3.95 avg rating — 11,335 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	In an Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh 3.86 avg rating — 3,596 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	A Taste of India by Madhur Jaffrey 4.33 avg rating — 275 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	INDIAN FOOD by K.T. Achaya really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 77 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India by Ranajit Guha 4.11 avg rating — 104 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992 by Shahid Amin 3.73 avg rating — 91 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (v. 2) by Sálim Ali really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 12 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Jungle and Backyard by M. Krishnan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	My Son's Father by Dom Moraes 3.95 avg rating — 57 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars