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British Raj Books
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The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.20 — 19,287 ratings — published 2019
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.68 — 86,847 ratings — published 1924
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,883 ratings — published 2016
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.20 — 8,688 ratings — published 2006
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,432 ratings — published 1901
The Far Pavilions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,317 ratings — published 1978
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,979 ratings — published 2007
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,723 ratings — published 1973
The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,241 ratings — published 1966
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,195 ratings — published 2002
A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,976 ratings — published 2016
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.81 — 810 ratings — published 1997
Zemindar (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,111 ratings — published 1981
Smoke and Ashes (Sam Wyndham, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,758 ratings — published 2018
Up the Country: Letters from India (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.59 — 95 ratings — published 1866
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,175 ratings — published 2013
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.19 — 978 ratings — published 2008
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 34,316 ratings — published 2018
Nightrunners of Bengal (The Story-Tellers)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 391 ratings — published 1951
The Raj Quartet 1: The Jewel in the Crown/The Day of the Scorpion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.39 — 314 ratings — published 1968
The Sandalwood Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,562 ratings — published 2011
Shadow of the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,729 ratings — published 1956
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,557 ratings — published 2004
The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,809 ratings — published 1968
The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was Named (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 577 ratings — published 2000
The Himalaya Club and Other Entertainments from the Raj (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.44 — 48 ratings — published 2015
Loot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,462 ratings — published 2023
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,030 ratings — published 2016
Bhowani Junction (Story-Tellers)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.89 — 478 ratings — published 1954
The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,763 ratings — published 2021
Death in the East (Sam Wyndham, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.26 — 4,726 ratings — published 2019
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.96 — 2,660 ratings — published 2012
A Necessary Evil (Sam Wyndham, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.06 — 7,004 ratings — published 2017
The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,785 ratings — published 2019
The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,238 ratings — published 2019
Enchanted Evening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.42 — 173 ratings — published 1999
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.01 — 306 ratings — published 2006
Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkhas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.32 — 423 ratings — published 1956
Great Mutiny: India 1857 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.99 — 369 ratings — published 1978
The First Anglo-Sikh War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.18 — 50 ratings — published 2010
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,632 ratings — published 2007
India: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.92 — 4,121 ratings — published 2000
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,351 ratings — published 2012
The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,552 ratings — published 1971
Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,306 ratings — published 1977
The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.24 — 400 ratings — published 1990
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,371 ratings — published 1975
The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.75 — 684 ratings — published 1991
The Deceivers (Film Tie-in)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.02 — 350 ratings — published 1952
East of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,630 ratings — published 2007
“The military is Pakistan’s only institution inherited from the British Raj that has proved resilient and effective. ‘As the history of law, democracy, administration and education in Pakistan demonstrates, other British institutions in what is now Pakistan (and to a lesser extent India as well) failed to take root, failed to work, or have been transformed in ways that their authors would scarcely have recognized.”
― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
― Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State
“... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?”
― Snowfed Waters
― Snowfed Waters
