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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 — 18,632 ratings — published 2019
A Passage to India (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.67 — 85,872 ratings — published 1924
An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.17 — 12,701 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 — 8,600 ratings — published 2006
Kim (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.70 — 40,035 ratings — published 1901
The Far Pavilions (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,106 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 — 4,921 ratings — published 2007
The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 8,571 ratings — published 1973
The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,187 ratings — published 1966
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,137 ratings — published 2002
Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.81 — 798 ratings — published 1997
Zemindar (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,094 ratings — published 1981
Loot (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,138 ratings — published 2023
Smoke and Ashes (Sam Wyndham, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,580 ratings — published 2018
Up the Country: Letters from India (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.61 — 92 ratings — published 1866
Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.35 — 5,059 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 — 972 ratings — published 2008
The Widows of Malabar Hill (Perveen Mistry, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 33,446 ratings — published 2018
A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.92 — 13,341 ratings — published 2016
Nightrunners of Bengal (The Story-Tellers)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.92 — 381 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 4.40 — 313 ratings — published 1968
The Sandalwood Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,550 ratings — published 2011
Shadow of the Moon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.24 — 4,687 ratings — published 1956
Old Filth (Old Filth, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.95 — 20,187 ratings — published 2004
The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,776 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 — 573 ratings — published 2000
The Himalaya Club and Other Entertainments from the Raj (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.45 — 47 ratings — published 2015
Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,831 ratings — published 2016
Bhowani Junction (Story-Tellers)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.88 — 469 ratings — published 1954
The Bombay Prince (Perveen Mistry, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.96 — 9,519 ratings — published 2021
Death in the East (Sam Wyndham, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,516 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 — 2,619 ratings — published 2012
A Necessary Evil (Sam Wyndham, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.06 — 6,765 ratings — published 2017
The Satapur Moonstone (Perveen Mistry, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.97 — 12,509 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 4.25 — 2,154 ratings — published 2019
Enchanted Evening (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.42 — 168 ratings — published 1999
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.00 — 306 ratings — published 2006
Great Mutiny: India 1857 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.99 — 365 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 — 1,608 ratings — published 2007
India: A History (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,057 ratings — published 2000
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,339 ratings — published 2012
The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,525 ratings — published 1971
Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,230 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 4.23 — 393 ratings — published 1990
Freedom At Midnight (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.33 — 11,223 ratings — published 1975
The Honourable Company: a History of the English East India Company (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.76 — 678 ratings — published 1991
The Deceivers (Film Tie-in)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.01 — 340 ratings — published 1952
East of the Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 3.71 — 8,551 ratings — published 2007
Flood of Fire (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as british-raj)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,752 ratings — published 2015
“... how could Britain operate in India for 300 years and take so little back from it in terms of understanding?”
― Snowfed Waters
― Snowfed Waters
“Praise to our Indian brothers, and the dark face have his due!
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.”
― Tennyson: Poems
Thanks to the kindly dark faces who fought with us, faithful and few,
Fought with the bravest among us, and drove them, and smote them, and slew.
That ever upon the topment roof our banner in India blew.”
― Tennyson: Poems
