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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.40 — 18,573 ratings — published 2007
A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,755 ratings — published 2016
Curfewed Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,571 ratings — published 2009
Where India Goes: Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.32 — 358 ratings — published 2017
Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.95 — 460 ratings — published 2015
Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The Exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,796 ratings — published 2013
Hello, Bastar - The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.79 — 2,377 ratings — published 2011
India Unbound: The Social and Economic Revolution from Independence to the Global Information Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.09 — 6,353 ratings — published 2000
Why the Poor Don't Kill Us (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,565 ratings — published
Why Loiter?: Women And Risk On Mumbai Streets (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.32 — 531 ratings — published 2011
Caste Matters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.09 — 519 ratings — published
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.96 — 344,865 ratings — published 1997
The End of Karma: Hope and Fury Among India's Young (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.97 — 434 ratings — published 2016
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.91 — 323 ratings — published 2017
This Unquiet Land (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.41 — 725 ratings — published 2015
Looking Away: Inequality, Prejudice and Indifference in New India (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.42 — 243 ratings — published 2015
An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,576 ratings — published 2013
10 Judgements That Changed India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,790 ratings — published 2013
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,391 ratings — published 2004
Non Stop India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.69 — 273 ratings — published 2011
India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,024 ratings — published 1997
In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,649 ratings — published 2006
The Last Liberal And Other Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.72 — 76 ratings — published 2003
Life over Two Beers and other stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.85 — 941 ratings — published 2018
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.57 — 40,804 ratings — published 2017
Muscular India: Masculinity, Mobility & the New Middle Class (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.59 — 29 ratings — published
Sepia Leaves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.15 — 136 ratings — published 2007
Tales from Modern India (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1966
From The King’s Table to Street Food : A Food History of Delhi (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.52 — 45 ratings — published
Leela's Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.51 — 429 ratings — published 2011
A Fine Balance (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.38 — 166,184 ratings — published 1995
Train to Pakistan (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.94 — 33,554 ratings — published 1956
The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,685 ratings — published 2007
The Bestseller she wrote (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.40 — 2,734 ratings — published 2015
Miss Laila, Armed and Dangerous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,105 ratings — published 2017
Masala Shakespeare: How a Firangi Writer Became Indian (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.74 — 27 ratings — published
The Heat and Dust Project: The Broke Couple's Guide to Bharat (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.35 — 353 ratings — published 2015
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धग [Dhag] (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.20 — 35 ratings — published
Jasoda (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.66 — 178 ratings — published
The Smoke Is Rising (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.31 — 174 ratings — published 2014
Mereng (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.13 — 91 ratings — published 2007
The Lily Network: A Kabir Joshi & Ananya Rao Mystery (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.90 — 153 ratings — published 2026
Tamarind Woman (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.58 — 1,340 ratings — published 1997
The Beast Within (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.94 — 43 ratings — published
Coffee Can Investing: The Low Risk Road to Stupendous Wealth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,162 ratings — published
Lunch with a Bigot: The Writer in the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.02 — 80 ratings — published 2015
Spring, Heat, Rains: A South Indian Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.09 — 45 ratings — published 2008
The Adivasi Will Not Dance (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,094 ratings — published 2015
On The Double (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 4.25 — 170 ratings — published 2015
From Chanakya to Modi: Evolution of India's Foreign Policy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as contemporary-india)
avg rating 3.76 — 113 ratings — published 2017