History - Asia - India

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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, ...

Katherine Boo

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift...

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Published: Feb 2013

Why Growth Matters: How Economic Grow...

Jagdish Bhagwati

In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru's pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best ...

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Published: Apr 2014

The Great Partition: The Making of In...

Yasmin Khan

A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflec...

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Published: Aug 2017

Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Li...

Larry Berman

During the Vietnam War, Time reporter Pham Xuan An befriended everyone who was anyone in Saigon, including American journalists such as David Halberstam and Neil Sheehan, the CIA's William Colby, and the legendary Colonel Edward Lans...

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Published: May 2008

The Billionaire Raj: A Journey Throug...

James Crabtree

A colorful and revealing portrait of the rise of India’s new billionaire class in a radically unequal society India is the world’s largest democracy, with more than one billion people and an economy expanding faster than China’s...

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Published: Jul 2019

India Becoming: A Portrait of Life in...

Akash Kapur

A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A Newsweek "Must Read on Modern India""For people who savored Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers."-Evan Osnos, newy...

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Published: Mar 2013

Modern India: A Very Short Introducti...

Craig Jeffrey

India is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and c...

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Published: Nov 2017

Farthest Field: An Indian Story of th...

Raghu Karnad

"I have not lately read a finer book than this―on any subject at all. . . . A masterpiece." ―Simon Winchester, New StatesmanThe photographs of three young men had stood in his grandmother's house for as long as he could ...

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Published: Aug 2016
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