India
Ancient wisdom meets modern transformation in this collection exploring India's rich spiritual heritage, entrepreneurial spirit, and evolving identity through memoirs, philosophy, and cultural insights. These books capture the essence of a nation where age-old traditions dance with contemporary ambitions, featuring voices from spiritual leaders, business pioneers, and cultural luminaries who shape the world's largest democracy.
India Book Summaries
गोदान [Godan]
A peasant's dream of owning a cow becomes the instrument of his destruction in colonial India.
Classics
India
Literature
Literary Fiction
Novels
Immersive
गोदान [Godan]
A peasant's dream of owning a cow becomes the instrument of his destruction in colonial India.
Classics
India
Literature
Literary Fiction
Novels
The Arthashastra
Centuries before Machiavelli, a manual of power that never forgot the welfare of the people.
Philosophy
Politics
History
Classics
Economics
The Arthashastra
Centuries before Machiavelli, a manual of power that never forgot the welfare of the people.
Philosophy
Politics
History
Classics
Economics
Modi, Muslims and Media
No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.
Politics
Religion
India
History
Media
Immersive
Modi, Muslims and Media
No court convicted him. Every headline did. The evidence the Gujarat narrative left out.
Politics
Religion
India
History
Media
The Magic of the Lost Temple
After a storm, a city girl uncovers a thousand-year-old stepwell beneath her father's village.
Children
Middle Grade
Adventure
India
Mythology
Immersive
The Magic of the Lost Temple
After a storm, a city girl uncovers a thousand-year-old stepwell beneath her father's village.
Children
Middle Grade
Adventure
India
Mythology
The White Tiger
Writing to China's Premier, an Indian driver confesses to killing his boss for his freedom.
Literary Fiction
India
Contemporary
Adult
Novels
The White Tiger
Writing to China's Premier, an Indian driver confesses to killing his boss for his freedom.
Literary Fiction
India
Contemporary
Adult
Novels
Shantaram
An Australian fugitive vanishes into Bombay, finding home in a slum and family in the underworld.
India
Adventure
Crime
Literary Fiction
Historical Fiction
Shantaram
An Australian fugitive vanishes into Bombay, finding home in a slum and family in the underworld.
India
Adventure
Crime
Literary Fiction
Historical Fiction
The Hidden Hindu
A secret facility interrogates a monk whose memories begin in the Ramayana. His face hasn't aged.
Mythology
Fantasy
Thriller
Science Fiction
Hinduism
Immersive
The Hidden Hindu
A secret facility interrogates a monk whose memories begin in the Ramayana. His face hasn't aged.
Mythology
Fantasy
Thriller
Science Fiction
Hinduism
The Palace of Illusions
She was meant to marry five heroes and shatter a dynasty. No one asked what she wanted.
Mythology
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
India
Retellings
The Palace of Illusions
She was meant to marry five heroes and shatter a dynasty. No one asked what she wanted.
Mythology
Fantasy
Historical Fiction
India
Retellings
A Brief History of Modern India (2019-2020 Edition) by Spectrum Books
What every Indian civil service exam asks about modern history: 1498 to 1947 in one volume.
History
India
Colonialism
Politics
War
A Brief History of Modern India (2019-2020 Edition) by Spectrum Books
What every Indian civil service exam asks about modern history: 1498 to 1947 in one volume.
History
India
Colonialism
Politics
War
Death; An Inside Story
Death is a skill. The yogic way to die consciously, from final breath to liberation.
Spirituality
Death
Self Help
Philosophy
Hinduism
Death; An Inside Story
Death is a skill. The yogic way to die consciously, from final breath to liberation.
Spirituality
Death
Self Help
Philosophy
Hinduism
Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
100 Puranic tales span creation to dissolution, tracing a cosmos where devotion rewrites destiny.
Mythology
Hinduism
India
Religion
Spirituality
Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas
100 Puranic tales span creation to dissolution, tracing a cosmos where devotion rewrites destiny.
Mythology
Hinduism
India
Religion
Spirituality
Indian Polity
A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.
India
Politics
Law
Government
History
Indian Polity
A master key to India's Constitution: every provision, doctrine, and principle, in a single volume.
India
Politics
Law
Government
History
The Immortals of Meluha
When his throat turns blue, a tribal leader becomes the prophesied savior of an empire.
Fantasy
Mythology
Historical Fiction
Epic Fantasy
India
The Immortals of Meluha
When his throat turns blue, a tribal leader becomes the prophesied savior of an empire.
Fantasy
Mythology
Historical Fiction
Epic Fantasy
India
History of Modern India
From Mughal collapse to British conquest: how a trading company remade a subcontinent.
History
India
Politics
Colonialism
Economics
History of Modern India
From Mughal collapse to British conquest: how a trading company remade a subcontinent.
History
India
Politics
Colonialism
Economics
Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography
A shy lawyer experiments with diet, celibacy, and truth until he invents nonviolent force.
Autobiography
Memoir
Biography
Spirituality
Philosophy
Mahatma Gandhi Autobiography
A shy lawyer experiments with diet, celibacy, and truth until he invents nonviolent force.
Autobiography
Memoir
Biography
Spirituality
Philosophy
Lajja
A mosque falls in India. In Dhaka, a Hindu family loses a daughter, then its country.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Politics
Feminism
Religion
Immersive
Lajja
A mosque falls in India. In Dhaka, a Hindu family loses a daughter, then its country.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Politics
Feminism
Religion
Autobiography of a Yogi
Miracles, they said, were science. A young yogi's record of the Indian saints who proved it.
Spirituality
Autobiography
Memoir
Religion
Philosophy
Autobiography of a Yogi
Miracles, they said, were science. A young yogi's record of the Indian saints who proved it.
Spirituality
Autobiography
Memoir
Religion
Philosophy
The Polyester Prince
A village trader exploited India's regulatory cracks to build the world's largest shareholder base.
Biography
Business
India
History
Politics
The Polyester Prince
A village trader exploited India's regulatory cracks to build the world's largest shareholder base.
Biography
Business
India
History
Politics
The Covenant of Water
In 1900 Kerala, a twelve-year-old bride discovers her new family is marked by drownings.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
India
Historical
Family
The Covenant of Water
In 1900 Kerala, a twelve-year-old bride discovers her new family is marked by drownings.
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
India
Historical
Family
Q & A
After winning a fortune on a quiz show, a penniless waiter must defend his impossible knowledge.
India
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Mystery
Thriller
Q & A
After winning a fortune on a quiz show, a penniless waiter must defend his impossible knowledge.
India
Contemporary
Literary Fiction
Mystery
Thriller
The Blue Umbrella
A Himalayan girl's blue umbrella enchants her village until a shopkeeper's longing turns to theft.
Children
India
Middle Grade
Short Stories
Classics
The Blue Umbrella
A Himalayan girl's blue umbrella enchants her village until a shopkeeper's longing turns to theft.
Children
India
Middle Grade
Short Stories
Classics
Train to Pakistan
A corpse-filled train turns a peaceful Indian village's Sikh and Muslim neighbors into enemies.
Historical Fiction
Classics
India
Literary Fiction
War
Train to Pakistan
A corpse-filled train turns a peaceful Indian village's Sikh and Muslim neighbors into enemies.
Historical Fiction
Classics
India
Literary Fiction
War
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
A debt between grandfathers becomes a marriage plot pulling two strangers toward each other.
Literary Fiction
India
Romance
Magical Realism
Historical Fiction
Immersive
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny
A debt between grandfathers becomes a marriage plot pulling two strangers toward each other.
Literary Fiction
India
Romance
Magical Realism
Historical Fiction
The Discovery of India
From a British prison, one leader retraces five millennia of Indian civilization: who are we?
History
India
Politics
Philosophy
Culture
The Discovery of India
From a British prison, one leader retraces five millennia of Indian civilization: who are we?
History
India
Politics
Philosophy
Culture
Revolution 2020
He builds a college on bribes after failing. The woman he loves and his best friend expose him.
Romance
Young Adult
India
Contemporary Romance
New Adult
Revolution 2020
He builds a college on bribes after failing. The woman he loves and his best friend expose him.
Romance
Young Adult
India
Contemporary Romance
New Adult
India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world
India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.
Politics
History
India
Asia
Political
India Way,The - Strategies for an uncertain world
India traded non-alignment for a strategy of engaging all sides at once. The architect explains why.
Politics
History
India
Asia
Political
A Guardian and a Thief
Stolen passports trap a mother in a climate-ravaged Kolkata with a thief who knows her secret.
Literary Fiction
Dystopian
Science Fiction
India
Survival
Immersive
A Guardian and a Thief
Stolen passports trap a mother in a climate-ravaged Kolkata with a thief who knows her secret.
Literary Fiction
Dystopian
Science Fiction
India
Survival
Too Good To Be True
A guarded bookseller meets a mysterious CEO whose secrets test her fragile trust.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
India
Adult
New Adult
Too Good To Be True
A guarded bookseller meets a mysterious CEO whose secrets test her fragile trust.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
India
Adult
New Adult
Wise and Otherwise
A coolie's honest son and a tribal chief teach the real India about integrity and dignity.
Short Stories
India
Philosophy
Spirituality
Memoir
Wise and Otherwise
A coolie's honest son and a tribal chief teach the real India about integrity and dignity.
Short Stories
India
Philosophy
Spirituality
Memoir
The Home and the World
A colonial Bengali wife falls for a nationalist leader; her principled husband refuses to stop her.
Classics
India
Historical Fiction
Literature
Asia
The Home and the World
A colonial Bengali wife falls for a nationalist leader; her principled husband refuses to stop her.
Classics
India
Historical Fiction
Literature
Asia
The Hidden Hindu 2
An immortal with no memory races a cursed enemy across India for words that could end the world.
Mythology
Fantasy
Thriller
India
Historical Fiction
The Hidden Hindu 2
An immortal with no memory races a cursed enemy across India for words that could end the world.
Mythology
Fantasy
Thriller
India
Historical Fiction
Yayati
Cursed into old age, a king takes his son's youth, only to discover that desire outlives the body.
Mythology
Classics
India
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Yayati
Cursed into old age, a king takes his son's youth, only to discover that desire outlives the body.
Mythology
Classics
India
Historical Fiction
Literary Fiction
Luv (Un)Arranged
An arranged meeting turns into a secret romance, but a hidden truth tests their fragile trust.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
India
Marriage
Adult
Luv (Un)Arranged
An arranged meeting turns into a secret romance, but a hidden truth tests their fragile trust.
Romance
Contemporary Romance
India
Marriage
Adult
Five Point Someone
Three IIT freshmen with rock-bottom grades steal an exam paper, risking expulsion and their bond.
Contemporary
Young Adult
India
College
Romance
Five Point Someone
Three IIT freshmen with rock-bottom grades steal an exam paper, risking expulsion and their bond.
Contemporary
Young Adult
India
College
Romance
