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The Weightless World

The Weightless World
  • Author(s): Anthony Trevelyan
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

We live in an age when things that would once have seemed miraculous are starting to seem mundane – even if they still, sometimes, bring with them profound implications… In The Weightless World, Anthony Trevelyan – a new, supremely...

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity

Becoming Indian: The Unfinished Revolution of Culture and Identity
  • Author(s): Pavan K Varma
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical, Nonfiction
  • Era(s): Various

Drawing upon modern Indian history, contemporary events and personal experience, he examines how and why the legacies of colonialism persist in our everyday life, affecting our language, politics, creative expression and self-image. Over six decades after Independence, English remains...

Below the Peacock Fan

Below the Peacock Fan
  • Author(s): Marian Fowler
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 19th Century

The lives of four Victorian gentlewomen are transformed when they leave the cozy confines of England for India to accompany their husbands or a brother who were appointed Viceroys of India, the crown jewel of the British Empire. Emily...

Beneath a Marble Sky

Beneath a Marble Sky
  • Author(s): John Shors
  • Location(s): Agra, Hindustan
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1630s

In 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, consumed by grief over the death of his empress, Mumtaz Mahal, ordered the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love. Against scenes of unimaginable wealth and...

Between the Assassinations

Between the Assassinations
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): West India
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Nestling on India’s southern coast lies the fictional town of Kittur, in West India. Ranging through the city’s streets and schoolyards, bedrooms and businesses, its inner workings and its outer limits, through the myriad and distinctive voices of its...

Creation

Creation
  • Author(s): Gore Vidal
  • Location(s): China, Greece, India
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 5th Century BC

Vidal’s historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides,...

Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure

Holy Cow! An Indian Adventure
  • Author(s): Sarah Macdonald
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Humour, Travelogue
  • Era(s): Modern

The Australian author is lured back to India and recounts her travels in this book, with humour and insight.

India: A Portrait

India: A Portrait
  • Author(s): Patrick French
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Historical
  • Era(s): 2000s and various

India takes the reader on an extraordinary journey, geographically from the remote Buddhist north to the tropical far south and socially from the new multi-millionaires to the many Indians still crushed by caste and poverty. This is the book...

India: The Road Ahead

India: The Road Ahead
  • Author(s): Mark Tully
  • Location(s): India
  • Genre(s): Nonfiction, Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

In this book Tully writes chapters about Indian society, historical issues, the caste system, and uses his own observations to draw conclusions about where India might be heading.

Last Man in Tower

Last Man in Tower
  • Author(s): Aravind Adiga
  • Location(s): Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

21st Century Mumbai is a city of new money and soaring real estate, and property kingpin Dharmen Shah has grand plans for its future. His offer to buy and tear down a weathered tower block, making way for luxury...

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