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The Tainted

The Tainted
  • Author(s): Cauvery Madhavan
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1922 to 1982

It’s spring 1920 in the small military town of Nandagiri in southeast India. Colonel Aylmer, commander of the Royal Irish Kildare Rangers, is in charge. A distance away, decently hidden from view, lies the native part of Nandagiri with...

These Foolish Things

These Foolish Things
  • Author(s): Deborah Moggach
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
  • Era(s): Modern

This is the same book as The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. A very funny book about a retirement home in Bangalore, peopled by quirky British pensioners.

Om Shanti, Babe

Om Shanti, Babe
  • Author(s): Helen Limon
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult
  • Era(s): Modern

Cassia can’t wait for her first visit to India – Bollywood glamour, new friends to admire her uber-cool street-dance moves…. But as she steps into real Indian life, NOTHING is as she expected… Cass is with her mum in...

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
  • Author(s): Deborah Moggach
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

In the original this is These Foolish Things (which also features on the TF site) A very funny book about a retirement home in Bangalore, peopled by quirky British pensioners.

The Gypsy Goddess

The Gypsy Goddess
  • Author(s): Meena Kandasamy
  • Location(s): Tamil Nadu
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1960s

Tamil Nadu, 1968. Village landlords rule over a feudal system that forces peasants to break their backs in the fields or suffer beatings as punishment. In the misery of their daily lives it is little wonder that the Communist...

A Daughter’s Courage

A Daughter’s Courage
  • Author(s): Renita D'Silva
  • Location(s): South India, Mumbai (Bombay)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1920s, Now

1929. When a passionate love affair threatens to leave Lucy in disgrace, she chooses a respectable marriage over a life of shame. With her husband, coffee-plantation-owner James, she travels to her new home in India, leaving her troubled past...

A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India

A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India
  • Author(s): Meera Sriram, Mariona Cabassa (Illustrator)
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Children
  • Era(s): N/A

In this #OwnVoices book inspired by the author’s hometown of Chennai, India, a girl explores the vibrant rainbow of delights in a southern Indian street market as she searches for a gift for her amma (mother). Endnotes explain all...

A Greater God

A Greater God
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras), Hyderabad, Telegana
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s India

Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns from the Straits Settlements to find his Madras Indian Police Service colleagues struggling with an outbreak of Hindu-Muslim tension. This particularly affects his assistant, Muhammad Habibullah, who feels that Muslim interests are being ignored....

A House for Happy Mothers

A House for Happy Mothers
  • Author(s): Amulya Malladi
  • Location(s): South India, Silicon Valley
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): early 2000s

In trendy Silicon Valley, Priya has everything she needs—a loving husband, a career, and a home—but the one thing she wants most is the child she’s unable to have. In a Southern Indian village, Asha doesn’t have much—raising two...

A Madras Miasma

A Madras Miasma
  • Author(s): Brian Stoddart
  • Location(s): Chennai (Madras)
  • Genre(s): Crime, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1920s

In 1920s Madras, Superintendent Chris Le Fanu of the Indian Police Service is a square peg in a round hole. His colleagues resist the rise of Indian nationalism and resent concessions made to India. But Le Fanu served with...

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