Comprehensive Booklist compiled by Avnish K. Singh for any and everyone who wishes to study and learn Indian Political Discourse.

Note:

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Capitalism vs Communism

1. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
2. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
3. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
4. Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey , Rajendra Sisodia
5. The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich von Hayek
6. Das Capital by Karl Marx
7. Eat the Rich by P J O’Rourke
8. Free To Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman
9. Friedman on India by Centre for Civil Society
10. Globalisation and its discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
11. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
12. The Joke by Milan Kundera
13. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek
14. Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
15. Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

Constitution of India

16. The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis by Arun K. Thiruvengadam
17. India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla
18. The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation by Granville Austin
19. Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution by Gautam Bhatia
20. The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution by Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
21. A People’s Constitution by Rohit De
22. Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India by Abhinav Chandrachud
23. Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India by Tripurdaman Singh
24. Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience by Granville Austin
25. Worshipping False Gods by Arun Shourie

Secularism- India and the West

26. 70 Years of Indian Secularism by Sandeep Balakrishna
27. European Secularism: Mother of Misconceptions by Sriram Sathe
28. India’s Secularism: New Name for National Subversion, tr. Yashpal Sharma
29. The Problem with Secularism by Koenraad Elst
30. PseudoSecularism by Sita Ram Goel
31. Republic of Religion: The Rise and Fall of Colonial Secularism in India by Abhinav Chandrachud
32. Secular Agenda: to Save Our Country, to Weld It by Arun Shourie

Dalits, Caste Politics, B R Ambedkar and Buddhism

33. Caste in Indian Politics by Rajni Khothari
34. Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde
35. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making by Nicholas B. Dirk
36. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
37. The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi by Arundhati Roy
38. Dr. Ambedkar and Democracy- An Anthology by Christophe Jaffrelot and Narender Kumar
39. Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability Book by Christophe Jaffrelot
40. Pakistan or the Partition of India by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
41. The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde
42. What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
43. The Cult of Emptiness: The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy by Urs App
44. Unforgettable Dalit Voice: Life, Writings & Speeches of M. C. Rajah by Swaraj Basu
45. Complete works of E V Ramasamy Naicker Periyar
46. Why I Am Not a Hindu: A Sudra critique of Hindutva philosophy, culture and political economy by Kancha Illiah Shepherd
47. Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution by Kancha Illiah Shepherd
48. Samskara- A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Ananthamurthy (Translated from the Kannada by A. K. Ramanujan)

Gems of V S Naipaul

49. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V S Naipaul
50. An Area of Darkness by V S Naipaul
51. Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul
52. India: A million mutinies now by V S Naipaul
53. India: A wounded civilisation by V S Naipaul

History of India

History Writing

54. The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty
55. Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud by Arun Shourie
56. History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past by T.C.A. Raghavan
57. Invading the Sacred by Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas and Aditi Banerjee
58. Negationism in India, Concealing the Record of Islam by Koenraad Elst
59. Stalinist ‘Historians’ Spread the Big Lie by Sita Ram Goel
60. What is History? by EH Carr

Beyond confines of time

61. The Hindus: An Alternate History by Wendy Doniger
62. The History and Culture of Indian people 11 volumes by R.C.Majumdar
63. The History of India Told by Its Own Historians, 8 vols by Sir H.M. Elliot and John Dowson
64. The Incredible History of India’s Geography by Sanjeev Sanyal and Sowmya Rajendran
65. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe
66. The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline by Sanjeev Sanyal
67. Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography by Sanjeev Sanyal
68. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
69. The Rediscovery of India by Meghnad Desai and Baron Desai
70. Relevance of Kautilya For Today by K.S. Narayanacharya

Ancient Era

71. Ancient India by R.C.Majumdar
72. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identity by Amartya Sen
73. Arthashastra by Kautilya
74. The Educational Heritage Of Ancient India by Sahana Singh
75. A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century by Upinder Singh
76. India in Greece or, Truth in Mythology by E. Pococke
77. India’s Ancient Past by R S Sharma
78. India as known to Panini by V.S. Agarwala
79. Political History of Ancient India, From the Accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta Dynasty by Hemchandra Raychaudhuri

Medieval Era

Overview

80. Aavarna by S L Bhyrappa (translation to English from Kannada by Sandeep Balakrishna)
81. Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India Volume I to III by J L Mehta
82. The New Cambridge History of India: The Mughal Empire by John F Richards
83. A History of Medieval India by Satish Chandra
84. India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard M. Eaton
85. Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Iconoclasm, Hindu Temples and Hindu Resistance

86. Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples: Episodes from Indian History by Meenakshi Jain
87. Heroic Hindu Resistance to Muslim Invaders (AD 636–1206) by Sita Ram Goel
88. Hindu Temples—What Happened to Them, vol. 1, A Preliminary Survey by Sita Ram Goel
89. Hindu Temples – What Happened to Them vol. 2, A Preliminary Survey by Sita Ram Goel, Arun Shourie, Harsh Narain, Jay Dubashi and Ram Swarup
90. Saffron Swords: Centuries of Indic Resistance to Invaders by Manoshi Sinha Rawal

Chhatrapati and Raya

91. Challenging Destiny: A Biography of Chhatrapati Shivaji by Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
92. Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji by Manu S. Pillai
93. Shivaji and his Times by Jadunath Sircar
94. Shivaji: The Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai and Vikrant Pande
95. Who is Shivaji? By Govind Pansare
96. A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar by Robert Sewell
97. Raya: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara by Srinivas Reddy

Pre-Mughal Medieval Era

98. Alberuni’s India: An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India About A. D.1030 by Dr Edward C. Sachau
99.  (To be added)

Mughals

100. Baburnama: A Memoir by Annette Susannah Beveridge
101. The History of Humayun (Humayun Nama) by Gul Badan Begum (tr. Annette S. Beveridge)
102. The A-IN-I-Akbari, tr. H. Blochmann, vols I, II & III
103. The Akbar Nama, tr. H. Beveridge, vols I & II
104. The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, by Wheeler Thackston
105. The Tuzuk-I-Jahangiri: The Memoirs of Jahangir, 2 vols by Alexander Rogers, and Henry Beveridge
106. The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi
107. Aurangzib and the Decay of Mughal Empire by Stanley Lane-Poole
108. Aurangzeb- The Man and The Myth by Audrey Truschke
109. History of Aurangzib by Sir Jadunath Sircar
110. Maasir-I-Alamgiri by Saqi Must’ad Khan (translated to English by Jadunath Sarkar)

Pre-independence History

Company and Crown Rule

111. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
112. Besieged: Voices From Delhi-1857 by Mahmood Farooqui
113. Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
114. Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore by Manu S. Pillai
115. Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis

Tipu Sultan- Tyrant vs Just

116. Tipu Sultan: The Tyrant of Mysore by Sandeep Balakrishna
117. Tipu as He Really Was by Gajanan Bhaskar Mehendale
118. Tiger : The Life Of Tipu Sultan by Kate Brittlebank
119. The Sword of Tipu Sultan by Bhagwan Gidwani

Indian National Movement

120. The Case of India by Will Durant
121. India from Curzon to Nehru and After by Durga Das
122. Poverty and un-British rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji
123. Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel
124. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 by Vikram Sampath
125. Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Life and Times by Tathagata Roy
126. Complete works of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
127. The Man Who Saved India by Hindol Sengupta
128. Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
129. Nationalism and Distortions in Indian History by Navaratna S Rajaram
130. On Nationalism by Romila Thapar and others
131. Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings by S. Irfan Habib

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

132. My Experiments with Truth by M K Gandhi
133. Hind Swaraj by M K Gandhi
134. Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
135. Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
136. Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
137. Gandhi’s Hinduism the Struggle Against Jinnah’s Islam by M J Akbar
138. Why I killed Gandhi by Nathuram Godse

Partition and Making of the New Republic

139. How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
140. India Wins Freedom by Maulana Azad
141. Integration of the Indian States by V P Menon
142. Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
143. The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila
144. Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh
145. The Transfer of Power in India by V. P. Menon
146. V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India by Narayani Basu

Post-Independence: Politics and History

Leaders of the Era

147. Nehru: The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor
148. Reminiscences of the Nehru Age by M. O. Mathai
149. Nehru’s 97 Major Blunders by Rajnikant Puranik
150. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
151. Intertwined Lives- P N Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh
152. JP Movement, Emergency and India’s Second Freedom by M G Devasahayam
153. Against the Tide by Minoo Masani
154. Half – Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India by Vinay Sitapati
155. The Insider by P V Narasimha Rao
156. The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by Pranab Mukherjee
157. The Turbulent Years: 1980 – 1996 by Pranab Mukherjee
158. The Coalition Years: 1996 to 2012 by Pranab Mukherjee
159. The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru
160. The Empress: The Dramatic Life of A Powerful and Enigmatic Leader by Kalyani Shankar
161. Gopalganj to Raisina: My Political Journey by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nalin Verma
162. Narendra Modi: A Political Biography by Andy Marino
163. The Red Sari by Javier Moor
164. The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation by Girish Kuber and Vikrant Pande (translator)

Politics of the Era

165. India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
166. Genesis and Growth of Nehruism, vol. 1 by Sita Ram Goel
167. The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
168. A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State by Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri
169. Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India- Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma
170. The Only Fatherland: Communists, Quit India and the Soviet Union by Arun Shourie
171. Patriots and Partisans by Ramachandra Guha
172. Perversion of India’s Political Parlance by Sita Ram Goel
173. Politics in India by Rajni Kothari
174. Rethinking Democracy by Khothri Rajni
175. Revenge and Reconciliation by Raj Mohan Gandhi
176. Same-Sex Love in India by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
177. The Scheduled Tribes of India by G S Ghurye
178. The Verdict by Prannoy Roy and Dorab R. Sopariwala
179. Lajja by Tasleema Nasreen
180. The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World Christopher Andrew

India’s Economic History and Policy Approach

181. 70 Policies that Built India: 1947 to 2017, Independence to $2.5 Trillion by Gautam Chikermane
182. Anticipating India: The Best of National Interest by Shekhar Gupta
183. Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed by Shagun Mehrotra and Sudhir Kumar
184. B R Shenoy: Economic Prophecies (Centre for Civil Society)
185. B R Shenoy: Theoretical Visions (Centre for Civil Society)
186. Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years by Montek Singh Ahluwalia
187. The Cambridge Economic History of India Volume 1, c.1200-c.1750 Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri, Irfan Habib
188. The Cambridge Economic History of India Volume 2, c.1757–c.1970 Edited by Dharma Kumar, Meghnad Desai
189. The Economic History of India by Romesh Chunder Dutt
190. Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts by P Sainath
191. India: Planning for Industrialization and Trade Policies Since 1951 by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Padma Desai
192. India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
193. India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory by Arvind Panagariya
194. Reason and Reform: How Policy Reforms Have Shaped India by Bibek Debroy and Diwakar Jhurani
195. The Scam: Who Won, who Lost, who Got Away by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal
196. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy by Vijay Kelkar
197. Transforming India, Big ideas for a developing Nation by Atanu Dey
198. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen

Hindutva front: BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its leaders

199. 100 Years of RSS – P P Bajpai
200. Builders of Modern India: Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar by Rakesh Sinha
201. Bunch Of Thoughts by M. S. Golwalkar
202. Democracy and Elections- A Hindutva Story by Badri Narayan
203. Hindu Nationalism: A Reader by Christophe Jaffrelot
204. Hindu Terror: Insider Account of Ministry of Home Affairs 2006-2010 by R. V. S. Mani
205. Let Me Say it Now by Rakesh Maria
206. The Indian Conservative: A History of Indian Right-Wing Thought by Jaithirth Rao
207. Integral Humanism: An Analysis of Some Basic Elements by Deendayal Upadhyaya
208. Jugalbandi- The BJP before Modi by Vinay Sitapati
209. Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India by J. Christophe and T. Blom
210. RSS 360: Demystifying Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by Ratan Sharda
211. The RSS- A View to the Inside by Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Dalme
212. Saffron Versus Green: Communal Politics in the Central– Provinces and Berar, 1919-1947 by Kanchanmoy Mojumdar
213. Secrets of RSS: Demystifying the Sangh by Ratan Sharda
214. Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India by Shakti Sinha
215. We or Our Nationhood defined – M. S. Golwalkar

Hindutva: Literature and Politics

216. Academic Hinduphobia by Rajiv Malhotra
217. Akhand Hindustan by K. M. Munshi
218. Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right Swapan Dasgupta
219. Battleground India, Prognosis of Hindu-Muslim Exclusivism by Maloy Dhar
220. The Battle for Sanskrit by Rajiv Malhotra
221. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
222. Decolonising the Hindu Mind by Koenraad Elst
223. Defence of Hindu Society by Sita Ram Goel
224. The English Medium Myth: Dismantling Barriers to India’s Growth by Sankrant Sanu
225. Essentials of Hindutva by Veer Savarkar
226. Hindus and Hinduism: Manipulation of Meanings by Sita Ram Goel
227. Hindu Society Under Siege by Sita Ram Goel
228. How I Became A Hindu (Reprinted with a postscript) by Sita Ram Goel
229. The Saffron Swastika (The Notion of Hindu Fascism) vol. 1 & II by Koenraad Elst

Hinduism: Historical Texts, Religious Texts and Philosophical Texts

230. Atharvaveda Hindi Translation by Shri Damodar Satwalekar
231. Bengali Mahabharat by Kashiram Dasi Mahabharata
232. The Bhagavada Geeta, English translation by Swami Prabhupada and Swami Chidbhavananda
233. Brahma Sutra Bhasya by Sankaracarya translated by Swami Gambhirananda
234. Encyclopedia of Hinduism 11 volumes
235. The Hindu Way of Life: S Radhakrishnan
236. A History of the Dharmashastra by P V Kane
237. History of Indian Philosophy by Surendranath Dasgupta
238. Katha Upanishad (Conversation between Nachiketa, a young boy with a philosophical bent of mind and Yamaraja, the God of Dharma and Death on the issue of life and death)
239. Mahabharata Sanskrit Text with Hindi translation by Gita Press Gorakhpur
240. Manusmriti
241. Mandukya Upanishad With Gaudapada’s Karika and Shankara’s Commentary by Swami Nikhilananda
242. The Principal Upanishads by S. Radhakrishnan
243. Purāṇic Encyclopaedia by Vettam Mani
244. Rigveda 2 volumes Hindi translation by Shri Damodar Satwalekar
245. The Rigveda A Historical Analysis by Shrikant Talageri
246. Samkhya Karika of Isvara Krsna with the Tattva Kaumudi by Vacaspati Mishra translated by Swami Virupakshananada
247. Samkhya Karika of Isvara Krsna (Text-Translation and Commentary- Yuktidipika) Translated by S.S. Suryanarayana Shastri. Edited by Dr. N. C. Panda
248. Samaveda Hindi translation by Swami Bramhamuni Parivrajak
249. Uniqueness of Carvaka Philosophy in traditional Indian thought by Bhupender Heera
250. Who is a Hindu? by Koenraad Elst
251. Yajurveda Hindi Translation by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati
252. Yagnavalkya Smriti

Indian Classics

253. Meghnad Badh Kavya by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
254. Menu Charitamu by Peddanna (Telugu classic)
255. Panchatantra by Pandit Vishnu Sharma
256. Raag Darbari by Sri Lal Shukla
257. Tattvopaplavasimha of Jayarasibhatta, English translation by V.N.Jha
258. Thirukkural Translations of GU Pope and Rajaji

Islam, Islamism and Kafirs

259. The Holy Quran English Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, Mohammad Habib Shakir and Sahih International.
260. The Calcutta Quran Petition by Sita Ram Goel
261. The Complete Infidels’ Guide to the Koran by Robert B. Spencer
262. The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS by Robert Spencer
263. Jizyah and the Spread of Islam by Harsh Narain
264. The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, ed. Andrew Bostom
265. The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India by K S Lal
266. Muslim Separatism: Causes and Consequences by Sita Ram Goel
267. Muslim Slave System in Medieval India by K S Lal
268. Rangeela Rasool by Pandit M. A. Chamupati
269. The Satanic Verses by by Salman Rushdie
270. Understanding Islam through the Hadis by Ram Swarup
271. The World of Fatwas or Shariah in Action by Arun Shourie

Mother Teresa and Misdeeds of Missionaries

272. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
273. Mother Teresa: The Untold Story by Aroup Chatterjee
274. Holy Bible English Translation (King James Version and American Standard Version)
275. 2000 years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haugt
276. Amen: The Autobiography of a Nun by Sister Jesme
277. Christian Missions and Hindu Resistance by Sita Ram Goel
278. Crusade in India: Christianity’s Struggle for Survival in the Post-colonial world by David Frawley, S.V. Seshagiri Rao and Navaratna S. Rajaram
279. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
280. The Goa Inquisition: The Terrible Tribunal for the East by Anant Kakba Priolkar
281. Harvesting Our Souls by Arun Shourie
282. History of Hindu Christian Encounters (AD 304 to 1996) by Sita Ram Goel
283. Malabar and The Portuguese by K.M. Panikkar
284. Missionaries in India by Arun Shourie
285. Arun Shourie and his Christian Critic by Fr. Augustine Kanjamala
286. The Myth of Saint Thomas and The Mylapore Shiva Temple by Ishwar Sharan
287. Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities by Niyogi Committee
288. Sati, Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain
289. Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, his Tribals and India by Ramachandra Guha

World History and History of Other Parts of the World

Snapshots

290. The Geography of Thought, How Asians and Westerners think differently and Why by Richard E Nisbett
291. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
292. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yual Noah Harari
293. The Storm of War: A New History of The Second World War by Andrew Roberts
294. The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
295. War: How Conflict Shaped Us By Margaret MacMillan
296. The World Economy by Angus Maddison two volumes
297. Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson

Reads on United States

298. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
299. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
300. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
301. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
302. Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
303. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
304. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
305. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
306. A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
307. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
308. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
309. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
310. Witness by Whittaker Chambers

United Kingdom

311. The Constitutional History of England by F.W. Maitland
312. Churchill: The Power of Words by Sir Winston Churchill and Martin Gilbert
313. Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
314. The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
315. Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng

Other parts of the World

316. Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
317. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
318. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
319. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
320. Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
321. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
322. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
323. Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel
324. Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
325. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
326. Mao Zedong by Jonathan Clements
327. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
328. Tibet: The Last Months of a Free Nation: India Tibet Relations (1947-1962): Part 1 by Claude Arpi
329. Will Tibet Ever Find Her Soul Again?: India Tibet Relations 1947-1962 – Part 2 by Claude Arpi
330. Tibet: When the Gods Spoke India Tibet Relations (1947-1962) Part 3 (July 1954 – February 1957) by Claude Arpi
331. The End of an Era: India Tibet Relations 1947-1962: India Exists Tibet (India Tibet Relations 1947-1962) Part 4 by Arpi Claude

International Relations and India’s Foreign Affairs

332. Clash of Civilisations by Samuel P. Huntington
333. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
334. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer
335. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
336. Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 by Pallavi Raghavan
337. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide Book by Gary J. Bass
338. Durand’s Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart Book by Rajiv Dogra
339. Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. Bass
340. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10,2001 by Steve Coll
341. India in the United Nations: Interplay of Interests and Principles by C S R Murthy
342. India and the World: Through the Eyes of Indian Diplomats by Surendra Kumar
343. India’s World: How Prime Ministers Shaped Foreign Policy By Rajiv Dogra
344. Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power by Aparna Pande and Christophe Jaffrelot
345. The Nepal Nexus: An Inside Account of the Maoists, the Durbar and New Delhi by Sudheer Sharma
346. Pax Indica- India and the World of the 21st century by Shashi Tharoor
347. Strategic consequences of India’s economic performance by Sanjaya Baru

India’s Military History and Intelligence Agencies + Learnings from Others

348. The Brave: Param Vir Chakra Stories by Rachna Bisht
349. Himalayan Blunder: The Curtain-Raiser to the Sino-Indian War of 1962 by J. P. Dalvi
350. India’s Most Fearless by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh
351. India’s Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice Written by: Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh
352. India’s Wars: A Military History by Arjun Subramaniam
353. Let Bhutto Eat Grass by Shaunak Agarkhedkar
354. Let Bhutto Eat Grass: Part Two by Shaunak Agarkhedkar
355. Kargil: From Surprise To Victory by General V. P. Malik
356. Mashkoh: Kargil as I saw It by Brig. Umesh Singh Bawa
357. Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military by Sushant Singh
358. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal
359. Open Secrets: India’s Intelligence Unveiled by Maloy Krishna Dhar
360. RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations by Yatish Yadav
361. R. N. Kao Gentleman Spymaster by Nitin Gokhale
362. War Despatches: Indo-Pak Conflict 1965 by Harbaksh Singh
363. Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory Over China by Probal Dasgupta
364. We Must Have No Price: National Security, Reforms, Political Reconstruction by Arun Shourie

Pakistan and its leaders

365. Balochistan: Bruised, Battered and Bloodied by Francesca Marino
366. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016 by Steve Coll
367. India vs Pakistan: Why Can’t We Just be Friends? by Hussain Haqqani
368. Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History by Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed
369. Jinnah Often Came to Our House by Kiran Doshi
370. The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience by Christophe Jaffrelot
371. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani
372. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal

Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh

373. Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir by AG Noorani
374. Crisis in Kashmir by Pyarelal Kaul
375. Curfewed Nights by Bashrat Peer
376. Kashmir Documentation, Pandits in Exile by Panun Kashmir movement
377. Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012: Volume 1 & 2 by A. G. Noorani
378. A Long Dream of Home: The persecution, exile and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits by Siddhartha Gigoo and Varad Sharma
379. My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir by Jagmohan
380. Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita

States of India: Politics and Policy

381. Assam: Accord, Discord, and Nationalism by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
382. Bengalis Portrait of a Community by Sudip Chakravarty
383. Bloody Islands by Deep Haldar
384. Shiksha: My Experiments as an Education Minister by Manish Sisodia

Western Classics

385. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
386. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
387. Animal Farm by George Orwell
388. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
389. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
390. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
391. The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
392. Iliad by Homer
393. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
394. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
395. Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning Victor Frankl
396. The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and East by Alan Macfarlane
397. The Mother by Maxim Gorky
398. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
399. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
400. Orientalism by Edward W Said
401. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
402. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
403. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
404. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
405. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
406. Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
407. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
408. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
409. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
410. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anti-Woke Literature

411. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli
412. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
413. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana by Russell Kirk
414. Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Sir Roger Scruton
415. The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature by Gad Saad
416. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
417. How to Be a Conservative by Sir Roger Scruton
418. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
419. Blackout by Candace Owens
420. The End of Gender by Dr. Debra Soh
421. The Great Melody by Conor Cruise O’Brien
422. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
423. A Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
424. Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers

Woke Literature

425. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
426. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky
427. Who Rules the World? By Noam Chomsky
428. Woke by Titania McGrath
429. What the Nation Really Needs to Know: The JNU Nationalism Lectures
430. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
431. How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

Business Skills- In Application

432. Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as you negotiate by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro
433. Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in by Roger Fisher
434. Let’s Talk Money: You’ve Worked Hard for It, Now Make It Work for You by Monika Halan
435. Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
436. The Power of a Positive No: Save the Deal, Save the relationship, and Still Say No by William Ury
437. Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! by Robert T. Kiyosaki

General Good Reads

438. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
439. How to read a book? by Mortimer J. Adler
440. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
441. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
442. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
443. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
444. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris