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 and its Critiques

1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
2. Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell (5th ed.)
3. Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman
4. Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal by Ayn Rand
5. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
6. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
7. Confronting Capitalism: Real Solutions for a Troubled Economic System by Philip Kotler
8. Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business by John Mackey , Rajendra Sisodia
9. The Constitution of Liberty by Friedrich von Hayek
10. Das Capital by Karl Marx
11. Eat the Rich by P J O’Rourke
12. The Essential: Friedrich Hayek, Foundation for Economic Education
13. The Essential: Ludwig von Mises, Foundation for Economic Education
14. The Essential: Henry Hazlitt, Foundation for Economic Education
15. The Essential: Leonard Read, Foundation for Economic Education
16. The Essential: Frederic Bastiat, Foundation for Economic Education
17. Free To Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton and Rose Friedman
18. Friedman on India by Centre for Civil Society
19. Globalisation and its discontents by Joseph E. Stiglitz
20. The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
21. The Joke by Milan Kundera
22. Love Letter to America by Yuri Bezmenov
23. The Origins of Money by Carl Menger
24. People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph Stiglitz
25. The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek
26. Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
27. The Socialist Phenomenon by Igor Shafarevich
28. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto by Walt Whitman Rostow
29. Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith

Constitution of India

30. The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis by Arun K. Thiruvengadam
31. India’s Founding Moment: The Constitution of a Most Surprising Democracy by Madhav Khosla
32. The Indian Constitution: Cornerstone of a Nation by Granville Austin
33. Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution by Gautam Bhatia
34. The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution by Sujit Choudhry, Madhav Khosla, and Pratap Bhanu Mehta
35. A People’s Constitution by Rohit De
36. Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India by Abhinav Chandrachud
37. Sixteen Stormy Days: The Story of the First Amendment to the Constitution of India by Tripurdaman Singh
38. Working a Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience by Granville Austin
39. Worshipping False Gods by Arun Shourie

Secularism- India and the West

40. 70 Years of Indian Secularism by Sandeep Balakrishna
41. European Secularism: Mother of Misconceptions by Sriram Sathe
42. India’s Secularism: New Name for National Subversion, tr. Yashpal Sharma
43. The Problem with Secularism by Koenraad Elst
44. PseudoSecularism by Sita Ram Goel
45. Republic of Religion: The Rise and Fall of Colonial Secularism in India by Abhinav Chandrachud
46. Secular Agenda: to Save Our Country, to Weld It by Arun Shourie

Bar and Bench

47. Before Memory Fades: An Autobiography by Fali S. Nariman
48. The Cases That India Forgot by Chintan Chandrachud
49. Courts and Their Judgments: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences by Arun Shourie
50. The Informal Constitution: Unwritten Criteria in Selecting Judges for the Supreme Court of India (OIP) by Abhinav Chandrachud
51. Nani Palkhivala: The Courtroom Genius by Soli J. Sorabjee and Arvind P. Datar
52. Two Outstanding Indian Judges by Lokendra Malik

Dalits, Caste Politics, B R Ambedkar and Buddhism

53. Caste in Indian Politics by Rajni Khothari
54. Caste Matters by Suraj Yengde
55. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making by Nicholas B. Dirk
56. Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age by Susan Bayly
57. Interrogating Caste by Dipankar Gupta
58. Untouchable by Mulk Raj Anand
59. Ambedkar’s Preamble: A Secret History of the Constitution of India by Aakash Singh Rathore
60. The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi by Arundhati Roy
61. Dr. Ambedkar and Democracy- An Anthology by Christophe Jaffrelot and Narender Kumar
62. Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability Book by Christophe Jaffrelot
63. Pakistan or the Partition of India by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
64. The Radical in Ambedkar: Critical Reflections by Anand Teltumbde and Suraj Yengde
65. What Congress and Gandhi have done to the Untouchables by Dr. B. R. Ambedkar
66. The Cult of Emptiness: The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy by Urs App
67. Unforgettable Dalit Voice: Life, Writings & Speeches of M. C. Rajah by Swaraj Basu
68. Complete works of E V Ramasamy Naicker Periyar
69. Why I Am Not a Hindu: A Sudra critique of Hindutva philosophy, culture and political economy by Kancha Illiah Shepherd
70. Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution by Kancha Illiah Shepherd
71. Samskara- A Rite for a Dead Man by U.R. Ananthamurthy (Translated from the Kannada by A. K. Ramanujan)

Works of V S Naipaul

72. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey by V S Naipaul
73. An Area of Darkness by V S Naipaul
74. Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul
75. India: A million mutinies now by V S Naipaul
76. India: A wounded civilisation by V S Naipaul

History of India

History Writing

77. The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty
78. Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud by Arun Shourie
79. History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G.S. Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past by T.C.A. Raghavan
80. Invading the Sacred by Krishnan Ramaswamy, Antonio de Nicolas and Aditi Banerjee
81. Main Hoon Bharatiya by K K Mohammed
82. Negationism in India, Concealing the Record of Islam by Koenraad Elst
83. Stalinist ‘Historians’ Spread the Big Lie by Sita Ram Goel
84. What is History? by EH Carr

Beyond confines of time

85. The Hindus: An Alternate History by Wendy Doniger
86. Hindu Law: Beyond Tradition and Modernity by Werner Menski
87. The History and Culture of Indian people 11 volumes by R.C.Majumdar
88. The History of India Told by Its Own Historians, 8 vols by Sir H.M. Elliot and John Dowson
89. The Incredible History of India’s Geography by Sanjeev Sanyal and Sowmya Rajendran
90. India Moving: A History of Migration by Chinmay Tumbe
91. Indian Nationalism – Its Origin History & Ideals by KM Panikkar
92. The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline by Sanjeev Sanyal
93. Jainism through the Ages by Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Karnataka
94. Land of the Seven Rivers: A Brief History of India’s Geography by Sanjeev Sanyal
95. Nationalism in Hindu culture by Radha Kumud Mukherjee
96. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History by Sanjeev Sanyal
97. The Rediscovery of India by Meghnad Desai and Baron Desai
98. Relevance of Kautilya For Today by K.S. Narayanacharya

Ancient Era

99. Ancient India by R.C.Majumdar
100. The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identity by Amartya Sen
101. Arthashastra by Kautilya
102. The Educational Heritage Of Ancient India by Sahana Singh
103. A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century by Upinder Singh
104. India in Greece or, Truth in Mythology by E. Pococke
105. India’s Ancient Past by R S Sharma
106. India as known to Panini by V.S. Agarwala
107. Political History of Ancient India, From the Accession of Parikshit to the extinction of the Gupta Dynasty by Hemchandra Raychaudhuri
108. Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh

Medieval Era

Overview

109. Aavarna by S L Bhyrappa (translation to English from Kannada by Sandeep Balakrishna)
110. Advanced Study in the History of Medieval India Volume I to III by J L Mehta
111. The New Cambridge History of India: The Mughal Empire by John F Richards
112. A History of Medieval India by Satish Chandra
113. India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 by Richard M. Eaton
114. Muslim Slave System in Medieval India by Kishori Saran Lal
115. Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

Iconoclasm, Hindu Temples and Hindu Resistance

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

Chhatrapati and Raya

121. Challenging Destiny: A Biography of Chhatrapati Shivaji by Medha Deshmukh Bhaskaran
122. The Judicial System of the Marathas by Vithal Trimbak Gune
123. Life and Achievements of Sri Krishnadevaraya by Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Karnataka
124. Rebel Sultans: The Deccan from Khilji to Shivaji by Manu S. Pillai
125. Shivaji and his Times by Jadunath Sircar
126. Shivaji: The Great Maratha by Ranjit Desai and Vikrant Pande
127. Who is Shivaji? By Govind Pansare
128. A Forgotten Empire: Vijayanagar by Robert Sewell
129. Raya: Krishnadevaraya of Vijayanagara by Srinivas Reddy

Pre-Mughal Medieval Era

130. 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

Mughals

131. Baburnama: A Memoir by Annette Susannah Beveridge
132. The History of Humayun (Humayun Nama) by Gul Badan Begum (tr. Annette S. Beveridge)
133. The A-IN-I-Akbari, tr. H. Blochmann, vols I, II & III
134. The Akbar Nama, tr. H. Beveridge, vols I & II
135. The Jahangirnama: Memoirs of Jahangir, by Wheeler Thackston
136. The Tuzuk-I-Jahangiri: The Memoirs of Jahangir, 2 vols by Alexander Rogers, and Henry Beveridge
137. The Emperor Who Never Was: Dara Shukoh in Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi
138. Aurangzib and the Decay of Mughal Empire by Stanley Lane-Poole
139. Aurangzeb- The Man and The Myth by Audrey Truschke
140. History of Aurangzib by Sir Jadunath Sircar
141. Maasir-I-Alamgiri by Saqi Must’ad Khan (translated to English by Jadunath Sarkar)

Pre-independence History

Company and Crown Rule

142. The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire by William Dalrymple
143. Besieged: Voices From Delhi-1857 by Mahmood Farooqui
144. Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
145. Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore by Manu S. Pillai
146. Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis
147. Veer Kuer Singh: The Great Warrior of 1857 by Srinivas Kumar Sinha
148. White Mughals by William Dalrymple

Tipu Sultan- Tyrant vs Just

149. Tipu Sultan: The Tyrant of Mysore by Sandeep Balakrishna
150. Tipu as He Really Was by Gajanan Bhaskar Mehendale
151. Tiger : The Life Of Tipu Sultan by Kate Brittlebank
152. The Sword of Tipu Sultan by Bhagwan Gidwani
153. Tipu Sultan: The Tiger of Mysore by Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Karnataka

Indian National Movement

154. Builders of Modern India- K M Munshi by V B Kulkarni
155. The Case of India by Will Durant
156. India from Curzon to Nehru and After by Durga Das
157. Poverty and un-British rule in India by Dadabhai Naoroji
158. Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism by Dinyar Patel
159. A Nation in Making by Surendranath Banerjee
160. Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 by Vikram Sampath
161. Syama Prasad Mookerjee: Life and Times by Tathagata Roy
162. Complete works of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
163. The Man Who Saved India by Hindol Sengupta
164. Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore
165. Nationalism and Distortions in Indian History by Navaratna S Rajaram
166. On Nationalism by Romila Thapar and others
167. Indian Nationalism: The Essential Writings by S. Irfan Habib

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

168. My Experiments with Truth by M K Gandhi
169. Hind Swaraj by M K Gandhi
170. Gandhi Before India by Ramachandra Guha
171. Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World by Ramachandra Guha
172. Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age by Arthur Herman
173. Gandhi’s Hinduism the Struggle Against Jinnah’s Islam by M J Akbar
174. Why I killed Gandhi by Nathuram Godse

Partition and Making of the New Republic

175. Freedom At Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
176. How India Became Democratic: Citizenship and the Making of the Universal Franchise by Ornit Shani
177. Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex von Tunzelmann
178. India Wins Freedom by Maulana Azad
179. Integration of the Indian States by V P Menon
180. Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha
181. Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory by Aanchal Malhotra
182. The Shadow of the Great Game: The Untold Story of India’s Partition by Narendra Singh Sarila
183. Train to Pakistan by Kushwant Singh
184. The Transfer of Power in India by V. P. Menon
185. V. P. Menon: The Unsung Architect of Modern India by Narayani Basu

Post-Independence: Politics and History

Leaders of the Era

186. Nehru: The Invention of India by Shashi Tharoor
187. Reminiscences of the Nehru Age by M. O. Mathai
188. The God Who Failed: An Assessment of Jawaharlal Nehru’s Leadership by Madhav Godbole
189. Nehru’s 97 Major Blunders by Rajnikant Puranik
190. Soviet Russia: Some random sketches and impressions by J L Nehru
191. The Emergency by Coomi Kapoor
192. Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi by Katherine Frank
193. Intertwined Lives- P N Haksar and Indira Gandhi by Jairam Ramesh
194. JP Movement, Emergency and India’s Second Freedom by M G Devasahayam
195. Against the Tide by Minoo Masani
196. The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by Pranab Mukherjee
197. The Turbulent Years: 1980 – 1996 by Pranab Mukherjee
198. The Coalition Years: 1996 to 2012 by Pranab Mukherjee
199. The Presidential Years: 2012 to 2017 by Pranab Mukherjee
200. Half – Lion: How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India by Vinay Sitapati
201. The Insider by P V Narasimha Rao
202. The Accidental Prime Minister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh by Sanjaya Baru
203. The Empress: The Dramatic Life of A Powerful and Enigmatic Leader by Kalyani Shankar
204. Gopalganj to Raisina: My Political Journey by Lalu Prasad Yadav and Nalin Verma
205. Narendra Modi: A Political Biography by Andy Marino
206. The Red Sari by Javier Moor
207. The Tatas: How a Family Built a Business and a Nation by Girish Kuber and Vikrant Pande (translator)
208. Behind Bars: Prison Tales of India’s Most Famous by Sunetra Choudhury

Politics of the Era

209. Accidental India: A History of the Nation’s Passage through Crisis and Change by Shankar Ayyar
210. Burden of Democracy by Pratap Bhanu Mehta
211. The Crisis Within: On Knowledge and Education in India by G. N. Devy
212. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Bureaucracy But Were Afraid to Ask by T.R. Raghunandan
213. India after Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy by Ramachandra Guha
214. India at turning point: The road to good governance by T. S. R. Subramanian
215. Genesis and Growth of Nehruism, vol. 1 by Sita Ram Goel
216. How to Win an Indian Election: What Political Parties Don’t Want You to Know by Shivam Shankar Singh
217. The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani
218. A New Idea of India: Individual Rights in a Civilisational State by Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri
219. Ideology and Identity: The Changing Party Systems of India- Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma
220. The Only Fatherland: Communists, Quit India and the Soviet Union by Arun Shourie
221. Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple
222. Patriots and Partisans by Ramachandra Guha
223. Perversion of India’s Political Parlance by Sita Ram Goel
224. Politics in India by Rajni Kothari
225. Relentless: An Autobiography by Yashwant Sinha
226. Rethinking Democracy by Khothri Rajni
227. Revenge and Reconciliation by Raj Mohan Gandhi
228. Same-Sex Love in India by Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
229. The Scheduled Tribes of India by G S Ghurye
230. Transforming India: Challenges to the world’s largest democracy by Sumantra Bose
231. The Verdict by Prannoy Roy and Dorab R. Sopariwala
232. Lajja by Tasleema Nasreen
233. The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB in the World by Christopher Andrew
234. An Undocumented Wonder: The Great Indian Election by S. Y. Quraishi

India’s Economic History and Policy Approach

235. 70 Policies that Built India: 1947 to 2017, Independence to $2.5 Trillion by Gautam Chikermane
236. Anticipating India: The Best of National Interest by Shekhar Gupta
237. Bankruptcy to Billions: How the Indian Railways Transformed by Shagun Mehrotra and Sudhir Kumar
238. B R Shenoy: Economic Prophecies (Centre for Civil Society)
239. B R Shenoy: Theoretical Visions (Centre for Civil Society)
240. Backstage: The Story Behind India’s High Growth Years by Montek Singh Ahluwalia
241. The Cambridge Economic History of India Volume 1, c.1200-c.1750 Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri, Irfan Habib
242. The Cambridge Economic History of India Volume 2, c.1757–c.1970 Edited by Dharma Kumar, Meghnad Desai
243. The Economic History of India by Romesh Chunder Dutt
244. Everybody Loves a Good Drought: Stories from India’s Poorest Districts by P Sainath
245. The Gated Republic: India’s Public Policy Failures and Private Solutions by Shankkar Aiyar
246. India Grows at Night by Gurcharan Das
247. India: Planning for Industrialization and Trade Policies Since 1951 by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and Padma Desai
248. The Indian Railways by Bibek Debroy, Sanjay Chadha, and Vidya Krishnamurthy
249. India Unbound by Gurcharan Das
250. India Unincorporated by Ramachandran Vaidyanathan
251. India Unlimited: Reclaiming the Lost Glory by Arvind Panagariya
252. Reason and Reform: How Policy Reforms Have Shaped India by Bibek Debroy and Diwakar Jhurani
253. Restart: The last chance for the Indian Economy by Mihir Sharma
254. The Scam: Who Won, who Lost, who Got Away by Debashis Basu and Sucheta Dalal
255. In Service of the Republic: The Art and Science of Economic Policy by Vijay Kelkar
256. Transforming India, Big ideas for a developing Nation by Atanu Dey
257. An Uncertain Glory: India and its Contradictions by Jean Dreze and Amartya Sen
258. What the Economy Needs Now by Abhijit Banerjee, Raghuram G. Rajan, Gita Gopinath, and Mihir S. Sharma

Hindutva front: BJP, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and its leaders

259. 100 Years of RSS – P P Bajpai
260. Amit Shah and the March of BJP by Anirban Ganguly and Shiwanand Dwivedi
261. Builders of Modern India: Dr. Keshav Baliram Hedgewar by Rakesh Sinha
262. Bunch Of Thoughts by M. S. Golwalkar
263. Democracy and Elections- A Hindutva Story by Badri Narayan
264. Hindu Nationalism: A Reader by Christophe Jaffrelot
265. Hindu Terror: Insider Account of Ministry of Home Affairs 2006-2010 by R. V. S. Mani
266. Let Me Say it Now by Rakesh Maria
267. The Indian Conservative: A History of Indian Right-Wing Thought by Jaithirth Rao
268. Integral Humanism: An Analysis of Some Basic Elements by Deendayal Upadhyaya
269. Jugalbandi- The BJP before Modi by Vinay Sitapati
270. Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism Is Changing India by J. Christophe and T. Blom
271. RSS 360: Demystifying Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh by Ratan Sharda
272. The RSS- A View to the Inside by Walter Andersen and Shridhar D. Dalme
273. Saffron Versus Green: Communal Politics in the Central– Provinces and Berar, 1919-1947 by Kanchanmoy Mojumdar
274. Savarkar and Hindutva: The Godse Connection by A.G. Noorani
275. Secrets of RSS: Demystifying the Sangh by Ratan Sharda
276. Vajpayee: The Years That Changed India by Shakti Sinha
277. We or Our Nationhood defined – M. S. Golwalkar

Hindutva: Literature and Politics

278. Academic Hinduphobia by Rajiv Malhotra
279. Akhand Hindustan by K. M. Munshi
280. Awakening Bharat Mata: The Political Beliefs of the Indian Right Swapan Dasgupta
281. Battleground India, Prognosis of Hindu-Muslim Exclusivism by Maloy Dhar
282. The Battle for Sanskrit by Rajiv Malhotra
283. Because India Comes First: Reflections on Nationalism, Identity and Culture By Ram Madhav
284. Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines by Rajiv Malhotra and Aravindan Neelakandan
285. Decolonising the Hindu Mind by Koenraad Elst
286. Defence of Hindu Society by Sita Ram Goel
287. The English Medium Myth: Dismantling Barriers to India’s Growth by Sankrant Sanu
288. Essentials of Hindutva by Veer Savarkar
289. Hindus and Hinduism: Manipulation of Meanings by Sita Ram Goel
290. Hindu Society Under Siege by Sita Ram Goel
291. How I Became A Hindu (Reprinted with a postscript) by Sita Ram Goel
292. The Ideology of India’s Modern Right by Subramanian Swamy
293. Orphaned by S. L. Bhyrappa
294. The Saffron Swastika (The Notion of Hindu Fascism) vol. 1 & II by Koenraad Elst
295. Sanghi who never went to a Shakha by Rahul Raushan
296. Sanskrit Non-Translatables: The Importance of Sanskritizing English by Rajiv Malhotra

Hinduism: Historical Texts, Religious Texts and Philosophical Texts

297. Ashtavakra Gita
298. Atharvaveda Hindi Translation by Shri Damodar Satwalekar
299. Bengali Mahabharat by Kashiram Dasi Mahabharata
300. The Bhagavada Geeta, English translation by Swami Prabhupada and Swami Chidbhavananda
301. Brahma Sutra Bhasya by Sankaracarya translated by Swami Gambhirananda
302. Encyclopedia of Hinduism 11 volumes
303. Gita Darshan by R K Mission
304. The Hindu Way of Life: S Radhakrishnan
305. A History of the Dharmashastra by P V Kane
306. History of Indian Philosophy by Surendranath Dasgupta
307. 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)
308. Mahabharata Sanskrit Text with Hindi translation by Gita Press Gorakhpur
309. Manusmriti
310. Mandukya Upanishad With Gaudapada’s Karika and Shankara’s Commentary by Swami Nikhilananda
311. The Principal Upanishads by S. Radhakrishnan
312. Purāṇic Encyclopaedia by Vettam Mani
313. Rigveda 2 volumes Hindi translation by Shri Damodar Satwalekar
314. The Rigveda A Historical Analysis by Shrikant Talageri
315. The Rāmāyaṇa: Its Origin & Growth – A Statistical Study by M. R. Yardi (BORI, Pune)
316. The Mahābhārata: Its Genesis and Growth by M. R. Yardi (BORI, Pune)
317. Samkhya Karika of Isvara Krsna with the Tattva Kaumudi by Vacaspati Mishra translated by Swami Virupakshananada
318. Samkhya Karika of Isvara Krsna (Text-Translation and Commentary- Yuktidipika) Translated by S.S. Suryanarayana Shastri. Edited by Dr. N. C. Panda
319. Samaveda Hindi translation by Swami Bramhamuni Parivrajak
320. Uniqueness of Carvaka Philosophy in traditional Indian thought by Bhupender Heera
321. Who is a Hindu? by Koenraad Elst
322. Yajurveda Hindi Translation by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati
323. Yagnavalkya Smriti

Indian Classics

324. Meghnad Badh Kavya by Michael Madhusudan Dutt
325. Menu Charitamu by Peddanna (Telugu classic)
326. Panchatantra by Pandit Vishnu Sharma
327. Raag Darbari by Sri Lal Shukla
328. Tattvopaplavasimha of Jayarasibhatta, English translation by V.N.Jha
329. Thirukkural Translations of GU Pope and Rajaji

Islam, Islamism and Kafirs

330. The Holy Quran English Translation by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Marmaduke Pickthall, Mohammad Habib Shakir and Sahih International.
331. The Calcutta Quran Petition by Sita Ram Goel
332. The Complete Infidels’ Guide to the Koran by Robert B. Spencer
333. The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS by Robert Spencer
334. Islam and Science: Religious Orthodoxy and the Battle for Rationality by Pervez Hoodbhoy
335. Jizyah and the Spread of Islam by Harsh Narain
336. The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, ed. Andrew Bostom
337. The Legacy of Muslim Rule in India by K S Lal
338. Muslim Separatism: Causes and Consequences by Sita Ram Goel
339. Muslim Slave System in Medieval India by K S Lal
340. Rangeela Rasool by Pandit M. A. Chamupati
341. The Satanic Verses by by Salman Rushdie
342. Understanding Islam through the Hadis by Ram Swarup
343. The World of Fatwas or Shariah in Action by Arun Shourie

Mother Teresa and Misdeeds of Missionaries

344. The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
345. Mother Teresa: The Untold Story by Aroup Chatterjee
346. Holy Bible English Translation (King James Version and American Standard Version)
347. 2000 years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haugt
348. Amen: The Autobiography of a Nun by Sister Jesme
349. Christian Missions and Hindu Resistance by Sita Ram Goel
350. Crusade in India: Christianity’s Struggle for Survival in the Post-colonial world by David Frawley, S.V. Seshagiri Rao and Navaratna S. Rajaram
351. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World by Catherine Nixey
352. The Goa Inquisition: The Terrible Tribunal for the East by Anant Kakba Priolkar
353. Harvesting Our Souls by Arun Shourie
354. History of Hindu Christian Encounters (AD 304 to 1996) by Sita Ram Goel
355. Malabar and The Portuguese by K.M. Panikkar
356. Missionaries in India by Arun Shourie
357. Arun Shourie and his Christian Critic by Fr. Augustine Kanjamala
358. The Myth of Saint Thomas and The Mylapore Shiva Temple by Ishwar Sharan
359. Niyogi Committee Report on Christian Missionary Activities by Niyogi Committee
360. Sati, Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain
361. Savaging the Civilized: Verrier Elwin, his Tribals and India by Ramachandra Guha

World History and History of Other Parts of the World

Snapshots

362. The Crusades Through Arab Eyes by Amin Maalouf
363. The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge
364. The Geography of Thought, How Asians and Westerners think differently and Why by Richard E Nisbett
365. Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond
366. How Democracies Die by Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt
367. The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West by Christopher Andrew
368. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
369. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yual Noah Harari
370. The Storm of War: A New History of The Second World War by Andrew Roberts
371. The Strange Death of Europe by Douglas Murray
372. War: How Conflict Shaped Us By Margaret MacMillan
373. War! What Is It Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots by Ian Morris
374. The World Economy by Angus Maddison two volumes
375. Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson
376. Why the West Rules—For Now by Ian Morris

On United States

377. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann
378. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
379. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
380. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
381. The Essential Scalia: On the Constitution, the Courts, and the Rule of Law by Antonin Scalia
382. Founding Brothers by Joseph J. Ellis
383. How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America by Heather Cox Richardson
384. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
385. Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
386. A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
387. A Promised Land by Barack Obama
388. Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley
389. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, by Jane Sherron De Hart
390. A Stillness at Appomattox by Bruce Catton
391. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin
392. Up from Slavery by Booker T. Washington
393. Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fischer
394. Witness by Whittaker Chambers

On United Kingdom

395. The Constitutional History of England by F.W. Maitland
396. Churchill: The Power of Words by Sir Winston Churchill and Martin Gilbert
397. Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts
398. The English and Their History by Robert Tombs
399. Ghosts of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng
400. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume One – Not For Turning: 1 by Charles Moore
401. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants: 2 by Charles Moore
402. Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Three: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
403. Mindf*ck: Inside Cambridge Analytica’s Plot to Break the World by Christopher Wylie

Mixed bag- Continents, Israel, China, Singapore and others

404. Africa: A Biography of the Continent by John Reader
405. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
406. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
407. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer
408. Napoleon the Great by Andrew Robert
409. Let There Be Water: Israel’s Solution for a Water-Starved World by Seth M. Siegel
410. Start-up Nation by Dan Senor and Saul Singer
411. O Jerusalem! by Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre
412. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
413. The Cambridge Illustrated History of China by Patricia Buckley Ebrey
414. Mao Zedong by Jonathan Clements
415. Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung by Mao Tse-tung
416. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
417. Tibet: The Last Months of a Free Nation: India Tibet Relations (1947-1962): Part 1 by Claude Arpi
418. Will Tibet Ever Find Her Soul Again?: India Tibet Relations 1947-1962 – Part 2 by Claude Arpi
419. Tibet: When the Gods Spoke India Tibet Relations (1947-1962) Part 3 (July 1954 – February 1957) by Claude Arpi
420. The End of an Era: India Tibet Relations 1947-1962: India Exists Tibet (India Tibet Relations 1947-1962) Part 4 by Arpi Claude
421. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
422. The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew by Lee Kuan Yew
423. Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths To Keep Singapore Going by Zuraidah Ibrahim and others

International Relations

424. Clash of Civilisations by Samuel P. Huntington
425. The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
426. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John Mearsheimer
427. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
428. Durand’s Curse: A Line Across the Pathan Heart Book by Rajiv Dogra
429. Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention by Gary J. Bass
430. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10,2001 by Steve Coll
431. Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power by Robert D Kaplan
432. The Most Dangerous Place: A History of the United States in South Asia by Srinath Raghavan
433. The Nepal Nexus: An Inside Account of the Maoists, the Durbar and New Delhi by Sudheer Sharma
434. Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need To Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
435. The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate by Robert D Kaplan

India’s Foreign Affairs

436. Animosity at Bay: An Alternative History of the India-Pakistan Relationship, 1947-1952 by Pallavi Raghavan
437. From Chanakya to Modi: The Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy by Aparna Pande
438. India’s China Challenge: A Journey Through China’s Rise and What It Means for India by Ananth Krishnan
439. India’s Foreign Policy since Independence by VP Dutt
440. India in the United Nations: Interplay of Interests and Principles by C S R Murthy
441. India and the World: Through the Eyes of Indian Diplomats by Surendra Kumar
442. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar
443. India’s World: How Prime Ministers Shaped Foreign Policy By Rajiv Dogra
444. Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power by Aparna Pande and Christophe Jaffrelot
445. Pax Indica- India and the World of the 21st century by Shashi Tharoor
446. Strategic consequences of India’s economic performance by Sanjaya Baru

India’s Military History

Panoramic view

447. India’s Wars: A Military History by Arjun Subramaniam
448. Behind The Scene: An Analysis of India’s Military Operations 1947–1971 by Jogindar Singh
449. Full Spectrum: India’s Wars, 1972 to 2020 by Arjun Subramaniam
450. The Brave: Param Vir Chakra Stories by Rachna Bisht
451. India’s Bravehearts: The Untold Stories of the Indian Army by Lieutenant General Satish Dua (Retired)
452. India’s Most Fearless by Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh
453. India’s Most Fearless 2: More Military Stories of Unimaginable Courage and Sacrifice Written by: Shiv Aroor and Rahul Singh
454. Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military by Sushant Singh

From 1962 to 1999

455. 1962: The War that Wasn’t by Shiv Kunal Verma
456. Himalayan Blunder: The Curtain-Raiser to the Sino-Indian War of 1962 by J. P. Dalvi
457. JFK’s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and the Sino-Indian War by Bruce Riedel
458. The McMahon Line: A Century of Discord: 100 Years of the Sino-Indian Boundary Dispute by General (Retd.) J. J. Singh
459. Watershed 1967: India’s Forgotten Victory Over China by Probal Dasgupta
460. 1965: Stories from the Second Indo-Pakistan War by Rachna Bisht
461. 1965 Turning the Tide: How India Won the War by Nitin A Gokhale
462. War Despatches: Indo-Pak Conflict 1965 by Harbaksh Singh
463. In the Line of Duty: A Soldier Remembers by Harbakhsh Harbakhsh Singh
464. From Kutch to Tashkent by Farooq Naseem Bajwa
465. The Man Who Bombed Karachi: A Memoir by Admiral S.M. Nanda
466. Surrender at Dacca: Birth of a Nation by J. F. R. Jacob
467. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide Book by Gary J. Bass
468. 1971: A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh by Srinath Raghavan
469. Kargil: From Surprise To Victory by General V. P. Malik
470. Mashkoh: Kargil as I saw It by Brig. Umesh Singh Bawa

Policy Approach and Memoirs

471. Guarding India’s Integrity: A Proactive Governor Speaks by S.K. Sinha
472. A Governor’s Musings: Soldier Statesman Speaks by Srinivas Kumar Sinha
473. Prepare Or Perish: A Study of National Security by K. V. Krishna Rao
474. In the Service of the Nation: Reminiscences by K. V. Krishna Rao
475. We Must Have No Price: National Security, Reforms, Political Reconstruction by Arun Shourie

India’s Intel Agencies & Learnings from Others

476. The Great Game by Peter Hopkirk
477. Mossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service by Michael Bar-Zohar , Nissim Mishal
478. The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew
479. Spycatcher by Paul Greengrass and Peter Wright
480. The Kaoboys of R&AW: Down Memory Lane by B. Raman
481. Let Bhutto Eat Grass by Shaunak Agarkhedkar
482. Let Bhutto Eat Grass: Part Two by Shaunak Agarkhedkar
483. Open Secrets: India’s Intelligence Unveiled by Maloy Krishna Dhar
484. RAW: A History of India’s Covert Operations by Yatish Yadav
485. R. N. Kao Gentleman Spymaster by Nitin Gokhale
486. The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations And Intelligence Agencies Construct Narratives by Vikram Sood

Pakistan and its leaders

487. Balochistan: Bruised, Battered and Bloodied by Francesca Marino
488. Born to Be Hanged: Political Biography of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto by Syeda Saiyidain Hameed
489. Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India by Venkat Dhulipala
490. Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001–2016 by Steve Coll
491. Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War by C. Christine Fair
492. India vs Pakistan: Why Can’t We Just be Friends? by Hussain Haqqani
493. In Their Own Words: Understanding Lashkar-e-Tayyaba by C. Christine Fair
494. Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History by Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed
495. Jinnah Often Came to Our House by Kiran Doshi
496. Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding by Husain Haqqani
497. The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State by Declan Walsh
498. Pakistan: The Balochistan Conundrum by Tilak Devasher
499. The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience by Christophe Jaffrelot
500. Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military by Hussain Haqqani
501. Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State by Husain Haqqani
502. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal
503. Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Robert D Kaplan

Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh

504. Article 370: A Constitutional History of Jammu and Kashmir by AG Noorani
505. Crisis in Kashmir by Pyarelal Kaul
506. Curfewed Nights by Bashrat Peer
507. Kashmir Documentation, Pandits in Exile by Panun Kashmir movement
508. Kashmir Dispute 1947-2012: Volume 1 & 2 by A. G. Noorani
509. Kashmir’s Untold Story: Declassified by Iqbal Chand Malhotra and Maroof Raza (Revised and Updated ed.)
510. Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years by A S Dulat and Aditya Sinha
511. A Long Dream of Home: The persecution, exile and exodus of Kashmiri Pandits by Siddhartha Gigoo and Varad Sharma
512. My Frozen Turbulence in Kashmir by Jagmohan
513. Our Moon has Blood Clots by Rahul Pandita

States of India: Politics and Policy

514. Assam: Accord, Discord, and Nationalism by Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
515. Bengalis Portrait of a Community by Sudip Chakravarty
516. Bloody Islands by Deep Haldar
517. Durable disorder – Understanding the politics of North-east India by Sanjib Baruah
518. A History of the Sikhs (1469-1839) – Vol. 1 by Khushwant Singh
519. A History of the Sikhs (1839-2004) – Vol. 2 by Khushwant Singh
520. The Punjab Story by K P S Gill
521. Karnataka: A Garden of Architecture by Directorate of Archaeology and Museums, Karnataka
522. Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to Our Times by Rajmohan Gandhi
523. Shiksha: My Experiments as an Education Minister by Manish Sisodia

Western Classics

524. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
525. Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller
526. Animal Farm by George Orwell
527. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
528. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
529. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
530. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
531. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
532. The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus
533. Iliad by Homer
534. Justice: What’s the Right Thing to do? By Michael Sandel
535. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
536. Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
537. Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning Victor Frankl
538. The Making of the Modern World: Visions from the West and East by Alan Macfarlane
539. The Mother by Maxim Gorky
540. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
541. On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
542. The Subjection of Women By John Stuart Mill
543. Orientalism by Edward W Said
544. The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
545. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
546. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
547. The Republic by Plato
548. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
549. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
550. Sherlock Holmes: The Definitive Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle
551. Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
552. The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
553. Two Treatises of Government by John Locke
554. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Anti-Woke Literature

555. Coningsby by Benjamin Disraeli
556. The Conscience of a Conservative by Barry Goldwater
557. The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Santayana by Russell Kirk
558. Conservatism: An Invitation to the Great Tradition by Sir Roger Scruton
559. The Consuming Instinct: What Juicy Burgers, Ferraris, Pornography, and Gift Giving Reveal About Human Nature by Gad Saad
560. Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose and James A. Lindsay
561. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left by Roger Scruton
562. How to Be a Conservative by Sir Roger Scruton
563. A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution, 1891-1924 by Orlando Figes
564. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression by Stéphane Courtois and others
565. 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
566. Blackout by Candace Owens
567. The End of Gender by Dr. Debra Soh
568. The Great Melody by Conor Cruise O’Brien
569. Intellectuals and Society by Thomas Sowell
570. Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters by Abigail Shrier
571. A Parasitic Mind by Gad Saad
572. Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers

Woke Literature

573. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S Herman and Noam Chomsky
574. Who Rules the World? By Noam Chomsky
575. Woke by Titania McGrath
576. What the Nation Really Needs to Know: The JNU Nationalism Lectures
577. How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them by Jason Stanley
578. How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

Business Skills- In Application

579. Beyond Reason: Using Emotions as you negotiate by Roger Fisher and Daniel Shapiro
580. Getting to Yes: Negotiating an agreement without giving in by Roger Fisher
581. Let’s Talk Money: You’ve Worked Hard for It, Now Make It Work for You by Monika Halan
582. Like a Virgin by Richard Branson
583. Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
584. The Power of a Positive No: Save the Deal, Save the relationship, and Still Say No by William Ury
585. The Art of Saying No by Damon Zahariades
586. 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

587. 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson
588. Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Bernt Peterson
589. Deep Work: Rules for Focussed Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
590. The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
591. How to read a book? by Mortimer J. Adler
592. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
593. The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
594. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
595. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
596. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris