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Famous Books by Indian Authors

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A Bend in the river V S Naipaul

A Brush with Life Satish Gujral

A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib S S Kohli

A Foreign Policy for India I K Gujral

A Himalayan Love Story Namita Gokhale

A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History P N Chopra

A Peep into the Past Vasant Navrekar

A Possible India Partha Chatterjee

A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets Abdulla Kamal

A Reveolutionary Life Laxmi Sehgal

A Secular Agenda Arun Shourie

A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth

Acoession to Extinction D R Mankekar

Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy J N Dixit

Adhe Adhure Mohan Rakesh

After the Dark Night S M Ali

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Agni Pariksha Acharya Tulsi

Agni Veena Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ain-i-Akbari Abul Fazal

Ajatshatru Jai Shankar Prasad

Akbarnama Abul Fazal

Amar Kosh Amar Singh

An Autobiography Jawaharlal Nehru

An idealist View of Life Dr S Radhakrishnan

Anandmath Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance J N Dixit

Anguish of Deprived Lakshmidhar Mishra

Answer to History Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Area of Darkness V S Naipaul

Arion and the Dolphin Vikram Seth

Arthashastra Kautilya

Ashtadhyayi Panini

Asia and Western Dominance K M Panikkar

Assassination of a Prime Minister S Anandram

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Assignment Colombo J N Dixit

Atoms of Hope Mohan Sundara Rajan

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian Nirad C Chaudhuri

Backward Place Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

Bandicoot Run Manohar Malgonkar

Bang-i-Dara Mohammad lqbal

Beginning of the Beginning Acharya Rajneesh

Bend in the Ganges Manohar Malgonkar

Between the Lines Kuldip Nayar

Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord Rasheedud-din Khan

Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire Swaraj Paul

Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self Sisir Kumar Ghose

Bhagwat Gita Veda Vyas

Bharal Aur Europe Nirmal Verma

Bharat Bharati Maithili Sharan Gupta

Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar Govind Chandra Pande

Bisarjan R N Tagore

Blind Men of Hindoostan-indo-Pak Nuclear War Gen Krishnaswamy Sundarji

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Bliss was it in that Dawn Minoo Masani

Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin

Bostaan Sheikh Saadi

Bread, Beauty and Revolution Khwaja Ahmed Abbas

Breaking the Silence Anees Jung

Breakthrough Gen Moshe Dayan

Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories Khushwant Singh

Bridge’s Book of Beauty Mulk Raj Anand

Brishbikkha Bankim Chandra Chatterji

Britain’s True History Prem Bhatia

Broken Wings Sarojini Naidu

Bubble Mulk Raj Anand

Buddha Charitam Ashvaghosha

Bunch of Old Letters Jawaharlal Nehru

By God’s Decree Kapil Dev

Canvass of Life Sheila Gujral

Chandalika Rabindranath Tagore

Chemmeen Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

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Chidambara Sumitranandan Pant

Chikaveera Rajendra Masti Venkatesh lyengar

Chinese Betrayal B N Mullick

Chitra Rabindranath Tagore

Choma’s Drum K Shivaram Karanath

Chithirappaavai P V Akilandam

Confessions of a Lover Mulk Raj Anand

Confrontation with Pakistan Gen B M Kaul

Conquest of Self Mahatma Gandhi

Continent of Circle Nirad C Chaudhuri

Coolie Mulk Raj Anand

Court Dancer Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Moon Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Over Kashmir Anil Maheshwari

Crisis into Chaos E M S Namboodiripad

Crossing the Sacred Line-Women’s Abhilasha Kumari, Sabina

Search for Political Power Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai

Crown and the Loincloth Chaman Nahal

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Cuckold Kiran Nagar Kar

Culture in the Vanity Bag Nirad C Chaudhuri

Curtain Raisers K Natwar Singh

Dark Room R K Narayan

Dashkumar Charitam Dandi

Daughter of the East Benazir Bhutto

Day in Shadow Nayantara Sehgal

Days of My Yers H P Nanda

Death of a City Amrita Pritam

Death-The Supreme Friend Kakasaheb Kalelkar

Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi D R Mankekar and Kamala

Mankekar

Democracy Redeemed V K Narsimhan

Devadas Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

Dharmashastra Manu

Discovery of India Jawaharlal Nehru

Distant Drums Manohar Malgonkar

Distant Neighbours Kuldip Nayar

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Divine Comedy A Dante

Divine Life Swami Sivananda

Don’t Laugh-We are Police Bishan Lal Vohra

Dream in Hawaii Bhabani Bhattacharya

Durgesh Nandini Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Dynamics of Social Change Chandra Shekhar

Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Albert Gore

East of Eden B N Mullick

East West Salman Rushdie

Economic Planning of India Ashok Mehta

Economics of the Third World S K Ray

Eight Lives Rajmohan Gandhi

End of an Era C S Pandit

English August Upamanyu Chatterjee

Essays On Gita Aurobindo Ghosh

Eternal Himalayas Major H P S Ahluwalia

Eternal India Indira Gandhi

Eternity Anwar Shaikh

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Faces to Everest Maj H P S Ahluwalia

Facts are Facts Khan Abdul Wali Khan

Faith & Fire: A Way Within Madhu Tandon

Fall of a Sparrow Salim Ali

Farewell to a Ghost Manoj Das

Fasana-i-Azad Ratan Nath Sarkar

Flames from the Ashes P D Tandon

Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India V K R V Rao

Forbidden Sea Tara Ali Baig

Fortynine Days Amrita Pritam

Freedom Behind Bars Sheikh Mohd Abdullah

Friends and Foes Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

Friends, Not Masters Ayub Khan

From india to America S Chandrashekhar

From Rajpath to Lokpath Vijaya Raja Scindia

Future of NPT Savita Pande

Ganadevata Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

Gardener Rabindra Nath Tagore

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Geeta Govind Jaya Dev

Ghasiram Kotwal Vijay Tendulkar

Gita Rahasya Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Gitanjali Rabindra Nath Tagore

Glimpses of Indian Ocean Z A Quasim

Glimpses of World History Jawaharlal Nehru

Goa Asif Currimbhoy

Godan Munshi Prem Chand

Godrej: A Hundred Years B K Karanjia

Golden Gate Vikram Seth

Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu

Gora Rabindra Nath Tagore

Great Depression of 1990 Ravi Batra

Guide R K Narayan

Gul-e-Naghma Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’

Gorakhpuri

Gulistan Boston Sheikh Saadi

Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep Promilla Kalhan

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in the Service of the People Promilla Kalhan

Gurusagaram O V Vijayan

Harsha Charita Bana Bhatt

Harvest Majula Padmanabhan

Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

Heavy Weather P G Wodehouse

Henry Esmond Thackeray

Heir Apparent Dr Karan Singh

Higher than Hope Fatima Meer

Himalayan Blunder Brig J P Dalvi

Hindu View of Life Dr S Radhakrishnan

History of Hindu Chemistry Sir P C Ray

Hitopadesh R K Narayan

Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas R S Chaturvedi

Hind Swaraj M K Gandhi

Hindu Civilisation J M Barrie

Hinduism Nirad C Chaudhary

Hungry Stones Rabindra Nath Tagore

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I am not an Island K A Abbas

I Dare Parmesh Dangwal

I follow the Mahatma K M Munshi

I Muse; Therefore I am V N Narayanan

Idols Sunil Gavaskar

In the Light of the Black Sun Rohit Manchanda

In the Shadow of Pines Mandeep Rai

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & Dr Y S

Rajan

India-A Wounded Civilisation V S Naipaul

India-From Curzon to Nehru and After Durga Dass

India-From Midnight to the Millennium Shashi Tharoor

India-Independence Festival (1947-1997) Raghu Rai

India in Transition Prof Jagdish Bhagwati

India is for Sale Chitra Subramaniam

India of Our Dreams M V Kamath

India Today Rajni Palme Dutt

Indian Home Rule M K Gandhi

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Indian Philosophy Dr S Radhakrishnan

India’s Culture the State the Arts & Beyond B P Singh

India’s Economic Crisis Dr Bimal Jalan

Essay’s for Manmohan Singh I J Ahluwalia & M D Little

Indian Arms Bazaar Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain

India Divided Rajendra Prasad

India Wins Freedom Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Indian Muslims Prof Mohd Mujeeb

India, the Critial Years Kuldip Nayar

Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style Nayantara Sehgal

Indira’s India S Nihal Singh

Inside the CBI Joginder Singh

Insider P V Narsimha Rao

Intelligence Services Dr Bhashyam Kasturi

It is Always Possible Kiran Bedi

Jai Somnath K M Munshi

Jaguar Smile Salman Rushdie

Jajar, Churashir Maa Mahashweta Devi

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Jankijeevanam Prof Rajendra Mishra

Jawaharlal Nehru-A Communicator Damodaran, A. K.

& Democratic Leader A K Damodran

Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman B R Nanda

Junglee Girl Ginu Kamani

Kadambari Bana Bhatt

Kamadhenu Kubernath Ray

Kamasutra Vatsyayan

Kagaz Te Kanwas Amrita Pritam

Kamayani Jai Shankar Pandit

Kali Aandhi Kamleshwar

Kanthapura Raja Rao

Kanyadaan Vijay Tendulkar

Kapal Kundala Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Kashmir-A Tale of Shame Hari Jaisingh

Kashmir-Behind the Vale M J Akbar

Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy Gen Arjun Ray

Kashmir-The Wounded Valley Ajit Bhattacharjee

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Kashmir in the Crossfire Victoria Shaffield

Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors Tavleen Singh

Katghare Main Ram Sharan Joshi

Kayakalp Munshi Prem Chand

Kayar Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Keepers of the Keys Milan Kundera

King of Dark Chamber Rabindra Nath Tagore

Kiratarjuniya Bharavi

Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar S H Vatsyayan

Koraner Nari Taslima Nasreen

Kore Kagaz Amrita Pritam

Kulliyat Ghalib

Kumar Sambhava Kalidas

Lajja Taslima Nasreen

Lal Bahadur Shastri C P Srivastava

Last Phase Pyare Lal

Law, Lawyers & Judges H R Bhardwaj

Laws Versus Justice V R Krishna Iyer

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Legacy of a Divided Nation Prof Mushirul Hasan

Life Divine Aurobindo Ghosh

Life is Elsewhere Milan Kundera

Lipika Rabindranath Tagore

Lost Child Mulk Raj Anand

Love and Longing in Bombay Vikram Chandra

Love in A Blue Time Hanif Khureshi

Love, Truth and A Little Malice Khushwant Singh

Mahabharata Vyasa

Malati Madhav Bhavabhuti

Magnificent Maharaja K Natwar Singh

Mahatma Gandhi Girija Kumar Mathur

Malavikagnimitra Kalidas

Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam Prof Raghuvansh

Many Worlds K P S Menon

Mati Matal Gopinath Mohanty

Meghdoot Kalidas

Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy lqbal Akhund

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Men Who Killed Gandhi Manohar Malgonkar

Meri Rehen Meri Manzil Krishna Puri

Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

Million Mutinies Now V S Naipaul

Missed Oppertunites: Indo-Pak War 1965 Maj-Gen, Lakshman Singh

Mistaken identity Nayantara Sehgal

Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal

Political Economy Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal

Modernity Morality And The Mahatma Madhuri Santhanam Sondhi

Mondays on Dark Night of Moon Kirin Narayan

Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu K Shivram Karanth

Moor’s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie

Mrinalini Bankim Chandra Charrerjee

Mritunjaya Shivaji Sawant

Mrs Gandhi’s Second Reign Arun Shourie

Mudra rakshasa Vishakhadatta

Mughal Maharajas And The Mahatma K R N Swami

Muslim Law and the Constitution A M Bhattacharjea

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My Days R K Narayan

My Early Life M K Gandhi

My Experiment With Truth M K Gandhi

My Life and Times V V Giri

My Own Boswell M Hidayatullah

My India S Nihal Singh

My Music, My Love Ravi Shankar

My Presidential Years Ramaswamy Venkataraman

My Truth Indira Gandhi

My South Block Years J N Dixit

My Struggles E K Nayanar

My Prison Diary J P Narayan

Naari Humayun Azad

Naganandan Harsha Vardhana

Naku Thanthi D R Bendre

Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Pathor Ki Dewar Ali Sardar Jafri

Naivedyam (The Offering) N Balamani Amma

Naked Triangle Balwant Gargi

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Nehru Family and Sikhs Harbans Singh

Netaji-Dead or Alive Samar Guha

New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy Atal Behari Vajpayee

Nice Guys Finish Second B K Nehru

Nisheeth Uma Shankar Joshi

Niti-Sataka Bhartrihari

Nirbashita Narir Kabita Taslima Nasreen

Non-Violence in Peace and War M K Gandhi

Nuclear India G G Mirchandani and P K S

Nurturing Development Ismail Serageldin

Odakkuzal G Shankara Kurup

One-eyed Uncle Laxmikant Mahapatra

One World to Share Sridath Ramphal

Operation Bluestar-the True Story Lt-Gen K S Brar

Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray

Our India Minoo Masani

Out of Dust F D Karaka

Padmavati Malik Mohammed Jayasi

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Painter of Signs R K Narayan

Pakistan in the 20th Century Lawrence Ziring

Pakistan Papers Mani Shankar Aiyer

Panchagram Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya

Panchtantra Vishnu Sharma

Pakistan Cut to Size D R Mankekar

Passage to England Nirad C Chaudhuri

Past Forward G R Narayanan

Pather Panchali Bibhuti Bhushan

Bandyopadhyaya

Pinjar Amrita Pritam

Plans for Departure Nayantara Sehgal

Portrait of India Ved Mehta

Post Office Rabindranath Tagore

Prathama Pratishruti Ashapurna Devi

Prem Pachisi Prem Chand

Premonitions P N Haksar

Price of Partition Rafiq Zakaria

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Prison and Chocolate Cake Nayantara Sehgal

Prison Diary Jayaprakash Narayan

Prisoner’s Scrapbook L K Advani

Prithviraj Raso Chand Bardai

Profiles & Letters K Natwar Singh

Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood K P S Gill

Quest for Conscience Madhu Dandavate

Radharani Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Raghuvamsa Kalidas

Rajtarangini Kalhana

Ram Charit Manas Tulsidas

Ramayana Maharishi Valmiki (in

Sanskrit)

Ramayana Dharshanam K V Puttappa

Rangbhoomi Prem Chand

Rang-e-Shairi Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’

Gorakhpuri

Ratnavali Harsha Vardhan

Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) Gulzar

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Rediscovering Gandhi Yogesh Chadha

Reminiscences of the Nehru Age M O Mathai

Return of the Aryans Bhagwan S Gidwani

Returning to the Source Acharya Rajneesh

Revenue Stamp Amrita Pritam

Rich Like Us Nayantara Sehgal

Ritu Ka Pehla Phool Vijendra

Ritu Samhara Kalidas

River Sutra Gita Mehta

Road to Freedom K K Khullar

Rukh Te Rishi Harbhajan Singh

Sader-i-Riyasat Karan Singh

Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims Rafiq Zakaria

Sakharam Binder Vijay Tendulkar

Saket Maithili Sharan Gupta

Satyartha Prakash Swami Dayanand

Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie

Savitri Aurobindo Ghosh

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Sceptred Flute Sarojini Naidu

Scholar Extraordinary Nirad C Chaudhuri

Scope of Happiness Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Search for Home Sasthi Brata

Sense of Time S H Vatsyayan

Seven Summers Mulk Raj Anand

Tamas Bhisham Sahni

Tarkash Javed Akhtar

Tehriq-e-Mujahideen Dr Sadiq Hussain

The Assassination K Mohandas

The Betrayal of East Pakistan Lt Gen A A K

The Calcutta Chromosome Amitav Ghosh

The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama Sanjay Subramanyam

The Chinese Betrayal B N Mullick

The Congress Splits R P Rao

The Defeat or Distant Drumbeats Bhaskar Roy

Unhappy India Lala Lajpat Rai

Until Darkness Parvin Ghaffari

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Utouchable Mulk Raj Anand

Urvashi Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’

Uttar Ramcharita Bhava Bhuti

Untold Story Gen B M Kaul

Vanity Fair Thackeray

Vendor of Sweets R K Narayan

Venisamhara Narayana Bhatt

Village by the Sea Anita Desai

Village Mulk Raj Anand

Vinay Patrika Tulsidas

Virangana Maithili Sharan Gupta

Vish Vriksha Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Voice of Conscience V V Giri

Voice of Freedom Nayantara Sehgal

Waiting for the Mahatma R K Narayan

Walls of Glass K A Abbas

War and No Peace Over Kashmir Maroof Raza

War of Indian Independence Vir Savarkar

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We, Indians Khushwant Singh

We, the People N A Palkhivala

Widening Divide Rafiq Zakaria

Wings of fire, an Autobiography Dr A P J Abdul Kalam &

A. Tiwari

Witness to History Prem Bhatia

Without Fear or Favour Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Women and Men in My Life Khushwant Singh

Worshipping False Gods Arun Shourie

Wreck Rabindra Nath Tagore

Yajnaseni Dr Pratibha Roy

Yama Mahadevi Verma

Yashodhara Maithili Sharan Gupta

Yayati V S Khandekar

Year of the Vulture Amita Malik

Years of Pilgrimage Dr Raja Ramanna

Yesterday and Today K P S Menon

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan Rafi Raza