List of Important Books and Authors

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List of Important Books and Authors

1. A Few Thousand Kilometres of Happiness - Anand Krishna Panicker
   
2. A Voice of Freedom - Nayantara Sahgal
3. Annihilation of Caste - B.R. Ambedkar
4. Bharat Durdasha - Bhartendu Harishchandra
5. Das Kapital - Karl Marx
6. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
7. Discovery of India - Jawaharlal Nehru
8. Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri
9. Divine Life for Children - Swami Shivanand
10. Don Quixote
    - Miguel de Cervantes
11. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
12. For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
13. Free Hindustan - Tarak Nath Das
14. Freedom at Midnight - Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins
15. French Revolution - Thomas Carlyle
16. Gandhi Before India - Ramachandra Guha
17. Gathering Storm - Winston Churchill
18. Geetanjali - Rabindra Nath Tagore
19. Glimpses of World History - Jawaharlal Nehru
20. Hamdard - Muhammad Ali
21. Hints For Self Culture - Lala Hardayal
22. History Of Congress - Bhogaraju Pattabhi Sitaramayya
23. Independent (Newspaper) - Motilal Nehru
    
24. India After Gandhi - The History of the World's Largest Democracy – Ramchandra Guha
25. India Divided - Dr. Rajendra Prasad
26. India For Indians - Chittaranjan Das
27. India Since Independence – Bipan Chandra
28. Indian Unrest - Valentine Chirol
29. Kaal - Paranjape
30. King Lear - William Shakespeare
31. Letters from a Father to her Daughter - Jawaharlal Nehru
32. Maximum City - Bombay Lost and Found - Suketu Mehta
33. Indian Struggle - Subhash Chandra Bose
34. Painter of Signs - R.K. Narayan
35. Panchatantra - Vishnu Sharma
36. Past Forward - G.R. Narayanan
37. Pather Panchali - Bibhuti Bhushan
38. Plain Speaking - N. Chandrababu Naidu
39. Portrait of India - Ved Mehta
40. Post Office - Rabindranath Tagore
41. Poverty and Un-British Rule in India - Dadabhai Naoroji
42. Prem Pachisi - Munshi Prem Chand
43. Raghuvamsa - Kalidas
44. Rajtarangini - Kalhana
45. Ram Charita Manas - Tulsidas
46. Ramayana - Maharishi Valmiki
47. Ranghbhoomi - Prem Chand
48. Ratnavali - Harsha Vardhan
49. Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi) - Gulzar
50. Red Earth and Pouring Rain - Vikram Chandra
51. Ritu Samhara - Kalidas
52. River of Smoke -
    Amitav Ghosh
53. Saket - Maithili Sharan Gupt
54. Sambad Kaumudi - Raja Ram Mohan Roy
55. Satyarth Darpan - Dayanand Saraswati
56. Seven Summers - Mulk Raj Anand
57. Shadow from Ladakh - Bhabani Bhattacharya
58. Snakes and Ladders - Essays on India - Gita Mehta
59. Social Change in Modern India - M.N. Srinivas
60. Som Prakash - Ishwarchadra Vidyasagar
61. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish - Rashmi Bansal
62. Sultry Days - Shobhaa De
63. Sunny Days - Sunny Days
64. The Bride’s Book of Beauty - Mulk Raj Anand
65. The Cat and Shakespeare - Raja Rao
66. The Congress and The Making of Indian Nation - Pranab Mukherjee
67. The Dark Room - R.K. Narayan
68. The Degeneration of India - T.N. Seshan
69. The Discovery of India – Jawaharlal Nehru
70. The Dramatic Decade The Indira Gandhi Year’s - Pranab Mukherjee
71. The Girmitiya Saga - Girraj Kishore
72. The Glass Palace -
    Amitav Ghosh
73. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
74. The Golden Gate - Vikram Seth
75. The Men Who Killed Gandhi - Manohar Malgonkar
76. The Revolutionary - Shachindra Sanyal
77. The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success - Deepak Chopra
78. The Songs of India - Sarojini Naidu
79. The Story of My Experiments with Truth - Mahatma Gandhi
80. The Strange and Sublime Address - Amit Chaudhuri
81. The Sword and the Sickle - Mulk Raj Anand
82. The Trial of Palande - Anuj Tikku
83. The Vendor of Sweets - R.K. Narayan
84. The Way of the Wizard - Deepak Chopra
85. Train to Pakistan - Khushwant Singh
86. Two Leaves and a Bud - Mulk Raj Anand
87. Unhappy India - Lala Lajpat Rai
88. Victoria and Abdul - Shrabani Basu
89. Vikram Seth - Kuldeep Nayar
90. Waiting for the Mahatma - R.K. Narayan
91. Wake Up India - Annie Besant
92. War of Indian Independence - Veer Savarkar
93. We, Indians - Khushwant Singh
94. Wings of Fire: An Autobiography - A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
95. Yama - Mahadevi Verma
96. Yashodhara - Maithili Sharan Gupt
97. Years of Pilgrimage - Dr. Raja Ramanna
98. Year of the Vulture - Amita Malik

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