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

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