Books

You can read these books to increase your knowledge .

  1. The Wonder That Was India: 1 This Book is an excellent work on ancient india by A L Basham. Everyone should read it.
  2. The Illustrated Cultural History of India by A L Basham.
  3. The Penguin History of Early India: From the Origins to AD 1300 (by Romila Thapar) This book tells us about social, political and economic life of ancient and gupta india.
  4. A History of Medieval India  The 1000 year period covered in this book details about the sequence of events and the empires that governed different parts of the country from the eighth to the eighteenth century.
  5. From Plassey To Partition and After by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay.
  6. The White Tiger: Booker Prize Winner 2008 a Book by Arvind Adiga which indulges into the details about the country’s corruption scene in a light as well as sarcastic tone.
  7. The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History a very new book which deals with Indian subcontinent to South East Asia and Australia & narrates a fascinating tale about the earliest human migrations out of Africa and the great cities of Angkor and Vijayanagar; medieval Arab empires and Chinese ‘treasure fleets’; the rivalries of European colonial powers and a new dawn.
  8. My Experiments With Truth my MK Gandhi.