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Historical34
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Historical Romance7

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A Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry
4.38 average rating, · 163.2k ratings
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The Palace of Illusions
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.20 average rating, · 69.2k ratings
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A Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth
4.11 average rating, · 50.6k ratings
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
Ramachandra Guha
4.39 average rating, · 18.4k ratings
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The Glass Palace
Amitav Ghosh
4.01 average rating, · 28.6k ratings
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The Twentieth Wife
Indu Sundaresan
4.07 average rating, · 17.1k ratings
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An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India
Shashi Tharoor
4.17 average rating, · 12.9k ratings
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Independence
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.11 average rating, · 13.3k ratings
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
William Dalrymple
4.20 average rating, · 8.7k ratings
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The Last Queen
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
4.09 average rating, · 9.3k ratings
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Flood of Fire
Amitav Ghosh
4.17 average rating, · 7k ratings
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The Feast of Roses
Indu Sundaresan
4.10 average rating, · 7.4k ratings
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Parthiban Kanavu- Dream of Parthiban
Kalki Krishnamurthy
4.28 average rating, · 5.4k ratings
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India's Struggle for Independence
Bipan Chandra
4.12 average rating, · 4.7k ratings
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Koh-I-Noor: The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
William Dalrymple
4.06 average rating, · 4.1k ratings
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The Ivory Throne: Chronicles of the House of Travancore
Manu S. Pillai
4.28 average rating, · 2.2k ratings
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History of Modern India
Bipan Chandra
4.08 average rating, · 2.4k ratings
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Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory
Aanchal Malhotra
4.43 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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Cuckold
Kiran Nagarkar
4.19 average rating, · 1.8k ratings
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Dozakhnama
Rabisankar Bal
4.17 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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India's Ancient Past
R.S. Sharma
4.12 average rating, · 1.4k ratings
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Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire
Ira Mukhoty
4.24 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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Mahayoddha Kalki: Sword of Shiva
Kevin Missal
4.00 average rating, · 1.3k ratings
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A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1: 1469-1839
Khushwant Singh
4.17 average rating, · 1.1k ratings
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