Best Books on Indian History

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Best Books on Indian History
This has both works of popular history as well as others being part of the history curriculum.

This list was originally published in 2023 and was added to this site almost 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
15920 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
6673 India After Gandhi Ramachandra Guha 2007 Indian English
17172 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
14949 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14986 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14986 The Last Mughal William Dalrymple 2006 British English
17172 India John Keay 2000 British English
17172 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17172 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
15920 Age Of Nandas And Mauryas K.A. Nilakanta Sastri 1952 Unknown English
3406 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
17172 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
15920 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
17172 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
14986 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
17172 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17172 A Concise History Of South India Noboru Karashima 2014 Unknown English
17172 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17172 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
15920 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
17172 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17172 Ancient Cities Of The Indus Valley Civilization Jonathan Mark Kenoyer 1998 Unknown English