60 Essential English-Language Works of Modern Indian Literature

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17008 The Veiled Suite Agha Shahid Ali 2009 American English
17008 Corridor Sarnath Banerjee 2004 Indian English
17008 The Simoqin Prophecies Samit Basu 2003 Indian English
17008 The Manticore's Secret Samit Basu 2005 Indian English
17008 The Unwaba Revelations Samit Basu 2007 Indian English
14901 English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee 1988 Indian English
17008 Red Earth And Pouring Rain Vikram Chandra 1995 Indian English
14901 A Strange And Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri 1991 Indian English
17008 Arzee The Dwarf Chandrahas Choudhury 2009 Indian English
17008 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17008 Solo Rana Dasgupta 2009 British English
17008 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17008 The Point Of Return Siddhartha Deb 2003 Indian English
14165 In Custody Anita Desai 1984 Indian English
2950 The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai 2006 Indian English
17008 Collected Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17008 The Circle Of Reason Amitav Ghosh 1986 Indian English
17008 The Glassblower's Breath Sunetra Gupta 1993 British English
17008 The Burnt Forehead Of Max Saul Indrajit Hazra 2000 Indian English
17008 Difficult Daughters Manju Kapur 1998 Indian English
17008 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
14901 Jejuri Arun Kolatkar 1976 Indian English
1771 Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri 1999 American English
17008 The Lie Of Dawns Jayanta Mahapatra 2000 Indian English
17008 Such A Long Journey Rohinton Mistry 1991 Canadian English
17008 Collected Poems, 1954–2004 Dom Moraes 2004 Indian English
14165 The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee 1988 Indian English
17008 The Collected Poems Of A.K. Ramanujan A.K. Ramanujan 1995 Indian English
17008 An Atlas Of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008 Indian English
358 The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy 1997 Indian English
64 Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie 1981 Indian English
17008 Postmarked India Sudeep Sen 1997 Indian English
12222 The Golden Gate Vikram Seth 1986 Indian English
13464 Train To Pakistan Khushwant Singh 1956 Indian English
17008 The Alchemy Of Desire Tarun J. Tejpal 2005 Indian English
3401 The Great Indian Novel Shashi Tharoor 1989 Indian English
17008 Written Forever Rukun Advani 2014 Unknown Unknown
17008 Indian Love Poems Meena Alexander 2005 Unknown English
17008 Indivisible Neelanjana Banerjee, Summi Kaipa, Pireeni Sundaralingam 2010 Multiple English
17008 Language For A New Century Nathalie Handal, Tina Chang, Ravi Shankar 2008 Multiple English
17008 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17008 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17008 Away Amitava Kumar 2003 Unknown English
17008 Speaking For Myself Sukrita Paul Kumar, Malashri Lal 2010 Unknown English
17008 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17008 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17008 A Matter Of Taste Nilanjana S. Roy 2004 Indian Unknown
17008 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17008 The Harper Collins Book Of English Poetry Sudeep Sen 2012 Unknown English
14701 The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1951 Indian English
7935 My Story Kamala Das 1976 Indian English
17008 Postcolonial Theory Leela Gandhi 1998 Indian English
17008 The Imam And The Indian Amitav Ghosh 1992 Indian English
17008 The Global Soul Pico Iyer 2000 British English
17008 Poetry, Politics And Culture Akshaya Kumar 2009 Unknown English
5974 Maximum City Suketu Mehta 2004 American English
17008 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17008 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
14901 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
17008 Diddi: My Mother's Voice Ira Pande 2005 Indian English
17008 On Balance Leila Seth 2003 Indian English
17008 My Own Country Abraham Verghese 1994 American English