The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Chennai

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
14787 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14946 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14983 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14983 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15897 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15897 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15897 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15897 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
17117 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17117 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17117 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17117 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
16764 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17117 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17117 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17117 Tamil David Dean Shulman 2016 Unknown English
17117 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17117 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17117 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17117 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17117 India John Keay 2000 British English
17117 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17117 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17117 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17117 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17117 A Concise History Of South India Noboru Karashima 2014 Unknown English
17117 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17117 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17117 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17117 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English