The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Karnataka

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
6860 My Guru And His Disciple Christopher Isherwood 1980 British English
7216 Samskara U.R. Ananthamurthy 1965 Indian Kannada
8816 Loot Tania James 2023 Unknown English
8915 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva 1988 Indian English
14025 Miss New India Bharati Mukherjee 2011 American English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14985 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14985 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15915 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15915 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15915 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15915 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15915 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
17161 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17161 Collected Plays Mahesh Dattani 2000 Indian English
17161 Collected Stories Shashi Deshpande 2003 Indian English
17161 The Collected Poems Of A.K. Ramanujan A.K. Ramanujan 1995 Indian English
17161 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17161 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17161 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17161 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17161 I Too Had A Love Story Ravinder Singh 2007 Indian Hindi
16806 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17161 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17161 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17161 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17161 Poems Of Love And War A.K. Ramanujan 1985 Indian Tamil
17161 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17161 Everybody Loves A Good Drought Palagummi Sainath 1996 Indian English
17161 The Remembered Village M. N. Srinivas 1978 Indian English
17161 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17161 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17161 India John Keay 2000 British English
17161 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17161 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17161 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17161 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17161 A Concise History Of South India Noboru Karashima 2014 Unknown English
17161 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17161 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17161 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17161 The Bangalore Detectives Club Harini Nagendra 2022 Indian English
17161 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English