The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Kolkata

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
1129 The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri 2003 American English
3386 The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh 1988 Indian English
3510 Song Of Kali Dan Simmons 1985 American English
4688 The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna Mahendranath Gupta 1902 Indian Bengali
6508 Memories of Rain Sunetra Gupta 1992 Indian English
9044 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
11002 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11134 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11389 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11545 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11663 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
13552 The Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri 2013 American English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14985 A Strange And Sublime Address Amit Chaudhuri 1991 Indian English
14985 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14985 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14985 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15916 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15916 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15916 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15916 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15916 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
16550 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
17163 The Blue Bedspread Raj Kamal Jha 1999 Indian English
17163 Indian Love Poems Meena Alexander 2005 Unknown English
17163 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17163 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17163 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17163 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17163 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
16808 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17163 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17163 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17163 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17163 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17163 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17163 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17163 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17163 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English
17163 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17163 India John Keay 2000 British English
17163 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17163 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17163 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17163 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17163 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17163 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17163 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17163 Victory Colony, 1950 Bhaswati Ghosh 2020 Unknown English
17163 Midnight's Furies Nisid Hajari 2015 Unknown English
17163 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17163 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17163 A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness Jai Chakrabarti 2023 Unknown English
17163 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English
17163 A Burning Megha Majumdar 2020 American English