The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Tamil Nadu

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
3637 The Life Divine Sri Aurobindo 1942 Indian English
4671 The Spiritual Teaching Of Ramana Maharshi Ramana Maharshi 1972 Indian Tamil
6380 A Voyage Round The World Georg Forster 1777 German German
6873 Povedal Mi Veštec Tiziano Terzani 2002 Italian Italian
8913 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva 1988 Indian English
10808 The Gypsy Goddess Meena Kandasamy 2014 Indian English
14787 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14947 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14984 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14984 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15901 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15901 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15901 Caste, Class And Power André Beteille 1965 Indian English
15901 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15901 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15901 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
17122 Wings Of Fire APJ Abdul Kalam 1999 Indian English
17122 Indian Nocturne Antonio Tabucchi 1984 Italian Italian
17122 The Collected Poems Of A.K. Ramanujan A.K. Ramanujan 1995 Indian English
17122 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17122 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17122 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17122 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17122 Inner Engineering Sadhguru 2016 Indian English
16771 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17122 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17122 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17122 Tamil David Dean Shulman 2016 Unknown English
17122 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17122 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17122 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17122 Poems Of Love And War A.K. Ramanujan 1985 Indian Tamil
17122 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17122 Everybody Loves A Good Drought Palagummi Sainath 1996 Indian English
17122 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17122 The Flaming Feet And Other Essays D. R. Nagaraj 2011 Indian English
17122 India John Keay 2000 British English
17122 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17122 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17122 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17122 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17122 A Concise History Of South India Noboru Karashima 2014 Unknown English
17122 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17122 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17122 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17122 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17122 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English