The Greatest Books of All Time Set in Uttar Pradesh

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
735 A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth 1993 Indian English
8915 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva 1988 Indian English
12077 Basti Intizar Husain 1979 Pakistani Urdu
13186 The Once And Future Riot Joe Sacco 2025 American English
14554 Portfolios Of The Poor Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford, Orlanda Ruthven 2009 Unknown English
14589 The Good Girls Sonia Faleiro 2021 Indian English
14788 The Wonder That Was India Arthur Llewellyn Basham 1954 British English
14949 Freedom At Midnight Dominique Lapierre, Larry Collins 1975 Multiple English
14985 India: A Million Mutinies Now V. S. Naipaul 1990 British English
14985 The Last Mughal William Dalrymple 2006 British English
14985 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15916 Sunlight On A Broken Column Attia Hosain 1961 British English
15916 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
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 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15916 Age Of Nandas And Mauryas K.A. Nilakanta Sastri 1952 Unknown English
15916 Alberuni's India Al-Biruni, Edward C. Sachau 1030 Multiple Arabic
15916 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
16535 Mahabharata Ganguli, translator 1883 Indian English
17163 The Trotternama I. Allan Sealy 1988 Indian English
17163 Collected Poems, 1970 2005 Keki N. Daruwalla 2006 Indian English
17163 Looking Through Glass Mukul Kesavan 1995 Indian English
17163 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17163 Temptations Of The West Pankaj Mishra 2006 Indian English
17163 Diddi: My Mother's Voice Ira Pande 2005 Indian English
17163 On Balance Leila Seth 2003 Indian English
16808 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17163 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17163 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17163 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17163 Event, Metaphor, Memory Shahid Amin 1995 Unknown English
17163 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17163 Everybody Loves A Good Drought Palagummi Sainath 1996 Indian English
17163 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17163 Banaras Diana L. Eck 1982 Unknown English
17163 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 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 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 In Search Of The Cradle Of Civilization David Frawley, Georg Feuerstein, Subhash Kak 1995 Multiple English
17163 Age Of Vice Deepti Kapoor 2023 Unknown English
17163 The Silk Road Valerie Hansen 2012 Unknown English
17163 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17163 Courting India Nandini Das 2023 Unknown English
17163 In Light Of India Octavio Paz 1995 Mexican Spanish
17163 A Study In Scarlet / The Sign Of The Four Arthur Conan Doyle British English
17163 रश्मिरथी Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar' 1981 Indian Hindi
17163 Sita Amish Tripathi 2017 Indian English
17163 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English