The Greatest Books of All Time Set in West Bengal

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
4687 The Gospel Of Sri Ramakrishna Mahendranath Gupta 1902 Indian Bengali
7215 Pather Panchali Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay 1929 Indian Bengali
8913 Staying Alive Vandana Shiva 1988 Indian English
9042 A Simple Path Mother Teresa 1995 Unknown English
10998 City Of Joy Dominique Lapierre 1985 French French
11130 Imaginary Homelands Salman Rushdie 1991 British English
11386 The Nemesis Manoranjan Byapari 2018 Unknown Bengali
11543 Half The Sky Nicholas Kristof 2009 American English
11661 Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World Ramachandra Guha 2018 Indian English
13771 Flood Of Fire Amitav Ghosh 2015 Indian English
14788 The Autobiography Of An Unknown Indian Nirad C. Chaudhuri 1951 Indian English
14788 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 Into The Silence Wade Davis 2011 Canadian English
14984 The Collector Of Worlds Iliya Troyanov 2006 German German
14984 The Great Partition Yasmin Khan 2007 British English
14984 The History And Culture Of The Indian People R. C. Majumdar Indian English
15899 Tattvachintamani Gaṅgeśa 1321 Indian Sanskrit
15899 Gadādhara's Śaktivāda Gadādharabhaṭṭācārya 1650 Unknown Sanskrit
15899 The Agrarian System Of Mughal India Irfan Habib 1963 Indian English
15899 An Introduction To The Study Of Indian History D. D. Kosambi 1956 Indian English
15899 A History Of India Romila Thapar 1966 Indian English
15899 An Anthology Of Sanskrit Court Poetry Vidyakara, Daniel Ingalls 1957 Unknown Sanskrit
15899 Discovery Of India Jawaharlal Nehru 1946 Indian English
15899 Prehistoric India Panchanan Mitra 1923 Unknown English
16532 Handbook Of The Birds Of India And Pakistan Salim Ali, S. Dillon Ripley 1968 Multiple English
17120 An Atlas Of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008 Indian English
17120 Indian Love Poems Meena Alexander 2005 Unknown English
17120 The Picador Book Of Modern Indian Literature Amit Chaudhuri 2001 Indian English
17120 New Writing In India Adil Jussawalla 1974 Indian English
17120 The Oxford India Anthology Of Twelve Modern Indian Poets Arvind Krishna Mehrotra 1992 Indian English
17120 Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets R. Parthasarathy 1976 Indian English
17120 The Vintage Book Of Indian Writing 1947 1997 Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth J. West 1997 Multiple English
17120 The Perishable Empire Meenakshi Mukherjee 2000 Indian English
16768 India Jagdish N. Bhagwati, Padma Desai 1970 Unknown English
17120 The Idea Of India Sunil Khilnani 1997 Indian English
17120 A Taste Of India Madhur Jaffrey 1985 British English
17120 Politics In India Rajni Kothari 1982 Indian English
17120 India Unbound Gurcharan Das 2000 Indian English
17120 Poverty And Famines Amartya Sen 1981 Indian English
17120 Elementary Aspects Of Peasant Insurgency In Colonial India Ranajit Guha 1984 Indian English
17120 Our Films, Their Films Satyajit Ray 1983 Indian English
17120 Indian Food K. T. Achaya 1994 Indian English
17120 Everybody Loves A Good Drought Palagummi Sainath 1996 Indian English
17120 Women Writing In India Susie Tharu, K. Lalita 1993 Unknown English
17120 Recasting Women Kumkum Sangari, Sudesh Vaid 1990 Unknown English
17120 The Argumentative Indian Amartya Sen 2005 Unknown English
17120 India John Keay 2000 British English
17120 From Plassey To Partition And After Sekhar Bandyopadhyay 2004 Indian English
17120 History Of Medieval India Radhey Shyam Chaurasia 2002 Indian English
17120 A Corner Of A Foreign Field Ramachandra Guha 2003 Indian English
17120 Prehistory And Protohistory Of India VK Jain 2006 Indian English
17120 Ancient History Of India Charles J. Naegele Unknown English
17120 A Textbook Of Medieval Indian History Sailendra Nath Sen 2010 Indian English
17120 A History Of Medieval India Satish Chandra 2007 Indian English
17120 The Other Side Of Silence Urvashi Butalia 1998 Indian English
17120 Victory Colony, 1950 Bhaswati Ghosh 2020 Unknown English
17120 The Pity Of Partition Ayesha Jalal 2013 English
17120 India’s Techade Nalin Mehta 2023 Unknown English
17120 A Small Sacrifice For An Enormous Happiness Jai Chakrabarti 2023 Unknown English
17120 In Light Of India Octavio Paz 1995 Mexican Spanish
17120 History Of Modern India Bipan Chandra Indian English
17120 A Burning Megha Majumdar 2020 American English