Indic Book List
“What is a good book to read about ______ ?” –
This is the most common question I am asked on social-media. In a country where narrative laden books written by Marxist historians are the norm, finding the truth can be a tedious task. This Indic Book List, I hope, will make this task easier. This is in no way an exhaustive list, but merely a collection of books I personally have read and gained from. Hopefully, this should act as an intellectual springboard for you !
P.s. Everything is in alphabetical order. Links are included for books that are free. This list will be continously updated.
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Christianity
Colonialism
Fiction
Geopolitics
History
Indic Thought
Indus Valley
Islam
Kashmir
Leftxism
Partition of India
Politics
Sanskriti
Christianity
Jesus, Interrupted by Bart D. Ehrman
The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
What Every Hindu should know about Christianity by Kalavai Venkat
Colonialism
Education as Cultural imperialism by Martin Carnoy
India That Is Bharat by J. Sai Deepak
Sati: Evangelicals, Baptist Missionaries, and the Changing Colonial Discourse by Meenakshi Jain
The Beautiful Tree by Dharmpal
Fiction
Aadha Ganv by Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza
Aavarana by S.L. Bhyrappa
Dardpur by Kshama Kaul
Who Painted My Money White? by Sree Iyer
Geopolitics
Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding by Husain Haqqani
Military Plight of Pakistan by M.N. Gulati
The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide by Gary Bass
The Culture of Critique by Kevin B. MacDonald
The End of History and the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
The Invisible Government by David Wise
To End A War by Richard Holbrook
The World Economy by Angus Maddison
History
A History of South India by K.A. Nilakanta Sastri
Ancient India by R.C. Majumdar
Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan by James Tod
Bakhar of Panipat by Raghunath Yadav
Flight of Deities and Rebirth of Temples by Meenakshi Jain
Hindu Pad Padshahi by Veer Savarkar
Hindu Temples: What Happened to Them by Sitaram Goel
Indian Resistance to Early Muslim Invaders Upto 1206 A.D by Ram Gopal Mishra
Land of Seven Rivers by Sanjeev Sanyal
Shivaji & His times by Jadunath Sarkar
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian history by Veer Savarkar
Solstice at Panipat by Uday S. Kulkarni
Shri Shiv Bharat by Parmanand Govind Newaskar
The History and Culture of the Indian People by R.C. Majumdar
The History of India as Told by its own Historians by Elliott & Dawson
The India They Saw by Meenakshi Jain
The Sultanate of Delhi by A.L. Srivastava
Veer vinod by Kaviraj Shyamal Das
Indic Thought
Being Different : An Indian Challenge To Western Universalism by Rajiv Malhotra
Defence of Hindu Society by Sitaram Goel
How I Became A Hindu by Sitaram Goel
Hindutva : Who Is A hindu ? by Veer Savarkar
Hindu Sikh Relationship by Ram Swarup
Hindu Society Under Siege by Sitaram Goel
My Transportation to Life by Veer Savarkar
On Hinduism by Ram Swarup
Sanskrit Non-Translatables : The Importance of Sanskritizing English by Rajiv Malhotra
The Eleven Pictures of Time: The Physics, Philosophy, and Politics of Time Beliefs by C.K. Raju
The Rigveda : A Historical Analysis by Shrikant G. Talgeri
Indus Valley
Early city-states in south Asia : Comparing the Harappan phase and the Early Historic period by Jonathan Kenoyer
Glaciological & Geological Source of Vedic Saraswati in the Himalayas by Puri & Varma
Hydrology and Water Resources of India by S.K. Jain
The ancient Indus Valley by Jane McIntosh
The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture : The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate by Edwin Bryant
The Lost River : On the trail of the Sarasvati by Michel Danino
The Lost Sarasvati and the Indus civilisation by S.P. Gupta
The Saraswati Flows on: the Continuity of Indian Culture by B.B. Lal
The Transformation of the Indus Civilization by Gregory L. Possehl
Islam
A Simple Kuran by Bill Warner
Among The Believers by V.S. Naipaul
Early Islamic Qiblas by Dan Gibson
God’s Caliph by Patricia Crone
Hagarism by Patricia Crone & Michael Cook
Islamic Jihad : A Legacy Of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, And Slavery by M.A. Khan
Inside the Kingdom: My Life in Saudi Arabia by Carmen Bin Laden
Last Girl : My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic State by Nadia Murda
Measuring Mohammed by Bill Warner
Nahj al-Balagha by Ali ibn Abi Talib
Quranic Concept of War by Gen. S.K. Malik
Understanding Mohammed by Ali Sina
Tafseer al-Qur’an al-‘Azeem by Ibn Kathir
The World of Fatwas or The Sharia In Action by Arun Shourie
The War of Ideas: Jihadism against Democracy by Walid Phares
KAshmir
Autobiography by Karan Singh
My frozen turbulence in Kashmir by Jagmohan
War & diplomacy in Kashmir 1947/48 by Chandrashekhar Dasgupta
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LeftXism
1984 by George Orwell
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
Partition of India
Creating a New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala
Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre
Guilty Men of India’s Partition by Ram Manohar Lohia
History of The Freedom Movement in India by R.C. Majumdar
Muslaman aur sharnarthi by Sardar Patel
Muslim League Attacks on Sikhs & Hindus in The Punjab 1947 by Gurbachan Singh Talib
Pakistan or the partition of India by B.R. Ambedkar
Pathway to India’s Partition by Bimla Prasad
Rape of Rawalpindi by Prabodh Chandra
Stern Reckoning by Gopaldas Khosla
The Sindh Story by Dada Kewalram Ratanmal Malkani
The Tragic Story of Partition by H.V. Sheshadri
Politics
Government from Inside by N.V. Gadgil
Half Lion : How P.V. Narasimha Rao Transformed India by Vinay Sitapati
Savarkar: Echoes from a Forgotten Past, 1883–1924 by Vikram Sampath
Savarkar: A contested legacy, 1924-1966 by Vikram Sampath
The Battle for Rama: Case of the Temple at Ayodhya by Meenakshi Jain
Unbreaking India: Decisions on Article 370 and the CAA by Sanjay Dixit
Sanskriti
Sanskrit Swayam Shikshak by Damodar Satvalekar
The Bhagavad Gita by Bibek Debroy