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Famous Books by Indian Authors Books

Author

A Bend in the river

V S Naipaul

A Brush with Life

Satish Gujral

A Conceptual Encyclopaedia of Guru Granth Sahib

S S Kohli

A Foreign Policy for India

I K Gujral

A Himalayan Love Story

Namita Gokhale

A Nation Flawed-Lesson from Indian History

P N Chopra

A Peep into the Past

Vasant Navrekar

A Possible India

Partha Chatterjee

A Psychoanalysis of the Prophets

Abdulla Kamal

A Reveolutionary Life

Laxmi Sehgal

A Secular Agenda

Arun Shourie

A Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth

Acoession to Extinction

D R Mankekar

Across Borders, Fifty-years of India’s Foreign Policy

J N Dixit

Adhe Adhure

Mohan Rakesh

After the Dark Night

S M Ali

Agni Pariksha

Acharya Tulsi

Agni Veena

Kazi Nazrul Islam

Ain-i-Akbari

Abul Fazal

Ajatshatru

Jai Shankar Prasad

Akbarnama

Abul Fazal

Amar Kosh

Amar Singh

An Autobiography

Jawaharlal Nehru

An idealist View of Life

Dr S Radhakrishnan

Anandmath

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Anatomy of a Flawed inheritance

J N Dixit

Anguish of Deprived

Lakshmidhar Mishra

Answer to History

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Area of Darkness

V S Naipaul

Arion and the Dolphin

Vikram Seth

Arthashastra

Kautilya

Ashtadhyayi

Panini

Asia and Western Dominance

K M Panikkar

Assassination of a Prime Minister

S Anandram

Assignment Colombo

J N Dixit

Atoms of Hope

Mohan Sundara Rajan

Autobiography of an Unknown Indian

Nirad C Chaudhuri

Backward Place

Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

Bandicoot Run

Manohar Malgonkar

Bang-i-Dara

Mohammad lqbal

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Beginning of the Beginning

Acharya Rajneesh

Bend in the Ganges

Manohar Malgonkar

Between the Lines

Kuldip Nayar

Bewildered India-Identity, Pluralism, Discord

Rasheedud-din Khan

Beyond Boundaries: A Memoire

Swaraj Paul

Beyond Modernisation, Beyond Self

Sisir Kumar Ghose

Bhagwat Gita

Veda Vyas

Bharal Aur Europe

Nirmal Verma

Bharat Bharati

Maithili Sharan Gupta

Bharaitya Parampara Ke Mool Swar

Govind Chandra Pande

Bisarjan

R N Tagore

Blind Men of Hindoostan-indo-Pak Nuclear War

Gen Krishnaswamy Sundarji

Bliss was it in that Dawn

Minoo Masani

Borders & Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition

Ritu Menon & Kamla Bhasin

Bostaan

Sheikh Saadi

Bread, Beauty and Revolution

Khwaja Ahmed Abbas

Breaking the Silence

Anees Jung

Breakthrough

Gen Moshe Dayan

Bride for the Sahib and Other Stories

Khushwant Singh

Bridge’s Book of Beauty

Mulk Raj Anand

Brishbikkha

Bankim Chandra Chatterji

Britain’s True History

Prem Bhatia

Broken Wings

Sarojini Naidu

Bubble

Mulk Raj Anand

Buddha Charitam

Ashvaghosha

Bunch of Old Letters

Jawaharlal Nehru

By God’s Decree

Kapil Dev

Canvass of Life

Sheila Gujral

Chandalika

Rabindranath Tagore

Chemmeen

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Chidambara

Sumitranandan Pant

Chikaveera Rajendra

Masti Venkatesh lyengar

Chinese Betrayal

B N Mullick

Chitra

Rabindranath Tagore

Choma’s Drum

K Shivaram Karanath

Chithirappaavai

P V Akilandam

Confessions of a Lover

Mulk Raj Anand

Confrontation with Pakistan

Gen B M Kaul

Conquest of Self

Mahatma Gandhi

Continent of Circle

Nirad C Chaudhuri

Coolie

Mulk Raj Anand

Court Dancer

Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Moon

Rabindranath Tagore

Crescent Over Kashmir

Anil Maheshwari

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Crisis into Chaos

E M S Namboodiripad

Crossing the Sacred Line-Women’s

Abhilasha Kumari, Sabina

Search for Political Power

Abhilasha & Sabina Kidwai

Crown and the Loincloth

Chaman Nahal

Cuckold

Kiran Nagar Kar

Culture in the Vanity Bag

Nirad C Chaudhuri

Curtain Raisers

K Natwar Singh

Dark Room

R K Narayan

Dashkumar Charitam

Dandi

Daughter of the East

Benazir Bhutto

Day in Shadow

Nayantara Sehgal

Days of My Yers

H P Nanda

Death of a City

Amrita Pritam

Death-The Supreme Friend

Kakasaheb Kalelkar

Decline and Fall of Indira Gandhi

D R Mankekar and Kamala Mankekar

Democracy Redeemed

V K Narsimhan

Devadas

Sarat Chandra Chatterjee

Dharmashastra

Manu

Discovery of India

Jawaharlal Nehru

Distant Drums

Manohar Malgonkar

Distant Neighbours

Kuldip Nayar

Divine Comedy

A Dante

Divine Life

Swami Sivananda

Don’t Laugh-We are Police

Bishan Lal Vohra

Dream in Hawaii

Bhabani Bhattacharya

Durgesh Nandini

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Dynamics of Social Change

Chandra Shekhar

Earth in the Balance: Forging a New

Albert Gore

East of Eden

B N Mullick

East West

Salman Rushdie

Economic Planning of India

Ashok Mehta

Economics of the Third World

S K Ray

Eight Lives

Rajmohan Gandhi

End of an Era

C S Pandit

English August

Upamanyu Chatterjee

Essays On Gita

Aurobindo Ghosh

Eternal Himalayas

Major H P S Ahluwalia

Eternal India

Indira Gandhi

Eternity

Anwar Shaikh

Faces to Everest

Maj H P S Ahluwalia

Facts are Facts

Khan Abdul Wali Khan

Faith & Fire: A Way Within

Madhu Tandon

Fall of a Sparrow

Salim Ali

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Farewell to a Ghost

Manoj Das

Fasana-i-Azad

Ratan Nath Sarkar

Flames from the Ashes

P D Tandon

Food, Nutrition and Poverty in India

V K R V Rao

Forbidden Sea

Tara Ali Baig

Fortynine Days

Amrita Pritam

Freedom Behind Bars

Sheikh Mohd Abdullah

Friends and Foes

Sheikh Mujibur Rehman

Friends, Not Masters

Ayub Khan

From india to America

S Chandrashekhar

From Rajpath to Lokpath

Vijaya Raja Scindia

Future of NPT

Savita Pande

Ganadevata

Tara Shankar Bandopadhyaya

Gardener

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Geeta Govind

Jaya Dev

Ghasiram Kotwal

Vijay Tendulkar

Gita Rahasya

Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Gitanjali

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Glimpses of Indian Ocean

Z A Quasim

Glimpses of World History

Jawaharlal Nehru

Goa

Asif Currimbhoy

Godan

Munshi Prem Chand

Godrej: A Hundred Years

B K Karanjia

Golden Gate

Vikram Seth

Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu

Gora

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Great Depression of 1990

Ravi Batra

Guide

R K Narayan

Gul-e-Naghma

Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri

Gulistan Boston

Sheikh Saadi

Gulzari Lal Nanda: A Peep

Promilla Kalhan

in the Service of the People

Promilla Kalhan

Gurusagaram

O V Vijayan

Harsha Charita

Bana Bhatt

Harvest

Majula Padmanabhan

Heat and Dust

Ruth Prawer Jhabwala

Heavy Weather

P G Wodehouse

Henry Esmond

Thackeray

Heir Apparent

Dr Karan Singh

Higher than Hope

Fatima Meer

Himalayan Blunder

Brig J P Dalvi

Hindu View of Life

Dr S Radhakrishnan

History of Hindu Chemistry

Sir P C Ray

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Hitopadesh

R K Narayan

Hindi Sahitya Aur Samvedna Ka Vikas

R S Chaturvedi

Hind Swaraj

M K Gandhi

Hindu Civilisation

J M Barrie

Hinduism

Nirad C Chaudhary

Hungry Stones

Rabindra Nath Tagore

I am not an Island

K A Abbas

I Dare

Parmesh Dangwal

I follow the Mahatma

K M Munshi

I Muse; Therefore I am

V N Narayanan

Idols

Sunil Gavaskar

In the Light of the Black Sun

Rohit Manchanda

In the Shadow of Pines

Mandeep Rai

India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & Dr Y S Rajan

India-A Wounded Civilisation

V S Naipaul

India-From Curzon to Nehru and After

Durga Dass

India-From Midnight to the Millennium

Shashi Tharoor

India-Independence Festival (1947-1997)

Raghu Rai

India in Transition

Prof Jagdish Bhagwati

India is for Sale

Chitra Subramaniam

India of Our Dreams

M V Kamath

India Today

Rajni Palme Dutt

Indian Home Rule

M K Gandhi

Indian Philosophy

Dr S Radhakrishnan

India’s Culture the State the Arts & Beyond

B P Singh

India’s Economic Crisis

Dr Bimal Jalan

Essay’s for Manmohan Singh

I J Ahluwalia & M D Little

Indian Arms Bazaar

Maj-Gen, Pratap Narain

India Divided

Rajendra Prasad

India Wins Freedom

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Indian Muslims

Prof Mohd Mujeeb

India, the Critial Years

Kuldip Nayar

Indira Gandhi’s Emergence and Style

Nayantara Sehgal

Indira’s India

S Nihal Singh

Inside the CBI

Joginder Singh

Insider

P V Narsimha Rao

Intelligence Services

Dr Bhashyam Kasturi

It is Always Possible

Kiran Bedi

Jai Somnath

K M Munshi

Jaguar Smile

Salman Rushdie

Jajar, Churashir Maa

Mahashweta Devi

Jankijeevanam

Prof Rajendra Mishra

Jawaharlal Nehru-A Communicator

Damodaran, A. K.

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& Democratic Leader

A K Damodran

Jawaharlal Nehru, Rebel and Statesman

B R Nanda

Junglee Girl

Ginu Kamani

Kadambari

Bana Bhatt

Kamadhenu

Kubernath Ray

Kamasutra

Vatsyayan

Kagaz Te Kanwas

Amrita Pritam

Kamayani

Jai Shankar Pandit

Kali Aandhi

Kamleshwar

Kanthapura

Raja Rao

Kanyadaan

Vijay Tendulkar

Kapal Kundala

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Kashmir-A Tale of Shame

Hari Jaisingh

Kashmir-Behind the Vale

M J Akbar

Kashmir Diary: Psychology of Militancy

Gen Arjun Ray

Kashmir-The Wounded Valley

Ajit Bhattacharjee

Kashmir in the Crossfire

Victoria Shaffield

Kashmir A Tragedy of Errors

Tavleen Singh

Katghare Main

Ram Sharan Joshi

Kayakalp

Munshi Prem Chand

Kayar

Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai

Keepers of the Keys

Milan Kundera

King of Dark Chamber

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Kiratarjuniya

Bharavi

Kitni Navon Main Kitni Bar

S H Vatsyayan

Koraner Nari

Taslima Nasreen

Kore Kagaz

Amrita Pritam

Kulliyat

Ghalib

Kumar Sambhava

Kalidas

Lajja

Taslima Nasreen

Lal Bahadur Shastri

C P Srivastava

Last Phase

Pyare Lal

Law, Lawyers & Judges

H R Bhardwaj

Laws Versus Justice

V R Krishna Iyer

Legacy of a Divided Nation

Prof Mushirul Hasan

Life Divine

Aurobindo Ghosh

Life is Elsewhere

Milan Kundera

Lipika

Rabindranath Tagore

Lost Child

Mulk Raj Anand

Love and Longing in Bombay

Vikram Chandra

Love in A Blue Time

Hanif Khureshi

Love, Truth and A Little Malice

Khushwant Singh

Mahabharata

Vyasa

Malati Madhav

Bhavabhuti

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Magnificent Maharaja

K Natwar Singh

Mahatma Gandhi

Girija Kumar Mathur

Malavikagnimitra

Kalidas

Manviya Sanskriti Ke Rachnatmak Aayam

Prof Raghuvansh

Many Worlds

K P S Menon

Mati Matal

Gopinath Mohanty

Meghdoot

Kalidas

Memoris of a Bystander: Life in Diplomacy

lqbal Akhund

Men Who Killed Gandhi

Manohar Malgonkar

Meri Rehen Meri Manzil

Krishna Puri

Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie

Million Mutinies Now

V S Naipaul

Missed Oppertunites: Indo-Pak War 1965

Maj-Gen, Lakshman Singh

Mistaken identity

Nayantara Sehgal

Modern South Asia: History, Culture,

Sugata Bose, Ayesha Jalal

Political Economy

Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal

Modernity Morality And The Mahatma

Madhuri Santhanam Sondhi

Mondays on Dark Night of Moon

Kirin Narayan

Mookhajjiva Kanasugalu

K Shivram Karanth

Moor’s Last Sigh

Salman Rushdie

Mrinalini

Bankim Chandra Charrerjee

Mritunjaya

Shivaji Sawant

Mrs Gandhi’s Second Reign

Arun Shourie

Mudra rakshasa

Vishakhadatta

Mughal Maharajas And The Mahatma

K R N Swami

Muslim Law and the Constitution

A M Bhattacharjea

My Days

R K Narayan

My Early Life

M K Gandhi

My Experiment With Truth

M K Gandhi

My Life and Times

V V Giri

My Own Boswell

M Hidayatullah

My India

S Nihal Singh

My Music, My Love

Ravi Shankar

My Presidential Years

Ramaswamy Venkataraman

My Truth

Indira Gandhi

My South Block Years

J N Dixit

My Struggles

E K Nayanar

My Prison Diary

J P Narayan

Naari

Humayun Azad

Naganandan

Harsha Vardhana

Naku Thanthi

D R Bendre

Nai Duniya Ko Salam & Pathor Ki Dewar

Ali Sardar Jafri

Naivedyam (The Offering)

N Balamani Amma

Naked Triangle

Balwant Gargi

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Nehru Family and Sikhs

Harbans Singh

Netaji-Dead or Alive

Samar Guha

New Dimensions of India’s Foreign Policy

Atal Behari Vajpayee

Nice Guys Finish Second

B K Nehru

Nisheeth

Uma Shankar Joshi

Niti-Sataka

Bhartrihari

Nirbashita Narir Kabita

Taslima Nasreen

Non-Violence in Peace and War

M K Gandhi

Nuclear India

G G Mirchandani and P K S

Nurturing Development

Ismail Serageldin

Odakkuzal

G Shankara Kurup

One-eyed Uncle

Laxmikant Mahapatra

One World to Share

Sridath Ramphal

Operation Bluestar-the True Story

Lt-Gen K S Brar

Our Films, Their Films

Satyajit Ray

Our India

Minoo Masani

Out of Dust

F D Karaka

Padmavati

Malik Mohammed Jayasi

Painter of Signs

R K Narayan

Pakistan in the 20th Century

Lawrence Ziring

Pakistan Papers

Mani Shankar Aiyer

Panchagram

Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya

Panchtantra

Vishnu Sharma

Pakistan Cut to Size

D R Mankekar

Passage to England

Nirad C Chaudhuri

Past Forward

G R Narayanan

Pather Panchali

Bibhuti Bhushan Bandyopadhyaya

Pinjar

Amrita Pritam

Plans for Departure

Nayantara Sehgal

Portrait of India

Ved Mehta

Post Office

Rabindranath Tagore

Prathama Pratishruti

Ashapurna Devi

Prem Pachisi

Prem Chand

Premonitions

P N Haksar

Price of Partition

Rafiq Zakaria

Prison and Chocolate Cake

Nayantara Sehgal

Prison Diary

Jayaprakash Narayan

Prisoner’s Scrapbook

L K Advani

Prithviraj Raso

Chand Bardai

Profiles & Letters

K Natwar Singh

Punjab, The Knights of Falsehood

K P S Gill

Quest for Conscience

Madhu Dandavate

Radharani

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

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Raghuvamsa

Kalidas

Rajtarangini

Kalhana

Ram Charit Manas

Tulsidas

Ramayana

Maharishi Valmiki (in Sanskrit)

Ramayana Dharshanam

K V Puttappa

Rangbhoomi

Prem Chand

Rang-e-Shairi

Raghupati Sahai ‘Firaq’ Gorakhpuri

Ratnavali

Harsha Vardhan

Ravi Paar (Across the Ravi)

Gulzar

Rediscovering Gandhi

Yogesh Chadha

Reminiscences of the Nehru Age

M O Mathai

Return of the Aryans

Bhagwan S Gidwani

Returning to the Source

Acharya Rajneesh

Revenue Stamp

Amrita Pritam

Rich Like Us

Nayantara Sehgal

Ritu Ka Pehla Phool

Vijendra

Ritu Samhara

Kalidas

River Sutra

Gita Mehta

Road to Freedom

K K Khullar

Rukh Te Rishi

Harbhajan Singh

Sader-i-Riyasat

Karan Singh

Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims

Rafiq Zakaria

Sakharam Binder

Vijay Tendulkar

Saket

Maithili Sharan Gupta

Satyartha Prakash

Swami Dayanand

Satanic Verses

Salman Rushdie

Savitri

Aurobindo Ghosh

Sceptred Flute

Sarojini Naidu

Scholar Extraordinary

Nirad C Chaudhuri

Scope of Happiness

Vijayalakshmi Pandit

Search for Home

Sasthi Brata

Sense of Time

S H Vatsyayan

Seven Summers

Mulk Raj Anand

Tamas

Bhisham Sahni

Tarkash

Javed Akhtar

Tehriq-e-Mujahideen

Dr Sadiq Hussain

The Assassination

K Mohandas

The Betrayal of East Pakistan

Lt Gen A A K

The Calcutta Chromosome

Amitav Ghosh

The Career & Legend of Vasco de Gama

Sanjay Subramanyam

The Chinese Betrayal

B N Mullick

The Congress Splits

R P Rao

The Defeat or Distant Drumbeats

Bhaskar Roy

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Unhappy India

Lala Lajpat Rai

Until Darkness

Parvin Ghaffari

Utouchable

Mulk Raj Anand

Urvashi

Ramdhari Singh ‘Dinkar’

Uttar Ramcharita

Bhava Bhuti

Untold Story

Gen B M Kaul

Vanity Fair

Thackeray

Vendor of Sweets

R K Narayan

Venisamhara

Narayana Bhatt

Village by the Sea

Anita Desai

Village

Mulk Raj Anand

Vinay Patrika

Tulsidas

Virangana

Maithili Sharan Gupta

Vish Vriksha

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee

Voice of Conscience

V V Giri

Voice of Freedom

Nayantara Sehgal

Waiting for the Mahatma

R K Narayan

Walls of Glass

K A Abbas

War and No Peace Over Kashmir

Maroof Raza

War of Indian Independence

Vir Savarkar

We, Indians

Khushwant Singh

We, the People

N A Palkhivala

Widening Divide

Rafiq Zakaria

Wings of fire, an Autobiography

Dr A P J Abdul Kalam & A. Tiwari

Witness to History

Prem Bhatia

Without Fear or Favour

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy

Women and Men in My Life

Khushwant Singh

Worshipping False Gods

Arun Shourie

Wreck

Rabindra Nath Tagore

Yajnaseni

Dr Pratibha Roy

Yama

Mahadevi Verma

Yashodhara

Maithili Sharan Gupta

Yayati

V S Khandekar

Year of the Vulture

Amita Malik

Years of Pilgrimage

Dr Raja Ramanna

Yesterday and Today

K P S Menon

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto & Pakistan

Rafi Raza

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