Reading List (India)

  • The Age of Kali – William Dalrymple
  • A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
  • The Inheritance of Loss – Kiran Desai
  • Are You Experienced? – William Sutcliffe
  • Kim – Rudyard Kipling
  • Holy Cow – Sarah MacDonald
  • City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi - William Dalrymple
  • The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy• A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
  • The Life of Mahatma Gandhi – Louis Fischer
  • City of Joy – Dominique Lapierre• Curry (A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors) – Lizzie Collingham
  • A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
  • India (Insight Guides, 2004 ed)
  • South India (Insight Guides, 2005 ed)t
  • In Spite of the Gods – Edward Luce
  • No Full Stops in India – Mark Tully• India’s Unending Journey – Mark Tully
  • Midnights Children – Salman Rushdie
  • Eat Smart in India: How to Decipher the Menu, Know theMarket Foods & Embark on a Tasting Adventure – J. Peterson & I. Menon
  • Maharanis: The Lives and Times of Three Generations ofIndian Princesses – Lucy Moore
  • The Honourable Company: The History of the English EastIndia Company – John Keay
  • Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West –Beatrice Hohenegger
  • India: A History – John Keay
  • Inhaling the Mahatma – Christopher Kremmer
  • Last Mughal – William Dalrymple
  • Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox – Maggie O’Farrell
  • Namesake – Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Space Between Us – Thrity Umrigar
  • Travellers History of India – Stephen G Haw
  • Shadow of the Great Game – Narendra Singh Sarila
  • Freedom at Midnight – Dominique Lapierre
  • Buddha and the Sahibs – Charles Allen
  • Shantaram – Gregory David Roberts