Indian History
A History of Indian Philosophy – Surendranath Dasgupta (Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3)
The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
The Courtesan, the Mahatma & the Italian Brahmin – Manu S. Pillai
Modern South India – Rajmohan Gandhi
Being Different – Rajiv Malhotra
World History
The Lessons of History – Will Durant, Ariel Durant
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome – Mary Beard
A People’s History of the United States – Howard Zinn
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
The German Genius – Peter Watson
The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Richard Rhodes
The Ground on Which We Stand – Lillian W. Kay
The Second Sex – Simone de Beauvoir
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