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  Imagining India: The Idea of a Nation Renewed

  by Nandan Nilekani

  A visionary look at the evolution and future of India by a preeminent business leader India’s recent economic boom—similar in scope to that of the United States during the early 1990s or Europe’s during the 1970s—has triggered tremendous social, political, and cultural change. The result is a country that, while managing incredible economic growth, has also begun to fully inhabit its role on the world political... (more)
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  Ignited Minds: Unleashing the Power Within India

  by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

  When A.P.J. Abdul Kalam wrote India 2020: A Vision for the New Millennium with Y.S. Rajan in 1998, little did they expect the magnitude of the response they would get. The idea that India could actually be a developed nation in a short time rather than remain condemned to a subsistence diet of marginal improvements and promises struck a chord among readers. The book continues to be a bestseller. Ignited... (more)
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  Ideology and Social Science India

  by Andre?. Be?teille

  50 essays on wide range of essays on caste, unity of culture, secularism.would be useful introd. text
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  Temptations of the West: How to be modern in India, Pakistan , Tibet and beyond

  by Pankaj Mishra

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  Dhirubhaism

  by A G Krishnamurthy

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  India: From Midnight to the Millennium and Beyond

  by Shashi Tharoor

  "Few books in recent years, if any, offer such a comprehensive overview of what ails India, its politicians and its people; and few writers, apart from Nirad Chaudhury and V. S. Naipaul, benefit so obviously from the perspective Tharoor offers, that of an Indian with a profound empathy for his native culture, combined with the insight made possible by following India's progress from afar." -- New York Times "A... (more)