SUGGESTED READING

Contemporary India

In Spite of the Gods Edward Luce (Little Brown, 2007)

If you read one other book on India, make it this one

Ideas of India Sunil Khilnani (Penguin Books, 2003)

India Divided Vandana Shiva (Seven Stories Press, 2005)

The Dragon and the Elephant David Smith (Profile Books, 2007)

No Full Stops in India Mark Tully (Penguin, 1991)

Being Indian Pavan Varma (Arrow Books, 2006)

Indian History

India, a history John Keay (Harper Perennial, 2004)

Fiction

Clear Light of Day Anita Desai (Vintage, 2001)

The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai (Penguin, 2007)

Passage to India EM Forster (Penguin, 2005)

Heat and Dust Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (John Murray, 2003)

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry (Faber and Faber, 2006)

In a Free State V S Naipaul (Picador, 2001)

Gods, Demons and Others RK Naraya (South Asia Books, 1987)

The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy (Flamingo, 1998)

Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie (Vintage, 2006)

A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth (Harper Perennial, 2005)

Staying On Paul Scott (Arrow Books, 1999)

Gitanjali Rabindranath Tagore (Full Circle Publishing, 2004)

Selected Poems Rabindranath Tagore, transl William Radice (Penguin, 2005)