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The God of Small Things

The Anarchy

No Beast So Fierce

Caste

Over the Edge of the World

The Golden Road

The Last Mughal

A Passage to India

My Experiments with Truth

Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith

Nemesis

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Hello Bastar

Operation Grasshopper

The Argumentative Indian

Grains of Gold

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Delta Force

Maximum City

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Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India

Nordic Societal Security

India After Gandhi

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