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Highstreett has 4 reading guides and 51 book pages on Indian history.
British India and the Raj, the East India Company, the Mughal Empire and Partition.
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Best books about the British Empire
Six books about the British Empire, chosen from two Highstreett book searches: a history of the whole system, the case for it, an enslaved man's own account, the 1857 rising in India, an Indian nationalist's history, and the empire at home.
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Best books about the East India Company
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Best books about the Mughal Empire
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Best books about the Partition of India
Indian history books recommended on Highstreett
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- The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an EmpireWilliam DalrympleIndian history
- The Great Mutiny: India 1857Christopher HibbertIndian history
- The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833H. V. BowenBritish imperial history
- The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian RajDavid GilmourIndian history
- The Honourable Company: A History of the English East India CompanyJohn KeayIndian history
- The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857William DalrympleIndian history
- The Sepoy and the Raj: The Indian Army, 1860-1940David OmissiIndian history
- The Indian Mutiny: 1857Saul DavidIndian history
- The Discovery of IndiaJawaharlal NehruIndian history
- The East India Company and the Politics of KnowledgeJoshua EhrlichIndian history
- India: A HistoryJohn KeayIndian history
- Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to IndiaShashi TharoorIndian history
- The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the HimalayaRamachandra GuhaIndian history
- The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial BritainNicholas B. DirksImperial history
- The Great Partition: The Making of India and PakistanYasmin KhanIndian history
- The Indian Army and the Making of PunjabRajit K. MazumderIndian history
- The Raj at War: A People's History of India's Second World WarYasmin KhanIndian history
- The Mughal EmpireJohn F. RichardsIndian history
- Midnight's Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India's PartitionNisid HajariIndian history
- The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India: Exploring Transgressions, Contests and DiversitiesBiswamoy PatiIndian history
- The Company State: The East India Company and the Making of the Modern British EmpirePhilip J. SternBritish imperial history
- The Women of the Raj: The Mothers, Wives, and Daughters of the British Empire in IndiaMargaret MacMillanIndian history
- A Concise History of Modern IndiaBarbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. MetcalfIndian history
- The Mughals of IndiaHarbans MukhiaIndian history
- A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent SettlementRanajit GuhaIndian history
- The English Utilitarians and IndiaEric StokesIndian history
- The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for PakistanAyesha JalalSouth Asian history
- The Peasant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857Eric StokesIndian history
- The Mughal World: Life in India's Last Golden AgeAbraham EralyIndian history
- The Indian Empire: Its History, Topography, Government, Military Strength, and ResourcesR. Montgomery MartinIndian history
- Freedom at MidnightLarry Collins and Dominique LapierreIndian history
- The Other Side of Silence: Voices from and the Partition of IndiaUrvashi ButaliaIndian history
- The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India Was Mapped and Everest Was NamedJohn KeayIndian history
- An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in IndiaShashi TharoorIndian history
- The Company's Sword: The East India Company and the Politics of Militarism, 1644-1858Christina WelschIndian history
- Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern IndiaNicholas B. DirksIndian history
- Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth-Century IndiaDavid ArnoldIndian history
- The Indian Army and the End of the Raj: Decolonisation and the End of EmpireDaniel MarstonIndian historyThe Indian Army and the End of the Raj: Decolonisation and the End of EmpireDaniel Marston
- Empire and Information: Intelligence Gathering and Social Communication in India, 1780-1870C. A. BaylyIndian history
- The Indian Empire: Its People, History and ProductsW. W. HunterIndian history
- The White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century IndiaWilliam DalrympleIndian history
- The Administration of the East India Company: A History of Indian ProgressJohn William KayeBritish imperial history
- Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial IndiaRanajit GuhaIndian history
- The Empire of the Great Mughals: History, Art and CultureAnnemarie SchimmelIndian history
- The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan DivideAyesha JalalIndian historyThe Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan DivideAyesha Jalal
- Land and Sovereignty in India: Agrarian Society and Politics under the Eighteenth-Century Maratha SvarajyaAndré WinkIndian history
- The Idea of IndiaSunil KhilnaniIndian history
- The East India Company and the Natural WorldAnna WinterbottomImperial history
- Partition: The Story of Indian Independence and the Creation of Pakistan in 1947Barney White-SpunnerIndian historyPartition: The Story of Indian Independence and the Creation of Pakistan in 1947Barney White-Spunner
- The Transition in Bengal, 1756-1775: A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza KhanAbdul Majed KhanIndian history
- India Conquered: Britain's Raj and the Chaos of EmpireJon WilsonIndian history
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