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Here are titles of some books that I have found very useful and interesting.

• Joseph Frederick Scott
  A History Of Mathematics: From Antiquity to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  This is a very old book and is used as a standard reference by the Encyclopedia Britannica. The author seems pretty annoyed to find that ancient Indians had invented of the decimal system and the algebra, thereby laying the foundation for modern mathematics. So, the author veers off into genetics to bring out a novel explanation - hybrid vigor. Crossbreeding between "Aryans" from the West and "indigenous" people of India created a vastly superior race, who were capable of inventions that could last for millennia. He goes on to say that the hybrid vigor lasted only a few generations, which curtailed further development of science and mathematics in India. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Nilakanta Shastri
  A History Of South India (Buy this book from Prakash Books, Amazon.)
• James Cameron
  An Indian Summer (Buy this book from IndiaTimes, Amazon.)
• Carl Sagan & Richard Turco
  A Path Where No Man Thought - Nuclear Winter And The End Of The Arms Race (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Hugh Thomas
  Armed Truce: The Beginnings Of The Cold War - 1945-46
  An extremely well-documented book on the origins of the bleeding-without-fighting war. In one place however Thomas goes off track and pulls a conspiracy theory on the reader. The author claims the early MIG aircraft engines were based on original Rolls Royce designs. In the references section, this bull is filed as "private information." The author is also unable to come to terms with the fact that leaders like Roosevelt and Churchill had sought Stalin's help to defeat Hitler. Like a typical Western historian, Thomas quotes some racist views Churchill had about Slavic people in a vain attempt to exorcise historical fact. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• General K. Sundarji
  Blind Men of Hindoostan - Indo-Pak Nuclear War (Buy this book from English Book Depot, IndiaClub.)
• Chitra Subraminiam
  Bofors - The Story Behind The News
  Chitra Subramaniam is credited with breaking the Bofors story in the press. She was based in Stockholm when Swedish radio broadcast that large bribes were paid to get the Indian howitzer deal. Ms. Subramanian managed to get hold of some original documents that threw light on the scandal. Despite threats to her life, she continued to make more revelations in her articles in The Hindu. For her courage and determination, she won several awards, one of which she shared with her editor N. Ram. However, after some time, the editor stopped publishing her articles, claiming that her work was "too controversial." (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Tariq Ali
  Can Pakistan Survive? The Death Of A State
  When Tariq Ali wrote this book, Pakistan had for the most part been a banana republic. Even now, the situation in Pakistan has not changed much. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Alexander Frater
  Chasing The Monsoon
  Frater's father was a metereologist. As a young boy, he had heard a lot about Chirapunji (Assam), the wettest place on earth, from his father. Later in life, when he suffers a whiplash injury, someone suggests that he visit India to recuperate. Frater takes the opportunity and lands in India. He then begins chasing the monsoon, starting from Kerala where the monsoon strikes first and literally follows it all around the country. (Buy this book from Amazon IndiaClub.)
• Fox Butterfield
  China: Alive In The Bitter Sea
  Butterfield was a New York Times correspondent in China for some time. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• P. K. Banzai
  Cultural And Political History of Kashmir
• Ambrose Bierce
  The Devil's Dictionary (Get it free from DOWNLOADS section.)
• Anne Frank
  Diary Of A Girl (Buy this book from IndiaTimes.)
• Shahid Hamid
  Disastrous Twilight
  Hamid was personal secretary of the last C-in-C of British India and later became DGMO (Director-General of Military Operations) of Pakistan's Army. The author provides a first-person account of the partition. It is an important book for every student of Indian History. It is well known and least admitted that the British cultivated Jinnah by proxy; this book provides the evidence. Lord Mountbatten knew well that Hamid was a lackey of Jinnah. One day, the Viceroy tells Hamid that he believed that the creation of Pakistan was inevitable. Hamid admits that he went and told Jinnah about this. Now we know why Jinnah was so sure about Pakistan. Another interesting bit of information I found was about Nehru. Many people are aware of Gandhi's statement that Nehru even thought and dreamt in English. What many do not know is that Soviets were so impressed with Nehru's writing in English that they paid him for his books in dollars, contrary to their practice of paying only in roubles. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Sheikh Abdullah
  Flames Of Chinar
  Biography of Sheik Abdullah translated in English. (Book Avenue.)
• William L. Shirer
  Gandhi - A Memoir (Buy this book from The Price Search.)
• Alex Ayres
  Greatly Exaggerated - The Wit And Wisdom Of Mark Twain (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Murari Ghosh & Dilip Chakraborty
  Gun, Submarine & Switzerland
• Dharmpal & S. N. Prasad
  History Of Operations In J&K (1947-48)
  Published by the Defence Press, this book is an official version of the events in the 1947 war with Pakistan. It sets the record straight on several controversies. For example, they have showed how Stanley Wolpert was wrong in quoting M.C. Mahajan. However, they provide an unsatisfactory explanation for Nehru's decision to halt the advance of the Indian Army into present-day POK. (Buy this book from Abe Books.)
• Swami Chidbhavananda
  Holy Bible In The Light Of The Vedas
  The author compares the bible and its "brutal verses" with Indian scriptures.
  Published by Sri Ramakrishna Tapovanam, Tiruparaitturai, Tiruchirapalli District, Tamil Nadu. PIN Code: 639115.
• Stanley Wolpert
  Jinnah Of Pakistan
  This book is still a veritable mine of information. (Buy this book from Amazon, Desi Store.) I got my introduction to Stanley Wolpert from a review in The Hindu: "a surprisingly third-rate biography of Nehru by the American historian Stanley Wolpert - surprisingly because Wolpert had always possessed the most authentic credentials for being unfailingly second rate." However, the Indian government, in its infinite wisdom, has banned one of his books - Nine Hours to Rama.
• Steven Hoffman
  India And The China Crisis
  A critique on the Indian political establishment during and after the 1962 invasion by China. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Desmond Doig
  Looking Back In Wonder
  Doig, an Anglo-Indian, looks back at his career as a journalist before and after Independence. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Jeanne Boydston, Nick Cullather, Jan Lewis, Michael McGerr, James Oakes
  Making A Nation: The United States and Its People
  How the United States of America came to be the nation it is today. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Brahm Dutt Bharti
  Max Mueller - A Lifelong Masquerade
  When the British discovered the The East Indian Company employed Max Mueller to provide a fake translation of the Vedas. The idea was to discredit the Hindu civilization. This book exposes the lifelong masquerade.
• Alan Campbell
  Mission With Mountbatten
  Campbell was the Public Relations Officer to Mountbatten. It was unusual in those days to have a PRO. Anyway, he wrote a biography on Mountbatten's years in India as viceroy. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Nirmal Nibedon
  Mizoram - The Night Of The Guerillas (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Collins & Lapierre
  Mountbattean And The Partition Of India (ILab Database.)
• P. D. Stracey
  Nagaland Nightmare (Buy this book from Alibris.)
• Arthur Swinson
  North-West Frontier(Buy this book from Mystery and Imagination.)
• F. Gregory Gause III
  Oil Monarchies
  Explores monarchies in the Middle East and the challenges they face. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Saros Cowasjee & K. S. Duggal
  Orphans Of The Storm (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Sonia Gandhi
  Rajiv
  Did you know Sonia Gandhi has written a book on Rajiv? However, it is more of photographs than written text.
• Sanjoy Hazarika
  Strangers In The Mist
  Covers the people and insurgents in the North East. (Buy this book from IndiaTimes.)
• Eugene Irschick
  Tamil Revival In The 1930s
  Covers the attempts by Dravidian movements at Tamil revival in the pre-Independence era. (Available at the Connemara Public Library, Egmore, Madras.)
• Victor Marchetti
  The CIA And The Cult Of Intelligence
  Marchetti was an ex-CIA man who left the agency to write this book. The book was heavily censored in the US. Moscow published it in full. Among other things, it mentions American support to Naga hostiles and about clandestine airline companies run by the CIA to supply militias financed by the US in the third world countries. Supplies included prostitutes apart from arms and ammunition. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Mark Twain/Edited by Charles Neider
  The Complete Essays Of Mark Twain (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Mark Twain/Edited by Charles Neider
  The Complete Short Stories of Mark Twain (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Asghar Khan
  The First Round Indo-Pakistan War 1965
  Asghar Khan was Air Force chief in Pakistan at that time. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Christopher Hibbert
  The Great Mutiny
  About the 1957 mutiny against East India Company's government in India. Full of first-person accounts. (Buy this book from IndiaTimes, Amazon.)
• Shere Hite
  The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality
  Hitte's book was ahead of its time and generated a great deal of unwelcome attention to the author. She later exiled herself to Germany. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Barbara Tuchman
  The March Of Folly - From Troy To Vietnam
  Throughout history, nation after nation has gone to war only to end with failure because they all followed a policy that essentially defeated its purpose. This book chronicles such bad decisions starting from the time of the Trojan war to that of the Vietnam conflict. (Buy this book from UBSPD, India, Amazon.)
• Paul Kennedy
  The Rise & Fall Of Great Powers
  Before Industrial Revolution, India was biggest manufacturing nation in the world. Import of cheap factory-made textiles from Britain laid waste to large parts of the Indian economy and millions died from poverty and famine. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• William L. Shirer
  The Rise & Fall Of The Third Reich (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Debashis Basu & Suchetal Dalal
  The Scam - Who Won, Who Lost, & Who Got Away (Buy this book from SuchetaDalal.com.)
• Noam Chomsky
  The World Order - Old & New (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Tibor Fischer
  Under The Frog
  This novel is set in Hungary at the height of cold war. Extremely witty. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Booker T. Washington
  Up From Slavery (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• George Seldes
  Witness To A Century - Encounters with the noted, the notorious, and 3 SOBs
  Seldes was a photographer who managed close-up photographs of the likes of Hitler and Stalin. Even if you cannot accept Seldes' tall claim that he saw Hitler crawling on all fours after the beer-hall putsch when Hitler and his stormtroopers were fired up on by troops sounds, the book will still be an interesting read. (Buy this book from Amazon.)
• Art Buchwald
  You Can Fool All The People All The Time (Buy this book from Amazon.)

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