Check back every Friday for a new set of five! This week's selection includes Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla and Fearless Freedom by Kavita Krishnan among others.
Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India by Sujatha Gidla
Gidla illustrates the struggles of her family members as individuals engaging with society to build a better life for themselves, from her uncle's involvement with the Maoist movement, to her brother's with the communist ideology.
The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India by Urvashi Butalia
Butalia weaves her analyses into in-depth research in the form of over seventy interviews with Partition survivors, as well as examination of documents, op-eds, etc. to create a powerful and hopeful study of the Partition of 1947.
Maximum City by Suketu Mehta
A runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, this book dives into the underbelly of Bombay, or Mumbai, to dwell upon narratives about politics, religion, poverty, and of course, Bollywood.
Fearless Freedom by Kavita Krishnan
While India's conception of safety largely overlaps with a discourse about surveillance and subsequently, restriction of movement, Krishnan writes a radical manifesto on independence and equality by shedding light on the consequences of erasing women from public spaces.
The Courtesan, The Mahatma and The Italian Brahmin by Manu S. Pillai
A diverse collection of essays that leaps across the landscape of time to offer perspectives on problems of the present.
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