The fourth edition of History Literature Festival has announced its shortlist of ten nonfiction books that echo the festival’s aim to make historical understanding more “accessible, engaging, and meaningful.”
Here’s the complete shortlist:
A Man For All Seasons: The Life Of KM Panikkar, Narayani Basu, Westland Books
Boats in a Storm: Law, Migration and Citizenship in Post-War Asia, Kalyani Ramnath, Westland Books
Casting the Buddha: A Monumental History of Buddhism in India, Shashank Shekhar Sinha, Pan Macmillan India
Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India, Srinath Raghavan, Penguin India
MS Swaminathan: The Man Who Fed India, Priyambada Jayakumar, HarperCollins India
Rama Bhima Soma: Cultural Investigations into Modern Karnataka, Srikar Raghavan, Westland Books
The Gujaratis: A Portrait of a Community, Salil Tripathi, Aleph Book Company
The Mother: A Life of Sri Aurobindo’s Spiritual Collaborator, Peter Heehs, HarperCollins India
The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community, Nirmala Lakshman, Aleph Book Company
Vitrum, Juhi Walia, Sanghamitra Chatterjee, and Deepti Anand, Haresh Rangildas Mehta
