Nonfiction
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Reading list: Nine books by Indian-American writers that address urgent global problems
Scroll Staff
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From the biography: Ram Vilas Paswan’s role in implementing the Mandal Commission report
Sobhana K Nair
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Biography: When theatre director Ebrahim Alkazi turned the terrace of his home into an auditorium
Amal Allana
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History of money: How did the Roaring Twenties in America fade out?
Mukesh Jindal
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‘If We Burn’: A book that examines why a decade of mass protest has done so little to change things
Christopher Pollard, The Conversation
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Research veteran N Bhaskara Rao’s book lists ways in which research units can still be independent
N Bhaskara Rao
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A new book talks of IM Lall, the ICS officer who defied the British Empire and won a case against it
Chander M Lall
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‘A Flat Place’: A memoir of landscapes, the hometown, and complex relationships with family
Shreyasi Sharma
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March nonfiction: Around the world with six recently published international nonfiction titles
Scroll Staff
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Twentieth-century texts show the relationship between Muslim tailors, their trade and their faith
Amanda Lanzillo
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March nonfiction: Six new books examine the promises made and broken in quest of a modern India
Sayari Debnath
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How Lala Lajpat Rai reinterpreted India’s ‘Muslim’ history to highlight peaceful co-existence
Vanya Vaidehi Bhargav
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February nonfiction: Six newly published books from around the world that speak to our times
Scroll Staff
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A new book examines how India is using climate policy to align with its global strategic needs
Mohan Kumar
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February nonfiction: Six newly published books for the shortest month of the leap year
Sayari Debnath
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From gem-craft to statecraft: How Gujarati jewellers became powerbrokers in Mughal India
Sudev Sheth
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For children: Who was Durgabai Kamat, the first female film actor of India?
Anwesha Sengupta Supurna Banerjee Simantini Mukhopadhyay
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A new book examines the role the US and UK played in China’s quest to dominate the Taiwan Strait
Vijay Gokhale
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Global nonfiction: Six recently published books from around the world to read in the new year
Scroll Staff
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From the biography: When Jagadish Chandra Bose’s father put his young son under an ex-pirate’s care
Sudipto Das