Although there is nothing here about India, Photo Icons is one of the best single books on photography available today. Each of its 20 well-written essays decodes a single historical photograph using fresh historical research and profound insight.Read more
An eye-opening book about how policies, technologies and weather patterns combined to bring about some of the enormous famines that became endemic to India in the second half of the 19th century.Read more
A sumptuously illustrated, very well-researched study of the architectural styles of British India by a very well-respected scholar. The books focus is on Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata and the very unique architectural styles that developed in the Presidency capitals, the results of official policy and the vision of select architects.Read more
"This volume brings together 19 seminal essays on India's visual culture and its leading manifestations during the period 1857-2007. It traces the shifting role of the artist and art institution through cataclysmic changes in India's history. The early essays cover the age of empire,Read more
Although not about Indian photography, this is one of the finest and most thought-provoking books about colonial photography. There is much in its theoretical framework that is applicable to photography in the subcontinent as well, past and present.
The indispensable guide to Hindi English words, to the influence of Indian languages, and a most entertaining read. A book as unique and multi-leveled as India, Bangladesh and Pakistan today.Read more
This book by India's master writer and chronicler Khushwant Singh was published in 2008 by Penguin India. It is being released in the US on August 12, 2009.