Bestsellers
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,303
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Performance1,086
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Story1,081
The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- By TexasVC on 02-25-20
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,337
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Performance2,012
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Story2,013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- By Dr. on 06-14-12
By: Katherine Boo
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The Golden Road
- How Ancient India Transformed the World
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: William Dalrymple
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance67
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Story67
In The Golden Road, revered historian William Dalrymple corrects the record, telling the captivating story of ancient India’s ascent through a swift and breathtaking tour of the ideas and places Indians created. Treks into the depths of cave monasteries illuminate the origins and spread of Buddhism.
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Vital insights into the sources of culture and the philosophy of knowledge.
- By Adam on 09-26-25
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Shattered Lands
- Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
- By: Sam Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sam Dalrymple
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.
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Personal stories of the effects of partition
- By Lenna H Allred on 02-05-26
By: Sam Dalrymple
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
- By: Jim Corbett
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance106
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Story106
Her tracks now–as she carried away the girl–led into the wilderness of rocks, some acres in extent, where the going was both difficult and dangerous....
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By chapter 3 you want the tigers to eat him
- By Drone Boy on 01-06-24
By: Jim Corbett
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India
- 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
- By: Audrey Truschke
- Narrated by: Audrey Truschke
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
India provides a dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context—from antiquity to today.
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Tour of force of Indian history
- By Rajeev on 11-23-25
By: Audrey Truschke
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The Anarchy
- The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sid Sagar
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,303
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Performance1,086
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Story1,081
The Anarchy tells the remarkable story of how one of the world’s most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company....
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excellent book but awkward narration
- By TexasVC on 02-25-20
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,337
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Performance2,012
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Story2,013
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST...
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An Antidote for Shantaram
- By Dr. on 06-14-12
By: Katherine Boo
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The Golden Road
- How Ancient India Transformed the World
- By: William Dalrymple
- Narrated by: William Dalrymple
- Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall74
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Performance67
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Story67
In The Golden Road, revered historian William Dalrymple corrects the record, telling the captivating story of ancient India’s ascent through a swift and breathtaking tour of the ideas and places Indians created. Treks into the depths of cave monasteries illuminate the origins and spread of Buddhism.
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Vital insights into the sources of culture and the philosophy of knowledge.
- By Adam on 09-26-25
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Shattered Lands
- Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia
- By: Sam Dalrymple
- Narrated by: Sam Dalrymple
- Length: 15 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Story5
A bold and sweeping history of modern South Asia, told through the five partitions that reshaped it.
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Personal stories of the effects of partition
- By Lenna H Allred on 02-05-26
By: Sam Dalrymple
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
- By: Jim Corbett
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall114
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Performance106
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Story106
Her tracks now–as she carried away the girl–led into the wilderness of rocks, some acres in extent, where the going was both difficult and dangerous....
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By chapter 3 you want the tigers to eat him
- By Drone Boy on 01-06-24
By: Jim Corbett
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India
- 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent
- By: Audrey Truschke
- Narrated by: Audrey Truschke
- Length: 24 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
India provides a dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context—from antiquity to today.
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Tour of force of Indian history
- By Rajeev on 11-23-25
By: Audrey Truschke
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India
- A History
- By: John Keay
- Narrated by: Mike Fraser
- Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Story12
John Keay’s India: A History spans five millennia in a sweeping narrative that tells the story of the peoples of the subcontinent, from their ancient beginnings in the valley of the Indus to the events in the region today.
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The Best book on India I've ever read or listened to
- By djay on 10-03-24
By: John Keay
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The Corbett Collection, Volume 1: The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag and My Kumaon
- By: Jim Corbett
- Narrated by: Constantine Gregory
- Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
From the 1948 US edition: This is the story of the most publicized jungle animal that ever lived. In his best-selling Man-Eater's of Kumaon, Jim Corbett told of his battles with many man-eating tigers.
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One of the great all-time hunting classics
- By Amazon Customer on 06-02-25
By: Jim Corbett
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The Blood Telegram
- Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide
- By: Gary J. Bass
- Narrated by: Dennis Heath
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Story8
This magnificent history provides the first full account of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s secret support for Pakistan in 1971 as it committed shocking atrocities in Bangladesh.
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Very Informative
- By Nazim on 01-05-25
By: Gary J. Bass
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The Vortex
- A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
- By: Scott Carney, Jason Miklian
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance79
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Story79
The deadliest storm in modern history ripped Pakistan in two and led the world to the brink of nuclear war when American and Soviet forces converged in the Bay of Bengal In November 1970, a storm set a collision course with the most densely populated coastline on Earth. Over the course of just a...
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One of the Best books this year!
- By Nazir on 05-26-22
By: Scott Carney, and others
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Travels with Herodotus
- By: Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Narrated by: Nicolas Coster
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance12
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Story12
Herodotus, the fifth-century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped to go abroad. His companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus....
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Storytelling
- By Vincent Stanzione on 07-30-25
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The Taste of Empire
- How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
- By: Lizzie Collingham
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall75
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Performance66
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Story67
In The Taste of Empire, acclaimed historian Lizzie Collingham tells the story of how the British Empire's quest for food shaped the modern world. Told through 20 meals....
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Overall really interesting and informative
- By Amazon Customer on 01-01-21
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Capitalism
- A Ghost Story
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Vaishali Sharma
- Length: 2 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall112
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Performance93
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Story94
Capitalism examines the dark side of democracy in contemporary India, and shows how the demands of globalized capitalism has subjugated billions of people....
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Courageous Reporting
- By Doug - Audible on 03-31-15
By: Arundhati Roy
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Indian Summer
- The Secret History of the End of an Empire
- By: Alex von Tunzelmann
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall204
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Performance172
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Story173
At the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947, the British Empire withdrew from India, igniting the exhilaration and turmoil of a newly free society....
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Such an interesting piece of History made easy
- By Eric on 01-23-12
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Three Cups of Tea
- One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
- By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
- Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall2,742
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Performance915
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Story942
In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....
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A Fraud
- By Sara on 02-23-16
By: Greg Mortenson, and others
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Incarnations
- India in Fifty Lives
- By: Sunil Khilnani
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance52
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Story51
For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space....
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Great listen, the author is biased
- By Anonymous on 02-15-19
By: Sunil Khilnani
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The Taj Mahal
- The History of India's Most Famous Monument
- By: Charles River Editors, Jesse Harasta
- Narrated by: Karey James Kimmel
- Length: 1 hr and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance3
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Story3
Taj Mahal is Arabic for "crown of palaces", and the name could not be more fitting for one of the most instantly recognizable buildings in the world....
By: Charles River Editors, and others
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An Autobiography
- The Story of My Experiments with Truth
- By: Mohandas - Mahatma K. Gandhi
- Narrated by: Bill Wallace
- Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1,018
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Performance829
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Story829
A holy man to Hindus, a hero to Muslims, and a criminal to the British, Mohandas K. Gandhi was an inspiring figure of the 20th century....
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Narration disappointment
- By Antonia on 06-23-11
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Himalaya
- A Human History
- By: Ed Douglas
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 26 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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Story14
Spanning millennia, from the earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya explores history, culture, climate, geography, and politics....
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An excellent book with a disinterested narrator
- By BC on 01-31-22
By: Ed Douglas
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River Kings
- A New History of the Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads
- By: Cat Jarman
- Narrated by: Christine Rendel
- Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance75
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Story75
Three years ago, a Carnelian bead came into Catrine Jarman's temporary possession. River Kings sees her trace the path of this ancient piece of jewelry back to eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that the Vikings' route was more varied than we might think....
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Like school
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-24
By: Cat Jarman
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Home in the World
- A Memoir
- By: Amartya Sen
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall17
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Performance16
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Story16
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.
By: Amartya Sen
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Midnight's Furies
- The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
- By: Nisid Hajari
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall290
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Performance257
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Story256
Nobody expected the liberation of India and birth of Pakistan to be so bloody - it was supposed to be an answer to the dreams of Muslims and Hindus who had been ruled by the British for centuries....
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Amazingly detailed account of this tragedy i gigan
- By BG on 10-09-15
By: Nisid Hajari
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- By: Anita Anand
- Narrated by: Anita Anand
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall61
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Performance54
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Story54
The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael...
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more interesting history
- By Autodidact on 09-07-19
By: Anita Anand
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Taj Mahal
- Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire
- By: Diana Preston, Michael Preston
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 10 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall153
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Performance120
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Story119
Built by the Moghul emperor Shah Jahan as a memorial to his beloved wife, the Taj Mahal's flawless symmetry and gleaming presence have for centuries dazzled all who have seen it....
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A broad perspective
- By Neil on 11-01-09
By: Diana Preston, and others
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Gandhi & Churchill
- By: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall753
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Performance516
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Story519
Gandhi & Churchill shows how their 40-year rivalry revolutionized India and the British Empire, paving the way for a new era....
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A motif that works well
- By Maine Dave on 11-30-09
By: Arthur Herman
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The Shortest History of India
- From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy—A Retelling for Our Times
- By: John Zubrzycki
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Story14
5,000 years of history—from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood—fill this masterful portrait of the world's most populous nation and a rising global power....
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Quick paced coverage of a very great deal of India’s History
- By Caleagle on 03-22-24
By: John Zubrzycki
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The British in India
- A Social History of the Raj
- By: David Gilmour
- Narrated by: Michael Page
- Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall243
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Performance207
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Story206
An immersive portrait of the lives in India, from the seventeenth century to Independence, The British in India weaves a rich tapestry of the everyday experiences of the Britons who found themselves in “the jewel in the crown” of the British Empire....
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Thorough, entertaining
- By Dr. Schtick on 05-20-19
By: David Gilmour
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Azadi
- Freedom. Fascism. Fiction.
- By: Arundhati Roy
- Narrated by: Shaheen Khan
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance28
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Story28
The chant of Azadi! - Urdu for "freedom!" - is the slogan of the freedom struggle in Kashmir against what Kashmiris see as the Indian Occupation. Ironically it has also become the chant of millions on the streets of India against the project of Hindu Nationalism....
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Eye opener to all the fascist practices in India
- By Samanvitha on 02-02-21
By: Arundhati Roy
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Empress
- The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
- By: Ruby Lal
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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Story30
Empress Nur Jahan's confident assertion of talent and power is revelatory; it far exceeded the authority of her female contemporaries in Renaissance Europe. Here, she finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history....
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A Fascinating Life
- By Katie on 09-14-18
By: Ruby Lal
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The Cage
- The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers
- By: Gordon Weiss
- Narrated by: James Adams
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance43
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Story42
In the closing days of the 30-year Sri Lankan civil war, tens of thousands of civilians were killed, according to UN estimates, as government forces hemmed in the last remaining Tamil Tiger rebels....
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Tragic and sobering
- By Tarindu on 10-28-15
By: Gordon Weiss