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A Passage to India
by E.M.Forster
What really happened in the Marabar caves? This is the mystery at the heart of E.M. Forster's 1924 novel, A Passage to India, the puzzle that sets in motion events highlighting an even larger question: Can an Englishman and an Indian be friends?

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Karma Cola : Marketing the Mystic East (Vintage International)
by Gita Mehta
Karma Cola is hilarious, provocative, and sobering as it exposes the philosophical misconceptions underlying the "invasion" of India by foreigners who flock their every year, seeking to soothe their troubled souls,--and the Indians, who cheerfully exploit them for fun and profit

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Mirrorwork : 50 Years of Indian Writing : 1947-1997
by Salman Rushdie (Editor), Elizabeth West (Editor)
Many of the authors included in this collection are known to Western readers--Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, for example, Arundhati Roy, Rohinton Mistry, and of course Rushdie himself, to name just a few

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In Custody
by Anita Desai
This novel In Custody is a story of a teacher who is asked by his friend to go and take interview of a very famous Urdu Poet, Nur Saahib. He was inspired by Nur Saahib poetry from his childhood, but when he meets him, Nur Saahib is not the kind of man he had an image of.  -Asad I Khan

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Swimming Lessons : And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag
by Rohinton Mistry
Firozsha Baag is an apartment building in Bombay. Its ceilings need plastering and some of the toilets leak appallingly, but its residents are far from desperate, though sometimes contentious and unforgiving. In these witty, poignant stories, Mistry charts the intersecting lives of Firozsha Baag, yielding a delightful collective portrait of a middle-class Indian community poised between the old ways and the new.

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A Tale of Two Gardens : Poems from India 1952-1995
by Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger (Editor), Charles Tomlinson (Translator)
Octavio Paz, 1990 Nobel Prize winner, declares that his many nonfiction books on the subject of India are only footnotes to his India poems. Those collected here cover more than 40 years of Paz's many and various commitments to Indiaas Mexican ambassador, student of Indian philosophy, and, above all, poet.

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A Fine Balance
by Rohinton Mistry
In 1975, in an unidentified Indian city, Mrs. Dina Dalal, a financially pressed Parsi widow in her early 40s sets up a sweatshop of sorts in her ramshackle apartment. Determined to remain financially independent and to avoid a second marriage, she takes in a boarder and two Hindu tailors to sew dresses for an export company...

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Malgudi Days (Twentieth-Century Classics)
by R. K. Narayan
Certainly Narayan at his best. This book was included in my O'Level course of English Literature. I just could not leave this book. The stories are as close to life as a writer can bring it. Even though the stories are of eastern people the characters are universal   -A Reader

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The Guide : A Novel (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by R. K. Narayan

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Gods, Demons, and Others
by R. K. Narayan, R. K. Laxman (Illustrator)
Reprint of Narayan's adaptation of Indian mythology.

The English Teacher
by R. K. Narayan

Swami and Friends (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by R. K. Narayan

Listening Now
by Anjana Appachana
This beautifully written, lyrical novel of love and deception centers on the intensely personal world of seven marvelously wrought characters.

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Such a Long Journey
by Rohinton Mistry
A moving domestic tragi-comedy that introduces readers to Gustad Noble, a devout Parsi and dedicated family man, who becomes enmeshed in the corruption of the Indira Gandhi years

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The Proudest Day : India's Long Road to Independence
by Anthony Read, David Fisher
. British authors Anthony Read and David Fisher put the events of 1947 into perspective, telling the whole epic story in colorful detail from its beginning more than a century earlier. Their powerful narrative takes a fresh look at many of the events and personalities involved.

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India : From Midnight to the Millennium
by Shashi Tharoor
One of India's foremost writers assesses the country's achievements and failures over the last fifty years of its independence from British rule and notes India's importance in the challenges facing America in the twenty-first century.

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Amazing Mallika
by Jami Parkison, Itoko Maeno (Illustrator), Carol Talley (Editor)
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Heat and Dust by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Winner of the Booker Prize as best novel of the year in 1983, Heat and Dust was also made into a major motion picture starring Julie Christie, now regarded by many as a classic List Price: $11.00 Our Price: $8.80 You Save: $2.20 (20%) Acting Up (The Hardy Boys Casefiles , No 116) by Franklin W. Dixon Frank and Joe have come halfway around the world to investigate sabotage on a movie set. India's culture and customs may be foreign to them, but when it comes to battling terror, neither brother is a stranger to danger. And as soon as they set foot in this land of mystery, it's bombs away over Bombay! Original List Price: $3.99 Our Price: $3.19 You Save: $0.80 (20%) In a Free State by V. S. Naipaul This grouping of two short stories, a short novel within a prologue and an epilogue from Naipaul's travel journals, is held together by Naipaul's pervading concern with the themes of exile, freedom and prejudice. List Price: $9.00 Our Price: $7.20 You Save: $1.80 (20%) Raj : A Novel by Gita Mehta "This glittering, extravagant novel brims with rich detail of royal India."-- New York Newsday. Gita Mehta dramatizes her country's recent history through the experiences of one unforgettable woman, Princess Jaya. Along with her personal story, Raj offers an inside look at India's modern politics and timeless spirituality List Price: $12.50 Our Price: $10.00 You Save: $2.50 (20%)   Red Earth and Pouring Rain : A Novel by Vikram Chandra, Jordan Pavlin (Editor) Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $11.96 You Save: $2.99 (20%)   Snakes and Ladders by Gita Mehta Gita Mehta is a keen critic of her homeland. In her brilliantly satirical Karma Cola she skewered the guru business and the marketing of Eastern spiritualism. In Snakes and Ladders Gita widens her net to include politics, economics, religion, and so much more List Price: $22.95 Our Price: $16.07 You Save: $6.88 (30%) A River Sutra by Gita Mehta A collection of interwoven stories, written in the traditional form of Indian storytelling, explores the savagery of human love and the illuminates the paradoxes of India List Price: $12.00 Our Price: $9.60 You Save: $2.40 (20%) The Idea of India by Sunil Khilnani List Price: $24.00 Our Price: $16.80 You Save: $7.20 (30%)