Books by Dinyar Patel
Dinyar Patel is Associate Professor of History at the S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR) in Mumbai and an affiliate at the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of South Asian History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of Naoroji: Pioneer of Indian Nationalism (2020), which received the 2021 Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay Book Prize awarded by the New India Foundation.
Interviews with Dinyar Patel
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A Concise History of Modern India
by Barbara Metcalf & Thomas Metcalf -
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
by Ramachandra Guha -
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A Part Apart: The Life and Thought of B. R. Ambedkar
by Ashok Gopal -
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
by Katherine Boo -
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta
The best books on Modern Indian History, recommended by Dinyar Patel
The best books on Modern Indian History, recommended by Dinyar Patel
Whether we're thinking about democracy versus authoritarianism, corruption versus good governance, or rich versus poor, there is a lot we can learn from India's recent history, says Dinyar Patel, a historian at SPJIMR in Mumbai. He talks us through some good books on the modern history of a country that has long been the world's largest democracy and is now its most populous country.
