{"id":5204,"count":48,"description":"The writers <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/pankaj-mishra-on-india\/\">Pankaj Mishra<\/a> and Kapil Komireddi, as well as economists Kaushik Basu and <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/best-books-india-meghnad-desai\/\">Meghnad Desai,<\/a> recommend their favourite books on India. Journalist Saumya Roy recommends <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/mumbai-saumya-roy\/\">books about Mumbai.<\/a>\r\n\r\nFor a history book, several people we interviewed selected <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/india-after-gandhi-history-worlds-largest-democracy-by-ramachandra-guha\/\"><em>India after Gandhi<\/em> by Ramachandra Guha<\/a> as the best introduction to understanding the recent history of the country. <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/argumentative-indian-by-amartya-sen\/\">Amartya Sen\u2019s <em>The Argumentative Indian<\/em><\/a> is also frequently recommended.\r\n\r\nBooks by the Nobel prize-winning Indian author <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/books-by-rabindranath-tagore\/\">Rabindranath Tagore<\/a> have been recommended many times on<em> Five Books<\/em>, as have books about India by another Nobel Prize winner, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/v-s-naipaul\/\">V.S. Naipaul<\/a>. Indian writers who have been frequently recommended include <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/people\/books-by-amitav-ghosh\/\">Amitav Ghosh.<\/a>\r\n\r\nSee also: <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/best-historical-novels-set-in-india-ruchir-joshi\/\">Historical Novels Set in India<\/a> |","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/india\/","name":"India","slug":"india","taxonomy":"category","parent":5616,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5616"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5204"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5204"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}