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    • The Relentless Rise of the East India Company
    • By: William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Sid Sagar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,196 ratings
    • 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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    • Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
    • By: Katherine Boo
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,293 ratings
    • In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels....

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    • By: Jim Corbett
    • Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
    • Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • 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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    • The Story of My Experiments with Truth
    • By: Mohandas - Mahatma K. Gandhi
    • Narrated by: Bill Wallace
    • Length: 18 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,015 ratings
    • 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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    • The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History
    • By: Dane Huckelbridge
    • Narrated by: Corey Snow
    • Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 378 ratings
    • A gripping true account of the deadliest animal of all time, the Champawat Tiger - responsible for killing more than 400 humans in Northern India and Nepal in the first decade of the 20th century - and the legendary hunter who finally brought it down....

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    • The History of the World's Most Infamous Diamond
    • By: Anita Anand, William Dalrymple
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most celebrated and mythologised jewel in the world....

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    • A History
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 33 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • 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 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 08-23-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 70 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • Release date: 11-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • 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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    • How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Lizzie Collingham
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 10-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • 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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    • A Social History of the Raj
    • By: David Gilmour
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 23 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-18-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • 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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    • The Secret History of the End of an Empire
    • By: Alex von Tunzelmann
    • Narrated by: Nicola Barber
    • Length: 15 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 202 ratings
    • 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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    • A Personal Portrait of Mother Teresa
    • By: Jim Towey
    • Narrated by: Jim Towey
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes an extraordinary firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint.

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    • Collected Nonfiction
    • By: Arundhati Roy
    • Narrated by: Tania Rodrigues
    • Length: 36 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-04-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • My Seditious Heart collects the work of a two-decade period when Arundhati Roy devoted herself to the political essay as a way of opening up space for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile environment....

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    • By: Javier Moro
    • Narrated by: Nerea Alfonso Mercado
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-31-20
    • Language: Spanish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • El 28 enero de 1908, una española de 17 años, sentada a lomos de un elefante lujosamente enjaezado, hace su entrada en una pequeña ciudad del norte de la India....

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    • By: Shashi Tharoor
    • Narrated by: Andrew Hoffland
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 05-12-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith....

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    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 748 ratings
    • 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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    • The Deadly Legacy of India's Partition
    • By: Nisid Hajari
    • Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 281 ratings
    • 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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