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		sridca on Feb 6, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What books changed the way you think about... What would you recommend for a general history of India especially around British invasion? School textbooks are obviously biased.

_jgdh on Feb 6, 2019 [–]

I've only read a couple of history books about India, one by William Dalrymple and the other by Ramachandra Guha. I'd highly recommend both of them. In case you want to know about the last decades of the freedom struggle, Gandhi After India is probably what you're looking for.

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