I'm creating a recommended book list for students of South Asian history and politics.

What do you think should be on it?

- "Annihilation of Caste" by BR Ambedkar
- "Walking With the Comrades" by Arundhati Roy
- "Hindutva" by VD Savarkar
- "Slavery" by Jyotirao Phule
- "Mogul India" by Niccolao Manucci
- "Sketch of the Sikhs" by John Malcolm
- "Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi" by Mohandas Gandhi
- "The Mughal Throne" by Abraham Eraly
- "Aurangzeb" by Audrey Truschke
- "What Gandhi and Congress Have Done to Untouchables" by BR Ambedkar
- "A History of the Sikhs" by Joseph Davey Cunningham
- "Travels in the Mogul Empire" by François Bernier
- "City of Djinns" by William Dalrymple
- "A Free Man" by Aman Sethi
- "Ants Among Elephants" by Sujatha Gidla
- "Jahangir's India" by Francisco Pelsaert
- "The Sikhs in History" by Sangat Singh
- "We or Our Nationhood Defined" by MS Golwalkar
- "War at the Top of the World" by Eric Margolis
- "The Argumentative Indian" by Amartya Sen
- "The Age of Kali" by William Dalrymple
- "The Temptations of the West" by Pankaj Mishra
- "For Reasons of State" by John Dayal
- "The Punjab" by Henry Steinbach
- "Collected Works of Periyar EVR" by EV Ramasamy
- "BJP vis-à-vis Hindu Resurgence" by Koenraad Elst
- "Hindu Society Under Siege" by Sita Ram Goal
- "A Place at the Multicultural Table" by Prema Kurien
- "Hindu Nationalism in India" by Dibyesh Anand
- "Amritsar" by Mark Tully
- "Untouchable" by Mulk Raj Anand
- "In the Shade of the Swastika" by Marzia Casolari
- "Hitler's Priestess" by Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
- "Time for Stock Taking" by Sita Ram Goel
- "Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History" by VD Savarkar
- "Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects" by Mridu Rai
- "The Clash Within" by Martha Nussbaum
- "Hindu Rashtra Darshan" by VD Savarkar
- "Dr. Ambedkar and Untouchability" by Christophe Jaffrelot
- "Politics After Television" by Arvind Rajagopal
- "Shahjahanabad" by Rana Safvi
- "A Feast of Vultures" by Josy Joseph
- "The Saffron Wave" by Thomas Blom Hansen
- "Being the Other" by Saeed Naqvi
- "Shades of Saffron" by Saba Naqvi
- "Gujarat Files" by Rana Ayyub
- "Hindu Nationalism" by Chetan Bhatt
- "The Indian Ideology" by Perry Anderson
- "The RSS" by AG Noorani
- "Brotherhood in Saffron" by Walter Andersen and Shridhar Damle
- "Uncle Swami" by Vijay Prashad
- "Spirit of the Sikh" by Puran Singh
- "A Concise History of Modern India" by Barbara and Thomas Metcalf
- "The Valiant" by Gurmeet Kaur
- "Violent Conjunctures in Democratic India" by Amrita Basu
- "Bhai Maharaj Singh" by ML Ahluwalia
- "The Hindu Nationalist Reader" by Christophe Jaffrelot
- "Looking Away" by Harsh Mander
- "The Human Toll of the Kashmir Conlict" by Shubh Mathur
- "Who Killed Karkare?" by SM Mushrif
- "Sicques, Tigers or Thieves" ed. by Amandeep Singh Madra and P Singh
- "Bunch of Thoughts" by MS Golwalkar
- "Listening to Grasshoppers" by Arundhati Roy
- "Early Indians" by Tony Joseph
- "The History of India" by Mountstuart Elphinstone

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Translucent agate bowl with ornamental grooves and coffee-and-cream marbling. Found near Qift in southern Egypt. 300 - 1,000 BC. 📷 Getty Museum https://t.co/W1HfQZIG2V


Technicolor dreambowl, found in a grave near Zadar on Croatia's Dalmatian Coast. Made by melding and winding thin bars of glass, each adulterated with different minerals to get different colors. 1st century AD. 📷 Zadar Museum of Ancient Glass
https://t.co/H9VfNrXKQK


100,000-year-old abalone shells used to mix red ocher, marrow, charcoal, and water into a colorful paste. Possibly the oldest artist's palettes ever discovered. Blombos Cave, South Africa. 📷https://t.co/0fMeYlOsXG


Reed basket bowl with shell and feather ornaments. Possibly from the Southern Pomo or Lake Miwok cultures. Found in Santa Barbara, CA, circa 1770. 📷 British Museum https://t.co/F4Ix0mXAu6


Wooden bowl with concentric circles and rounded rim, most likely made of umbrella thorn acacia (Vachellia/Acacia tortilis). Qumran. 1st Century BCE. 📷 https://t.co/XZCw67Ho03

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हिमालय पर्वत की एक बड़ी पवित्र गुफा थी।उस गुफा के निकट ही गंगा जी बहती थी।एक बार देवर्षि नारद विचरण करते हुए वहां आ पहुंचे।वह परम पवित्र गुफा नारद जी को अत्यंत सुहावनी लगी।वहां का मनोरम प्राकृतिक दृश्य,पर्वत,नदी और वन देख उनके हृदय में श्रीहरि विष्णु की भक्ति अत्यंत बलवती हो उठी।


और देवर्षि नारद वहीं बैठकर तपस्या में लीन हो गए।इन्द्र नारद की तपस्या से घबरा गए।उन्हें हमेशा की तरह अपना सिंहासन व स्वर्ग खोने का डर सताने लगा।इसलिए इन्द्र ने नारद की तपस्या भंग करने के लिए कामदेव को उनके पास भेज दिया।वहां पहुंच कामदेव ने अपनी माया से वसंतऋतु को उत्पन्न कर दिया।


पेड़ और पौधों पर रंग बिरंगे फूल खिल गए और कोयलें कूकने लगी,पक्षी चहकने लगे।शीतल,मंद,सुगंधित और सुहावनी हवा चलने लगी।रंभा आदि अप्सराएं नाचने लगीं ।किन्तु कामदेव की किसी भी माया का नारद पे कोई प्रभाव नहीं पड़ा।तब कामदेव को डर सताने लगा कि कहीं नारद क्रोध में आकर मुझे श्राप न देदें।

जैसे ही नारद ने अपनी आंखें खोली, उसी क्षण कामदेव ने उनसे क्षमा मांगी।नारद मुनि को तनिक भी क्रोध नहीं आया और उन्होने शीघ्र ही कामदेव को क्षमा कर दिया।कामदेव प्रसन्न होकर वहां से चले गए।कामदेव के चले जाने पर देवर्षि के मन में अहंकार आ गया कि मैने कामदेव को हरा दिया।

नारद फिर कैलाश जा पहुंचे और शिवजी को अपनी विजयगाथा सुनाई।शिव समझ गए कि नारद अहंकारी हो गए हैं और अगर ये बात विष्णु जी जान गए तो नारद के लिए अच्छा नहीं होगा।ये सोचकर शिवजी ने नारद को भगवन विष्णु को ये बात बताने के लीए मना किया। परंतु नारद जी को ये बात उचित नहीं लगी।