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    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

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    • One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
    • By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,739 ratings
    • In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....

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    • A Life of Alexander the Great
    • By: F. S. Naiden
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 12-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Whatever we may think of Alexander - whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath - most people do not regard him as a religious leader. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career....

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    • By: Mohandas K. Gandhi
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 11-20-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • Written after his release from prison, first published in English in 1927, My Experiments with Truth is Gandhi's autobiography....

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    • By: V. S. Naipaul
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India....

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    • By: Per J Andersson
    • Narrated by: Maanuv Thiara
    • Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appears before an Indian street artist known locally as PK and asks him to paint her portrait - it is an encounter that will change their lives irrevocably....

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    • Love, War, and the End of Empire
    • By: Deborah Baker
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Set in Calcutta, London, the glacier-locked wilds of the Karakoram, and on Everest itself, The Last Englishmen is also the story of a generation. The cast of this exhilarating drama includes Indian and English writers and artists, explorers and Communist spies....

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    • The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 36 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Author Ramachandra Guha has drawn on 60 different archival collections to reconstruct social and political activist Mohandas Gandhi's life and work....

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    • Dispatches from a Precarious State
    • By: Declan Walsh
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals....

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    • By: Ruhi Lee
    • Narrated by: Zenia Starr
    • Length: 8 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
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    • Good Indian Daughter is a brutally honest yet brilliantly funny memoir for anyone who's ever felt like a let-down....

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    • One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India, and Indonesia
    • By: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Gilbert
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14,922 ratings
    • She got rid of her belongings, quit her job, and undertook a yearlong journey around the world, all alone....

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    • A Collection of 3 Works by BR Ambedkar on Castes and the Constitution
    • By: B.R. Ambedkar
    • Narrated by: Mishal Varma
    • Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Ambedkar’s India is a collection of three of B.R. Ambedkar’s most prominent speeches on caste and the Indian Constitution....

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    • A Biography of Swami Vivekananda
    • By: Gautam Ghosh
    • Narrated by: Homer Todiwala
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 02-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A journey through the life of Swami Vivekananda is a study of the Indian civilization, its ethos and value system....

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    • A Short Memoir of Life with Ratan Tata
    • By: Shantanu Naidu
    • Narrated by: Jehan Dhalla
    • Length: 5 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • I Came Upon a Lighthouse is an honest, light-hearted telling of an uncommon bond between a millennial and an octogenarian that gives glimpses of a beloved Indian icon in a warm light....

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    • A History
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Mike Fraser
    • Length: 32 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 3 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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    • Ireland to India with a Bicycle
    • By: Dervla Murphy
    • Narrated by: Emma Lowe
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Full Tilt is the inspiring true story of Dervla Murphy's 1963 journey from Ireland to India on an Armstrong Cadet bicycle, and the trials, landscapes, and cultures she encountered along the way....

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    • By: Bhagat Singh
    • Narrated by: Siddhanta Pinto
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 04-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Bhagat Singh is a name that became synonymous with revolution in India’s struggle for Independence. This young boy brought about a change in the way people thought about freedom. He was well read and fought extensively for rights – his own, his comrades’ and his countrymen’s....

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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 371 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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    • A Memoir
    • By: Wasim Akram, Gideon Haigh
    • Narrated by: Ranjit Madgavkar
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Sultan tells the story of cricket's greatest left-arm bowler, and one of its enduring survivors, who was chosen from the streets of Lahore and groomed by Imran Khan to become champion of the world....

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    • By: Jim Corbett
    • Narrated by: Sandeep Pillai
    • Length: 7 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • This book talks about the experiences of hunter and conservationist Jim Corbett, during his years in the United Provinces, or what is now known as Uttarakhand....

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