Books like Mother India by Katherine Mayo

A firsthand account of Indian independence, detailing the last days of British rule, the partition, and Gandhi’s legacy, as narrated by historian Dominique Lapierre.

political history

An insightful survey of India's ancient and modern history, civilization, and culture, written by Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, offering a holistic view of the nation's heritage.

India Unbound charts the nation’s rapid social, political, and economic transformation over the last fifty years, blending personal narrative with analytical insight into its rise as a free‑market democracy and information‑economy power.

A classic of feminism, *Backlash* exposes the backlash against women's rights.

Women and Economics is Gilman's most original and famous work of nonfiction. In it she examines the origins of women's subordination and its function in society. Woman, she argues, makes a living by marriage - not by the work she does - and thus man becomes her economic environment. As a consequence, her "female" attributes dominate her "human" qualities because they determine her survival. Gilman's thesis challenges both biological and theological arguments about women's innate passivity and defies the virtual exclusion of women in classical sociological theory. If women are to fully engage in domestic and public life, Gilman contends that their emancipation requires both economic participation and adequate child care. Gilman's argument in this classic work resonates today, as women continue their struggle to find a meaningful independent identity and to balance work and family. Here reprinted with a new introduction, Women and Economics belongs on the same shelf as works by Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, and other pioneering feminists.

Beyond Power explores how power shapes gender relations, drawing on anthropology, history, political science, law and theology to uncover the roots and consequences of patriarchy.