📚 Chapter 07 · Topic 06 · Books & Authors

Books & Authors — Complete Revision

All important books and authors — master table for quick exam revision.

⚡ Books & Authors — Master Quick Reference

Book	Author	Key Fact
My Experiments with Truth	Mahatma Gandhi	Autobiography; originally in Gujarati
Hind Swaraj	Mahatma Gandhi	1909; critique of modern civilisation
The Discovery of India	Jawaharlal Nehru	Written in Ahmednagar Fort prison (1944)
Glimpses of World History	Jawaharlal Nehru	Letters to Indira Gandhi from prison
An Autobiography	Jawaharlal Nehru	Written in Almora Prison (1935)
Annihilation of Caste	B.R. Ambedkar	1936; critique of caste system
The Buddha and His Dhamma	B.R. Ambedkar	1956; holy book for Navayana Buddhism
Gita Rahasya	Bal Gangadhar Tilak	Written in Mandalay prison (1910–14)
The Indian Struggle	Subhas Chandra Bose	Indian independence movement 1920–1942
Poverty and Un-British Rule in India	Dadabhai Naoroji	Drain of wealth theory (1901)
India Wins Freedom	Maulana Abul Kalam Azad	Partition account; 30 pages sealed for 30 years
Wings of Fire	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	Autobiography; with Arun Tiwari
India 2020	A.P.J. Abdul Kalam	Vision for India’s development
Indian Philosophy	S. Radhakrishnan	Philosopher-President; 2 volumes
India Divided	Rajendra Prasad	Against partition of India
Arthashastra	Kautilya (Chanakya)	Ancient political economy
Indica	Megasthenes	Greek ambassador’s account of Mauryan India
Ain-i-Akbari	Abul Fazl	Akbar’s administration
Baburnama	Babur	Autobiography of first Mughal emperor
Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie	Booker 1981; “Booker of Bookers”
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	Booker 1997; Kerala setting
The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai	Booker 2006; Darjeeling setting
The White Tiger	Aravind Adiga	Booker 2008; class struggle
Tomb of Sand (Ret Samadhi)	Geetanjali Shree	International Booker 2022; first Hindi novel
Long Walk to Freedom	Nelson Mandela	Anti-apartheid autobiography
India After Gandhi	Ramachandra Guha	History of independent India
The Argumentative Indian	Amartya Sen	India’s intellectual traditions

✅ Master Revision Checklist — Chapter 07

✅ Gandhi = My Experiments with Truth (autobiography) + Hind Swaraj (1909)
✅ Nehru = Discovery of India + Glimpses of World History + Autobiography = all written in prison
✅ Ambedkar = Annihilation of Caste + The Buddha and His Dhamma
✅ Tilak = Gita Rahasya (Mandalay prison) + The Arctic Home in the Vedas
✅ Bose = The Indian Struggle + An Indian Pilgrim
✅ Dadabhai Naoroji = Poverty and Un-British Rule in India = drain of wealth
✅ Maulana Azad = India Wins Freedom = 30 pages sealed for 30 years
✅ Kalam = Wings of Fire (autobiography) + India 2020 + Ignited Minds
✅ Radhakrishnan = Indian Philosophy + The Hindu View of Life
✅ Arthashastra = Kautilya; Indica = Megasthenes; Ain-i-Akbari = Abul Fazl
✅ Salman Rushdie = Midnight’s Children = Booker 1981 = “Booker of Bookers”
✅ Arundhati Roy = The God of Small Things = Booker 1997
✅ Kiran Desai = The Inheritance of Loss = Booker 2006
✅ Aravind Adiga = The White Tiger = Booker 2008
✅ Geetanjali Shree = Tomb of Sand = International Booker 2022 = first Hindi novel
✅ Mandela = Long Walk to Freedom = autobiography = 27 years in prison