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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