25 Top Novels Set In India/Pakistan During/Post British Raj
Explore the 25 best novels set in India and Pakistan during or after the British Raj. Discover gripping historical fiction, post-colonial tales, and British India classics that bring this era to life.
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Staying On
by Paul Scott
Colonel Tusker and Lucy Smalley cling to their bungalow in the hills of Pankot after Indian independence deprives them of their colonial status. Lucy, fed …
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A Passage to India
by Edward Morgan Forster
Adela Quested arrives in Chandrapore, prepared to meet and marry a city magistrate who exemplifies the narrow-minded, anti-Indian prejudices of the imperial bureaucracy, but an …
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Raj
by Gita Mehta
"An 'historical novel that traces the life of an Indian princess from her birth during the year of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee in 1897 until …
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
The story of Saleem Sinal, born precisely at midnight, August 15, 1947, the moment India became independent. Saleem's life parallels the history of his nation.
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A Suitable Boy
by Vikram Seth
Tells the story of four large extended families in 1950s India against the political and religious upheavals of the time.
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Brick Lane
by Monica Ali
Carrying into her adult years a sense of fatalism instilled during her hardscrabble birth, Nazneen finds herself married off to a man twice her age …
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Salt and Saffron
by Kamila Shamsie
Through this beautiful novel detailing the life and loves of a Pakistani girl returning home after living in the U.S., the larger tale of a …
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Holder of the World
by Bharati Mukherjee
“An amazing literary feat and a masterpiece of storytelling. Once again, Bharati Mukherjee prove she is one of our foremost writers, with the literary muscles …
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Bombay Time
by Thrity Umrigar
During the wedding of one of their neighbors, the longtime residents of a middle-class apartment building in Bombay look back on their lives, in a …
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