Here are some books that might help to whet your appetite for India or may just be of interest…

 

INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

 Raghu Rai his books are not easy to come by but include 

Taj Mahal  Tibet in Exile  Delhi  Khajurao and many more.

 Raghubir Singh   Rivers of Colour, a collection of his photos is obtainable as are other of his books such as those about Benares and Calcutta and other parts of India. Aperture publish his work!

GUIDE BOOKS

The Lonely Planet Guide to India

Footprints Guide to India

The Rough Guide to India

           …all come recommended

BOOKS written about INDIA

There are of course too many to mention! However, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, V.S.Naipaul has written some excellent volumes such as 
India: a wounded civilisation, 
An area of Darkness and India: A Million Mutinies Now

William Dalrymple’s Age of Kali  is a good introduction as his book A Year in Delhi

NOVELS from INDIA

Salman Rushdie has written several classics; Midnight’s Children deals with Partition

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy recently won the Booker Prize

Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai

Heat and Dust by Ruth Prabhawala

A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

There many other excellent contemporary Indian authors and of course, Rudyard Kipling’s books.