Important Books and Their Authors - Theory

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📚 Important Books and Their Authors (From Ancient to Modern Times)

🕉️ Ancient Indian Literature

1. Astadhyayi – Panini

2. Ramayana – Valmiki

3. Mahabharata – Veda Vyasa

4. Bhagavad Gita – Veda Vyasa

5. Panchtantra – Vishnu Sharma

6. Arthashastra – Kautilya / Vishnugupta / Chanakya

7. Buddhacharita – Asvaghosa

8. Kama Sutra – Vatsyayana

9. Rajatarangini – Kalhana

10. Indica – Megasthenes

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🎭 Classical Sanskrit Literature (Kalidasa and Others)

1. Meghaduta – Kalidasa

2. Abhigyan Shakuntalam – Kalidasa

3. Mālavikāgnimitram – Kalidasa

4. Raghuvansham – Kalidasa

5. Vikramorvashi – Kalidasa

6. Harshacharita – Banabhatta

7. Kadambari – Banabhatta

8. Mudra Rakshasa – Vishakhadatta

9. Amarkosa – Amarasimha

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🕌 Medieval Indian Literature

1. Padmavat – Malik Muhammad Jayasi

2. Akbarnama – Abul Fazal

3. Tuzk-e-Babri (Baburnama) – Babar

4. Tuzk-e-Jahangiri – Jahangir

5. Humayun-nama – Gulbadan Begum

6. Gulamgiri – Jyotiba Phule

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🇮🇳 Modern Indian Literature

1. Geetanjali – Rabindranath Tagore

2. The Guide – R.K. Narayan

3. Two Lives – Vikram Seth

4. Shadow Lines – Amitav Ghosh

5. The Great Indian Novel – Shashi Tharoor

6. Kerala: God’s Own Country – Shashi Tharoor

7. Delhi is Not Far – Ruskin Bond

8. Pinjar – Amrita Pritam

9. A Passage to England – Nirad C. Chaudhuri

10. A History of the Sikhs – Khushwant Singh

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🌍 World Literature & Influential Works

1. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking

2. The Origin of Species – Charles Darwin

3. Economy and Society – Max Weber

4. The Audacity of Hope – Barack Obama

5. Becoming – Michelle Obama

6. The Google Story – David A. Vise

7. Every Child Matters – Kailash Satyarthi

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🧘‍♂️ Autobiographies & Biographies

1. My Experiments with Truth – Mahatma Gandhi

2. Wings of Fire – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

3. An Autobiography – Jawaharlal Nehru

4. Playing It My Way – Sachin Tendulkar

5. Straight from the Heart – Kapil Dev

6. A Century is Not Enough – Sourav Ganguly

7. Unbreakable – Mary Kom

8. The Bandit Queen of India – Phoolan Devi

9. My Life, My Mission – Baba Ramdev

10. Thoughts on Pakistan – Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

11. Why I Am an Atheist – Bhagat Singh

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💞 Popular Fiction & Contemporary Novels

1. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie

2. 2 States – Chetan Bhagat

3. 400 Days – Chetan Bhagat

4. The 3 Mistakes of My Life – Chetan Bhagat

5. Target 3 Billion – A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

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🕊️ Special Note

Anandamath – Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay
(Introduced the famous song “Vande Mataram”)

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