Reading List
Listed below are the books that I have enjoyed reading, as well as the ones that have taught me a great deal. Books mentioned in blue are the ones I highly recommend.
Legal (India)
Abhinav Chandrachud, Republic of Rhetoric: Free Speech and the Constitution of India (Penguin:207)
Abhinav Chandrachud, Supreme Whispers: Supreme Court Judges, 1980-90 (Penguin: 2018)
Arun K Thiruvengadam, The Constitution of India: A Contextual Analysis (Constitutional Systems of the World) (Bloomsbury: 2017)
Gautam Bhatia, Offend, Shock or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution (Oxford: 2018)
George H Godbois, Supreme Court of India: The Beginnings (Oxford: 2018)
H.M. Seervai, Constitutional Law of India, 4th ed. (2015)
Madhav Khosla, The Indian Constitution (Oxford: 2012)
Prashant Bhushan, The Case that Shook India, (Penguin)
Rama Goyal, Saving India from Indira, (Rupa)
Rohit De, A People’s Constitution, (Princeton University Press: 2018)
Sudhir Krishnaswamy, Democracy and Constitutionalism in India: A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine (Oxford: 2010)
Sujit Chowdhary, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution (Oxford: 2016)
Subhash Kashyap, Our Parliament (2016)
Zia Modi, 10 Judgments that Changed India (Penguin: 2013)
Legal (International)
Akhil Reed Amar, America’s Unwritten Constitution (Basic Books: 2015)
Akhil Reed Amar, The Constitution Today (Basic Books: 2016)
Akhil Reed Amar, The Law of the Land (Basic Books: 2015)
Bob Woodward, The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court (Simon: 2005)
Chintan Chandrachud, Balanced Constitutionalism: Courts and Legislatures in India and United Kingdom (Oxford:2016)
Lary Meter, United States v. Nixon: The Question of Executive Privilege (Chelsea House: 2007)
Lord Denning, The Due Process of Law, (Oxford)
Tim Mcneese, Dred Scott v. Sandford: The Pursuit of Freedom (Chelsea House: 2007)
Tim Mcneese, Plessy v. Fergusson: Separate but Equal (Chelsea House: 2007)
Autobiographies/Biographies
F. Nariman, Before Memory Fades, (Hay House)
H.R. Khanna, Neither Roses nor Thorns (EBC: 2010)
M.C. Chagla, Roses in December, (Bhawan’s Book University)
M.C. Setalvad, My Life: Law and Other Things, (Universal Law Publishing)
Nadia Murad, The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity and My Fight against the Islamic State (Virago: 2017)
Shashi Tharoor, Nehru: The Invention of India (Penguin: 2012)
History
J. Nehru, The Glimpses of World History, (Penguin)
Rana Safvi, The City of Heart, (Hachette India)
William Dalrymple, Kohinoor: The Story of the World’s Most Infamous Diamond (Juggernaut: 2016)
William Dalrymple, The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters (Bloomsbury: 2017)
Others
Prashant Bhushan, The Case That Shook India: The Verdict that led to the Emergency (Penguin: 2018)
Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness
Shashi Tharoor, The Paradoxical Prime Minister
Shashi Tharoor: Why I am a Hindu