Title↕ | Author↕ | Year↕ | Setting↕ | Major Award↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Midnight's Children | Salman Rushdie | 1981 | India 1947-1977 | Booker Prize |
The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | London / Bombay | Whitbread Award |
The God of Small Things | Arundhati Roy | 1997 | Kerala | Booker Prize |
The White Tiger | Aravind Adiga | 2008 | Bangalore / Delhi | Booker Prize |
A Fine Balance | Rohinton Mistry | 1995 | Bombay Emergency era | Giller Prize |
Such a Long Journey | Rohinton Mistry | 1991 | Bombay 1971 | Governor General's |
Family Matters | Rohinton Mistry | 2002 | Bombay | Kiriyama Prize |
The Inheritance of Loss | Kiran Desai | 2006 | Kalimpong / New York | Booker Prize |
Sea of Poppies | Amitav Ghosh | 2008 | Colonial India / opium trade | Crossword Prize |
The Shadow Lines | Amitav Ghosh | 1988 | Calcutta / London / Dhaka | Sahitya Akademi |
The Hungry Tide | Amitav Ghosh | 2004 | Sundarbans | Crossword Prize |
A Suitable Boy | Vikram Seth | 1993 | Post-independence India | Commonwealth Writers |
The English Teacher | R.K. Narayan | 1945 | Malgudi | None |
The Guide | R.K. Narayan | 1958 | Malgudi | Sahitya Akademi |
Untouchable | Mulk Raj Anand | 1935 | North India | None |
Kanthapura | Raja Rao | 1938 | Karnataka village | None |
Clear Light of Day | Anita Desai | 1980 | Old Delhi | None |
In Custody | Anita Desai | 1984 | Delhi | None |
The Namesake | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2003 | Calcutta / Boston | None |
Interpreter of Maladies | Jhumpa Lahiri | 1999 | India / America | Pulitzer Prize |
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness | Arundhati Roy | 2017 | Delhi / Kashmir | None |
The Lowland | Jhumpa Lahiri | 2013 | Calcutta / Rhode Island | DSC Prize |
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