The most popular South Asia books of 2025

Passover on Everest

Rachelle Burk

Islamic Law on Trial

Sohaira Z. M. Siddiqui

Heart Lamp

Banu Mushtaq

"Memories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint"

Siddhanta Das

Glorious Failure The Forgotten History of French Imperialism in India

Robert Ivermee

The India of Aurangzib Topography, Statistics, and Roads Compared with the India of Akbar with Extracts from the Khulasatu-T-Tawarikh and the Chahar Gulshan

Jadunath Sarkar

Nalanda How It Changed the World

Abhay K.

Fulkumari The Tale of a Refugee and a Rat in Pandemic Paris

Pinaki Bhattacharya

The Myth of Mughal Glory A History of Blood, Betrayal & Vice

VIKAS Thusoo

Monsoon Voyagers An Indian Ocean History

Fahad Ahmad Bishara

Life in the Sky Ups, Downs, and Missed Connections of a Frequent Flyer

Fraser Green

Kalinga and Southeast Asia A Saga of Shared Civilizations

Patit Paban Mishra

On the Other Side

Rahman Abbas

The Unbroken Subcontinent Why the Mongols Failed in India

Borna Ahadi

Scientific Memoirs by Officers of the Medical and Sanitary Departments of the Government of India. No. 28

Speaking with Nature The Origins of Indian Environmentalism

Ramachandra Guha

Eternal Bharat Truth, Meaning and Beauty

Subhash Kak

One Year and a One-Way Ticket Ditching My Mother's Five-Year Plan to Travel Solo

Danika Smith

Mostly about Bengal - Essays in Modern South Asian History

John Broomfield

A Sea of Wealth The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace

Nicholas P. Roberts

Revolution Within Nampudiri Women As Agents of Social Reform in Kerala

T. k. Anandi

The Wandering Pilgrim Expeditions to the NZ Alps, Changabang, Khan Tengri, Everest and Broad Peak

John Dunlop

Lost in Transit A Romantic Misadventure about Love, Loss, Excess Baggage and Karma

Chris Bates

Wild Races of South-Eastern India

T. H. Lewin