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60 Essential English-Language Works of Modern Indian Literature - World Literature Today

List published in the November 2010 issue of World Literature Today.
There are more than 60 books in this list because there is a trilogy (I added each tome), then a couple of books were in two volumes.
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The Veiled Suite (Agha Shahid Ali)
The Veiled Suite (Agha Shahid Ali)
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Corridor (Sarnath Banerjee)
Corridor (Sarnath Banerjee)
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The Simoqin Prophecies (Samit Basu)
The Simoqin Prophecies (Samit Basu)
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The Manticore's Secret (Samit Basu)
The Manticore's Secret (Samit Basu)
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Unwaba Revelations (Samit Basu)
Unwaba Revelations (Samit Basu)
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English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
English, August (Upamanyu Chatterjee)
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Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Vikram Chandra)
Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Vikram Chandra)
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A Strange and Sublime Address (Amit Chaudhuri)
A Strange and Sublime Address (Amit Chaudhuri)
9
Arzee the Dwarf (Chandrahas Choudhury)
Arzee the Dwarf (Chandrahas Choudhury)
10
Collected Poems 1970–2005 (Keki Daruwalla)
Collected Poems 1970–2005 (Keki Daruwalla)
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Solo (Rana Dasgupta)
Solo (Rana Dasgupta)
12
The Point of Return (Siddhartha Deb)
The Point of Return (Siddhartha Deb)
13
In Custody (Anita Desai)
In Custody (Anita Desai)
14
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss
15
Collected Plays, Volume 1 (Mahesh Dattani)
Collected Plays, Volume 1 (Mahesh Dattani)
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Collected Plays, Volume 2 (Mahesh Dattani)
Collected Plays, Volume 2 (Mahesh Dattani)
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Collected Stories, Volume 1 (Shashi Deshpande)
Collected Stories, Volume 1 (Shashi Deshpande)
18
Collected Stories, Volume 2 (Shashi Deshpande)
Collected Stories, Volume 2 (Shashi Deshpande)
19
The Circle of Reason (Amitav Ghosh)
The Circle of Reason (Amitav Ghosh)
20
The Glassblower's Breath (Sunetra Gupta)
The Glassblower's Breath (Sunetra Gupta)
21
The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (Indrajit Hazra)
The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (Indrajit Hazra)
22
Difficult Daughters (Manju Kapur)
Difficult Daughters (Manju Kapur)
23
Looking Through Glass (Mukul Kesavan)
Looking Through Glass (Mukul Kesavan)
24
Jejuri (Arun Kolatkar)
Jejuri (Arun Kolatkar)
25
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
26
The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974–2008 (Jayanta Mahapatra)
The Lie of Dawns: Poems 1974–2008 (Jayanta Mahapatra)
27
Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry)
Such a Long Journey (Rohinton Mistry)
28
Collected Poems, 1954-2004 (Dom Moraes)
Collected Poems, 1954-2004 (Dom Moraes)
29
The Middleman and Other Stories (Baharati Mukherji)
The Middleman and Other Stories (Baharati Mukherji)
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Collected Poems (A. K. Ramanujan)
Collected Poems (A. K. Ramanujan)
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An Atlas of Impossible Longing (Anuradha Roy)
An Atlas of Impossible Longing (Anuradha Roy)
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The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
33
Midnight'S Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight'S Children (Salman Rushdie)
34
Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems (Sudeep Sen)
Postmarked India: New and Selected Poems (Sudeep Sen)
35
The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)
The Golden Gate (Vikram Seth)
36
Train to Pakistan (Khushwant Singh)
Train to Pakistan (Khushwant Singh)
37
The Alchemy of Desire (Tarun J. Tejpal)
The Alchemy of Desire (Tarun J. Tejpal)
38
The Great Indian Novel (Shashi Tharoor)
The Great Indian Novel (Shashi Tharoor)
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Written for Ever: The Best of Civil Lines (Rukun Advani)
Written for Ever: The Best of Civil Lines (Rukun Advani)
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Indian Love Poems (Meena Alexander)
Indian Love Poems (Meena Alexander)
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