Query: 2009 Indian novels or Indian historical novels in English
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Ayussinte Pusthakam
The Great Indian Novel
The Confession of Sultana Daku
River of Smoke
Train to Pakistan
2 States: The Story of My Marriage
Muhammad Bin Tughlaq: Tale of a Tyrant
The Shadow Lines
The Glass Palace
Francis Itty Cora
Flood of Fire
The Hungry Tide
Evidence from documents: Ayussinte Pusthakam: '''''Ayussinte Pusthakam''''' (transl. The Book of Passing Shadows) (), is a well-known Indian Malayalam language novel by C. V. Balakrishnan.
The Great Indian Novel: '''''The Great Indian Novel''''' is a satirical novel by Shashi Tharoor, first published by Viking Press in 1989. It is a fictional work that takes the story of the ''Mahabharata'', the Indian epic, and recasts and resets it in the context of the Indian Independence Movement and the first three decades post-independence.
The Confession of Sultana Daku: '''''The Confession of Sultana Daku''''' is a 2009 historical novel by Sujit Saraf. The novel is about the swashbuckling criminal career of Sultana Daku (''Daku'' is the Hindi for bandit ), undisputedly the most notorious dacoit in modern India's history.
River of Smoke: historical novels: Tessa Hadley in ''The Guardian'' says "In historical novels the past can sometimes feel tamed; hindsight, hovering just off the page, tells us that we know what it all added up to and what came of it (the First Opium War, during which British gunboats enforced a treaty opening Chinese ports to international trade, comes shortly after the ending of this novel).
Indian: '''''River of Smoke''''' (2011) is a novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh.
Train to Pakistan: historical novels: '''''Train to Pakistan''''' is a historical novel by writer Khushwant Singh, published in 1956.
Indian: It recounts the Partition of India in August 1947 through the perspective of Mano Majra, a fictional border village.
2 States: The Story of My Marriage: ''''2 States: The Story of My Marriage''''' commonly known as '''''2 States''''' is a 2009 novel written by Chetan Bhagat. It is the story about a couple coming from two states in India, who face hardships in convincing their parents to approve of their marriage.
Muhammad Bin Tughlaq: Tale of a Tyrant: 2009 Indian novels: '''''Muhammad Bin Tughlaq: Tale of a Tyrant''''' is a historical fiction written by Indian author, Anuja Chandramouli and published by Penguin Random House in 2019.
Indian historical novels: The book's genre is historical fiction and it is written by Indian author Anuja Chandramouli.
The Shadow Lines: Indian: '''''The Shadow Lines''''' (1988) is a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
historical novels: The novel is set against the backdrop of historical events like the Swadeshi movement, Second World War, Partition of India and Communal riots of 1963-64 in Dhaka and Calcutta.
English: The novel earned Ghosh the 1989 Sahitya Akademi Award for English, by the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters.
The Glass Palace: is a novel published in the year 2000 a historical novel by Indian writer Amitav Ghosh.
Francis Itty Cora: is a bestselling mystery novel in Malayalam by author T. D. Ramakrishnan.
The 2009 novel received considerable acclaims
Flood of Fire: Indian: '''''Flood of Fire''''' is a 2015 novel by Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh. Following the ''Sea of Poppies'' (2008) and ''River of Smoke'' (2011), the novel is the final installment of the Ibis trilogy, which concerns the 19th-century opium trade between India and China.
historical novels: Nilanjana Roy of ''Business Standard'' called the novel as "a brisk read for all of the dense historical research and period detail crammed into these 616 pages" and mentioned that "the strongest criticism of the Ibis trilogy is that it sometimes reads like a historical novel of that period, not just a historical novel about that period".
in English: The book was first published by the English publisher John Murray, and later by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.
The Hungry Tide: '''''The Hungry Tide''''' (2004) is the sixth novel by Indian-born author, Amitav Ghosh. It won the 2004 Hutch Crossword Book Award for Fiction.
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