Bibliography of Bangalore

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This is a bibliography of Bangalore (or Bengaluru), books about the city, its history, culture, geography, and its people. Many books have been written on the city. Some of the most notable books are The Red Carpet (2005) by Lavanya Sankaran, Bangalored: The Expat Story (2006) by Eshwar Sundaresan, Multiple City: Writings on Bangalore (2008) by Aditi De etc. [1] [2] Other than the books written on Bangalore, there are fictions such as Riddle of the Seventh Stone (2010) by Monideepa Sahu, The Lilac House: A Novel (2012) by Anita Nair, The Lost Girl (2012) by Sangu Mandanna etc. which are set in the city.

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BookAuthor/EditorPublisherISBNRef
A Bangalore DiaryAjay BhaskarLeadstart Publishing ISBN   978-93-82473-75-6 [3]
Assimilation: A Study of North Indians in BangaloreVijaya Bhaskar PunekarPopular Prakashan ISBN   978-81-7154-012-9 [4]
Bangalore Kerry James Evans Consortium Book Sales & Dist ISBN   978-1-55659-405-2 [5] [6]
Bangalore - A Century of Tales from City CantonmentPeter ColacoVia Media Books [7]
Bangalore: An Expat Survival GuideChillibreeze [8]
Bangalore and KarnatakaRajita GadagkarInfinitum Pub. ISBN   978-81-902505-0-4 [9]
Bangalore BaloneyThomas IttyiMad Services ISBN   978-0-9910587-0-9
Bangalore BlueTerry KennedySplit Shift ISBN   978-0-9655547-3-2 [10]
Bangalore CallingBrinda Sekhar NarayanLittle, Brown Book Group Limited ISBN   978-93-5009-219-4 [11]
Bangalore Chronicles: A KidnapVinay RamakrishnaNotion Press ISBN   978-93-5206-297-3
Bangalore - MysoreA. RamanOrient Blackswan ISBN   978-0-86311-431-1 [12]
Bangalored, the Expat StoryEshwar SundaresanEast West Books (Madras) ISBN   978-81-88661-44-2 [13]
Bangalore: the story of a cityMaya JayapalEastwest Books (Madras) ISBN   978-81-86852-09-5 [14]
Bombay to Bangalore Sudha Murthy Penguin Books Limited ISBN   978-93-5118-052-4 [15]
Building Bangalore: Architecture and urban transformation in India’s Silicon ValleyJohn C. Stallmeyer Routledge ISBN   978-1-136-90397-7
From Bangalore to BrooklynPrimedia E-launch LLC ISBN   978-1-62209-013-6
My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia Agni SreedharWestland ISBN   978-93-83260-34-8 [16] [17]
Bangalore through the Centuries M. Fazlul HasanHistorical Publications (Bangalore)

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BookAuthor/EditorPublisherISBNRef
Multiple City: Writings on BangaloreAditi De Penguin Books India ISBN   978-0-14-310025-6 [18]
Old Bungalows in Bangalore, South IndiaJanet Pott, Elizabeth Staley, Romola ChatterjeePott
Our Bangalore: A Journey Through TimeN. JagadeeshSapna Book House
Roadmap to Bangalore?: Globalization, the EU's Lisbon Process and the Structures of Global InequalityAlmas Heshmati, Arno Tausch Nova Science Publishers ISBN   978-1-60021-478-3
The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth CenturyJanaki Nair Oxford University Press ISBN   978-0-19-566725-7 [19]
The Red CarpetLavanya Sankaran
The Devadasi and the Saint: The Life and Times of Bangalore NagarathnammaV. SriramEast West Books (Madras) ISBN   978-81-88661-70-1 [20]

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