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.
Book | Author/Editor | Publisher | ISBN | Ref |
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A Bangalore Diary | Ajay Bhaskar | Leadstart Publishing | ISBN 978-93-82473-75-6 | [3] |
Assimilation: A Study of North Indians in Bangalore | Vijaya Bhaskar Punekar | Popular 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 Cantonment | Peter Colaco | Via Media Books | [7] | |
Bangalore: An Expat Survival Guide | Chillibreeze | [8] | ||
Bangalore and Karnataka | Rajita Gadagkar | Infinitum Pub. | ISBN 978-81-902505-0-4 | [9] |
Bangalore Baloney | Thomas Itty | iMad Services | ISBN 978-0-9910587-0-9 | |
Bangalore Blue | Terry Kennedy | Split Shift | ISBN 978-0-9655547-3-2 | [10] |
Bangalore Calling | Brinda Sekhar Narayan | Little, Brown Book Group Limited | ISBN 978-93-5009-219-4 | [11] |
Bangalore Chronicles: A Kidnap | Vinay Ramakrishna | Notion Press | ISBN 978-93-5206-297-3 | |
Bangalore - Mysore | A. Raman | Orient Blackswan | ISBN 978-0-86311-431-1 | [12] |
Bangalored, the Expat Story | Eshwar Sundaresan | East West Books (Madras) | ISBN 978-81-88661-44-2 | [13] |
Bangalore: the story of a city | Maya Jayapal | Eastwest 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 Valley | John C. Stallmeyer | Routledge | ISBN 978-1-136-90397-7 | |
From Bangalore to Brooklyn | Primedia E-launch LLC | ISBN 978-1-62209-013-6 | ||
My Days in the Underworld: Rise of the Bangalore Mafia | Agni Sreedhar | Westland | ISBN 978-93-83260-34-8 | [16] [17] |
Bangalore through the Centuries | M. Fazlul Hasan | Historical Publications (Bangalore) |
Book | Author/Editor | Publisher | ISBN | Ref |
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Multiple City: Writings on Bangalore | Aditi De | Penguin Books India | ISBN 978-0-14-310025-6 | [18] |
Old Bungalows in Bangalore, South India | Janet Pott, Elizabeth Staley, Romola Chatterjee | Pott | ||
Our Bangalore: A Journey Through Time | N. Jagadeesh | Sapna Book House | ||
Roadmap to Bangalore?: Globalization, the EU's Lisbon Process and the Structures of Global Inequality | Almas Heshmati, Arno Tausch | Nova Science Publishers | ISBN 978-1-60021-478-3 | |
The Promise of the Metropolis: Bangalore's Twentieth Century | Janaki Nair | Oxford University Press | ISBN 978-0-19-566725-7 | [19] |
The Red Carpet | Lavanya Sankaran | |||
The Devadasi and the Saint: The Life and Times of Bangalore Nagarathnamma | V. Sriram | East West Books (Madras) | ISBN 978-81-88661-70-1 | [20] |
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