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Are you interested in books about a specific country?
For biographies, I highly recommend Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins's Freedom at midnight, though it may not be contemporary enough for you. It is about the decolonisation and the partition of India and Pakistan, and gives an overview of the people included in this process, including Gandhi. Though it is a documentary book it is a very easy and fascinating read.
Current indian litterature offers a wide choice of interesting books. Out of the top of my head I'd cite the book which inspired the movie Slumdog Millionnaire, by Vikas Swarup (don't know the title in English, sorry). I havn't read it but heard many praises about it.
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