The history your textbooks left out.
Researched books on Indian and Islamic history by Salim Khan, in plain English. More than 80,000 copies sold to readers across India.
from 497 reader reviews
- 80,000+ copies sold across India
- 4.7 average from 497 reviews
- Reviewed in The Wire
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- The freedom struggle Tipu, Bhagat Singh and the Muslims who fought for India3 titles
- Islamic history Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina and the scholars who led the world3 titles
- Karbala The story of Husain and what came after1 title
- Palestine The land, its people and its history, in two parts1 title
- Sets and gifts Books that belong together, for your shelf or as a gift3 sets
All eight books
All written by Salim Khan, in plain English.
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Muslim Freedom Fighters of India
Parts 1 and 2, 638 pages
₹699 -
Tipu Sher-e-Mysore
340 pages with 40 plates
₹599 -
The Golden Age of Islam
What it was and why it matters
₹699 -
Blood in Karbala
And its aftermath
₹699 -
The Warriors of Islam
The commanders who shaped an era
₹699 -
Shaheed-e-Azam
Who was Bhagat Singh?
₹699 -
Muhammad ibn Qasim
How Islam reached India
₹499 -
The Land Called Palestine
Parts 1 and 2
₹1,499
The names inside
Muslim Freedom Fighters of India follows 200 years of resistance, from the Battle of Plassey to independence. These are a few of the people you meet in its 638 pages.
Muslim Freedom Fighters of India₹699 for both parts
Part 1, from Plassey to 1857
- Siraj ud-Daulah
- Tipu Sultan
- Bahadur Shah Zafar
- Begum Hazrat Mahal
- Bakht Khan
- Khan Bahadur Khan
Part 2, the road to 1947
- Ashfaqulla Khan
- Maulana Mohammad Ali Jauhar
- Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
- Hasrat Mohani
- Dr Mukhtar Ahmed Ansari
- Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
- Rafi Ahmed Kidwai
Read them together
Books that carry on each other’s story, in a single order.
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The Freedom Fighters set
- Muslim Freedom Fighters of India, Parts 1 and 2
- Tipu Sher-e-Mysore
₹1,298delivered free when you pay online
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The Islamic history set
- The Golden Age of Islam
- The Warriors of Islam
- Muhammad ibn Qasim
₹1,89710% off when you pay online
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The complete library
- Muslim Freedom Fighters, Parts 1 and 2
- Tipu Sher-e-Mysore
- The Golden Age of Islam
- The Warriors of Islam
- Blood in Karbala
- Muhammad ibn Qasim
- Shaheed-e-Azam
₹4,59315% off when you pay online
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Building a library?
Pay online and the discount grows with your order.
- Free deliveryon every prepaid order
- 10% offon orders above ₹1,500
- 15% offon orders above ₹2,500
Open the book
Newspapers, court papers, coins and portraits from the period are printed beside the text, so you see the evidence as well as read it.
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The Tribune, 25 March 1931: Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev executed. In Shaheed-e-Azam -
Tipu's own coinage, photographed for the book. In Tipu Sher-e-Mysore -
The jail superintendent's certificate that Bhagat Singh was hanged on 23 March 1931. In Shaheed-e-Azam -
Richard Wellesley, the man who decided Tipu should not be left alive. In Tipu Sher-e-Mysore -
Al-Battani measured the year at 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds, without a telescope. In The Golden Age of Islam -
Mohammad Dervish Khan, Tipu's ambassador to France. In Tipu Sher-e-Mysore -
A Russian soldier lighting a Congreve rocket, a design copied from Tipu's rockets. In Tipu Sher-e-Mysore -
Page 67: why Newton's second law rests on al-Khwarizmi's algebra. In The Golden Age of Islam
“Why we need a book about Muslims who fought for India’s freedom”
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