Reading India Challenge

When I saw this post on #TheSundayBookClub Reads India, I knew I had to join the fun! The goal of this challenge is to read one book from every state and union territory in India - for a total of 29 states and 7 union territories.

This page will be my record of this reading challenge! Let's see how much of India I have covered.

States: 

Andhra Pradesh - 1947 Santoshabad Passenger and Other Stories, edited by Dasu Krishnamoorty and Tamraparni Dasu (I assume most writers are from Andhra Pradesh, Telugu story collection)
Arunachal Pradesh
Assam - The Bronze Sword of Thengpakhri Tehsildar by Indira Goswami, translated by Aruni Kashyap (Setting in Assam, author from Assam and writes in Assamese)
Bihar
Chhatisgarh
Goa
Gujarat
Haryana
Himachal Pradesh
Jammu and Kashmir
Jharkhand
Karnataka
Kerala
Madhya Pradesh
Maharastra - Dangerlok by Eunice de Souza (Author from there, set there)
Manipur
Meghalaya - Laburnum for my Head by Temsula Ao (Author taught in a university in Shillong)
Mizoram
Nagaland
Odisha
Punjab
Rajasthan
Sikkim - The King's Harvest by Chetan Raj Shreshta (Author from Sikkim, set in Sikkim)
Tamil Nadu - The Blaft Anthology of Tamil Pulp Fiction Vol. 1 edited by Rakesh Kanna, translated by Pritham K. Chakravarthy
Telangana
Tripura
Uttar Pradesh - Chander & Sudha by Dharamvir Bharati, translated by Poonam Saxena (Set in Allahabad, author is from Allahabad)
Uttarakhand
West Bengal - Mosquito and Other Stories by Premendra Mitra, translated by Amlan Das Gupta (Author is from Calcutta, set in Calcutta)

Union Territories: 

Lakshwadeep
Daman and Diu
Dadra and Nagar Haveli
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Chandigarh
Puducherry
NCT Delhi


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