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Excellent Books about India and England
Books about English presence in India, the history of the British in India, or just about the history of India itself
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A Passage to India
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The Far Pavilions
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The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
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The God of Small Things
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Kim
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The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
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A Fine Balance
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The Secret Garden
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,285 ratings
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 234,938 ratings
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A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
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4.11 avg rating — 49,591 ratings
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The White Tiger
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3.77 avg rating — 200,784 ratings
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A Division of the Spoils (The Raj Quartet, #4)
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Shadow of the Moon
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Zemindar
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4.19 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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Heat and Dust
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Interpreter of Maladies
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4.18 avg rating — 203,967 ratings
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The Jungle Book
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3.90 avg rating — 131,232 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 854,821 ratings
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Sea of Poppies (Ibis Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 29,319 ratings
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The Raj Quartet
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4.49 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Burmese Days
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3.87 avg rating — 31,592 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 70,745 ratings
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White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India
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3.97 avg rating — 5,077 ratings
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Freedom At Midnight
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4.33 avg rating — 11,056 ratings
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Family Matters
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4.03 avg rating — 24,433 ratings
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
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4.19 avg rating — 8,461 ratings
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
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3.81 avg rating — 790 ratings
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The Moonstone
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3.91 avg rating — 97,705 ratings
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Gitanjali
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4.29 avg rating — 11,670 ratings
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The Day of the Scorpion (The Raj Quartet, #2)
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4.30 avg rating — 1,759 ratings
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The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2)
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3.89 avg rating — 173,864 ratings
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Brick Lane
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3.46 avg rating — 35,363 ratings
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The Towers of Silence (The Raj Quartet, #3)
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4.27 avg rating — 1,505 ratings
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Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II
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4.18 avg rating — 965 ratings
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Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
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4.20 avg rating — 2,063 ratings
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The Jungle Books
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4.01 avg rating — 88,789 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 171,944 ratings
score: 664,
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The Mistress of Spices
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 14,762 ratings
score: 652,
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City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi
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4.13 avg rating — 13,128 ratings
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Olivia and Jai
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4.13 avg rating — 1,330 ratings
score: 591,
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Talwar
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Robert Carter (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 99 ratings
score: 590,
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The River
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3.96 avg rating — 953 ratings
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The Rape of India: A Biography of Robert Clive and a Sexual History of the Conquest of Hindustan
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4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,325 ratings
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A Son of the Circus
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 21,156 ratings
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The Deceivers
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The Home and the World
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3.83 avg rating — 5,911 ratings
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The Moor's Last Sigh
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3.94 avg rating — 14,573 ratings
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The Man Who Would Be King
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3.69 avg rating — 12,977 ratings
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The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
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4.33 avg rating — 8,855 ratings
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Coromandel Sea Change
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3.89 avg rating — 580 ratings
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Women of the Raj
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3.83 avg rating — 665 ratings
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The Age of Kali: Indian Travels and Encounters
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Shame
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3.87 avg rating — 13,003 ratings
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The Kashmir Shawl
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Selected Short Stories
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4.23 avg rating — 7,346 ratings
score: 452,
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Bhowani Junction
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3.88 avg rating — 463 ratings
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Train to Pakistan
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3.94 avg rating — 31,464 ratings
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India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy
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4.39 avg rating — 18,085 ratings
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Cawnpore
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Tom Williams (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Go Clown - #AccheDin for Comedy
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Shatrugna Vadwlas (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 130 ratings
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Maitreyi
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3.78 avg rating — 25,183 ratings
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Taj: A Story of Mughal India
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3.78 avg rating — 607 ratings
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The City of Joy
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4.26 avg rating — 8,162 ratings
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Anil's Ghost
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3.59 avg rating — 18,686 ratings
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Selected Poems
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4.16 avg rating — 1,031 ratings
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Nightrunners of Bengal
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3.92 avg rating — 373 ratings
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Unaccustomed Earth
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4.14 avg rating — 95,932 ratings
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Beyond All Frontiers
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4.10 avg rating — 153 ratings
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The Lowland
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3.88 avg rating — 95,949 ratings
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An Invitation to Tea
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4.56 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Charting the Deep
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Manoshi Bhattacharya (Goodreads Author)
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In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
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3.86 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
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Round the World in Eighty Days
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3.95 avg rating — 277,109 ratings
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East of the Sun
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Julia Gregson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 8,495 ratings
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Gandhi: An Autobiography
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4.10 avg rating — 74,152 ratings
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Bugles and a Tiger: My Life in the Gurkhas
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4.32 avg rating — 393 ratings
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With Clive in India
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3.50 avg rating — 292 ratings
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Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,165 ratings
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The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
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Yasmin Cordery Khan (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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The Sun in the Morning: My Early Years in India and England
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4.23 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Hussein: An Entertainment
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3.76 avg rating — 141 ratings
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
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4.31 avg rating — 6,072 ratings
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East, West: Stories
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3.55 avg rating — 8,036 ratings
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Two Under the Indian Sun
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4.02 avg rating — 491 ratings
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Black Narcissus
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3.82 avg rating — 3,263 ratings
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A Flight of Pigeons
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3.85 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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Mandala
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3.61 avg rating — 1,111 ratings
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The Peacock Spring
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3.92 avg rating — 864 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,885 ratings
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The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
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Not Yet Drown'd
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3.58 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The Royal Rajputs: Strange Tales and Stranger Truths
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Manoshi Bhattacharya (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Many Many Many Gods of Hinduism: Turning believers into non-believers and non-believers into believers
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3.78 avg rating — 379 ratings
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Railonama
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Chittagong Summer of 1930
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4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Shalimar
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The Great Indian Mutiny
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Victoria and Abdul: The True Story of the Queen's Closest Confidant
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