india

Tells of a simple peasant woman in a primitive village in India whose whole life was a gallant and persistent battle to care for those she loved.

Vishnu dreams of being a snake charmer like his father and longs to go to the city to charm snakes while the tourists watch, but his father thinks education is more important, so Vishnu must stay home.

As Rosalind continues to straddle the proper English world of her family and the culture of 1920s India where they live, her support of Gandhi and his followers in opposing British rule grows and she considers trying to carry the rebels' message to Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit.

Bhupinder, a schoolboy in a small village in India, learns about Rajasthan and the Rajput warriors who protected that large, magnificent state many years before, then later finds himself helping to defeat an entire Moghul army. Includes facts about daily life in India and a recipe for Lassi.

Describes the importance of a banyan tree to an Indian village.

Retells thirty of the five hundred tales told by the Buddha some five hundred years before the Christian era.

The author describes her life of poverty until a job working as a singer with a fellow artist led her to discover her own artistic talent.

Explores the history, culture, and society of India through a look at the lives of three children, including Shubba, a young Tamil from the southern town of Thanjavur, Jyoti, a ten-year-old inhabitant of Calcutta, and Bhagat, the son of a poor farmer.