india

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.

Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.

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.

A young aspiring detective narrates the known facts of an unsolved historical mystery--the discovery in a forest in India of two girls said to have been raised by wolves--and challenges the reader to come up with a solution.

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

Describes India's physical environment and the effects of colonialism before going on to discuss the current social and economic situations and a possible future.

Fifteen-year-old Anand and his friend Nisha travel to the forbidden world of Shadowland in search of the conch, which provides energy for the valley which has become a wasteland since it has been stolen.

Grandfather tells many stories about his native India in answer to Ravi and Anjali's questions, such as the tale of a procession of elephants on the feast of Divaali when he was a boy. Includes facts about life in India, a list of cooking spices, and descriptions of Indian animals.

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.

A color-illustrated, unabridged edition of the three Rudyard Kipling stories about Mowgli, in which the man-cub is raised by wolves, learns the Law of the Jungle from Baloo the bear and the others, is kidnapped by the Monkey People, and squares off against the tiger Shere Khan.