india

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Food in India

2008
Explores India's food, cooking, and food-related customs; describes the country's climate and agriculture; and includes a recipe.

India

1996
Discusses ways Indians recreate, including exercise, sports, games, folk dances, and kite fighting.

India

1994
Looks at everyday life and customs in India, including geographical, historical, and social information, with related craft ideas, games, and activities.

Gandhi, a pictorial biography

2009
A biography of Mohandas Gandhi, a spiritual and political leader in the movement for Indian independence, featuring over 150 historical photographs with accompanying text that follow his life from boyhood to his death.

Nectar in a sieve

2002
A traditional peasant woman in early twentieth-century India struggles with poverty and the changes arriving in her agrarian village, particularly the tanning factory that takes her son's life.

Buddha

a story of enlightenment
2007

Koyal dark, mango sweet

2007
Growing up with her family in Mumbai, India, sixteen-year-old Jeeta disagrees with much of her mother's traditional advice about how to live her life and tries to be more modern and independent.

Gandhi, the man

the story of his transformation
1997
A biography of the man, M.K. Gandhi, discussing how his way of life and belief in war without violence helped create a free India.

Indira Gandhi

an intimate biography
1992
A biography of one of the first women heads of state showing how Indira grew from the shy daughter of the great Jawaharlal Nehru to the accomplished politician she eventually became.

The Ganges

1992
The author's journey along the Ganges River from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal between India and Bangladesh.

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