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Selected stories from Kipling's two "Jungle Books" chronicle the adventures of Mowgli, the boy reared by a pack of wolves in an Indian jungle. Also includes "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.".

In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.

In Uttar Pradesh, a woman's life is not entirely her own. Stories of forced marriages, early pregnancies and worse, the women of Uttar Pradesh have known they are not important. But this has changed with the emergence of the Gulabi (Pink) Gang. Sampat Pal, the leader of what has become known as the Pink Sari Revolution, and her women's brigade (numbering in the tens of thousands) have taken control. Uniformed in pink saris and carrying pink batons, they aim to intervene wherever other women are victims of abuse and injustice. Poor and illiterate, married off at age twelve, pregnant with her first child at fifteen, and prohibited from attending school, Sampat Pal has confronted policemen and gangsters and empowered Indian women to become financially independent.

Studies the full social, political, and economic context up to the transfer of power from Britain to India in 1947.

Jasbir, a.k.a. Jazz, is an obedient, traditional, Indian daughter and a stellar student. Her parents are very proud of her. Now that she's a junior in high school however, things have changed. Her mother hears that Jazz was seen hugging a boy on the street and immediately implements the Guided Dating Plan. Jazz can only date when her mother sets up blind dates with pre-screened Indian candidates. The boy her mother sets her up with however, is not at all what anyone expects and the new boy at school, the very unsuitable "hottie", is the one Jazz wants.

Discusses the history, major players, and ramifications of the Indian Independence Act.

Interweaves the story of a baby girl in India, the American doctor who adopted her, and the Indian mother, who, in order to save her baby's life, gave her up for adoption.

India, at the peak of the British colonial era, complete with the racial tension that underscores every aspect of daily life. Into this setting comes Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore, British visitors to Chandrapore who, despite their "Britishness" are eager for a more savory taste of India.