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Gandhi

1980
Briefly discusses his life and work, his background in India and South Africa, his rise to power, and his concept of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Asoka and Indian civilization

1980
Briefly discusses ancient India, Emperor Asoka, the Mauryan Empire, and Indian religions and contributions to world civilization.

The traveler's key to Northern India

a guide to the sacred places of Northern India
1983

Let's visit India

1984
An introduction to the geography, history, economy, government, people, and culture of the large south Asian country with a population of more than 700,000,000, fifteen major languages, and 800 dialects.

India, a civilization of differences

the ancient tradition of universal tolerance
2005
Studies the Hindu caste system in India, and argues that it is a natural ordering of diversity, where differences are accepted instead of ignored.

Darkness everywhere

the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi
Investigates the motives of the assassin Nathuram Godse and his fellow Hindu Nationalist conspirators in the murder of Mahatma Ghandi.

Karma

a novel in verse
2012
On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.

Sharpe's tiger

Richard Sharpe and the Siege of Seringapatam, 1799
1997

Gandhi

a life
1997
A complex, compelling, and beautifully rounded portrait of one of the monumnental figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The jungle book

2008
Mowgli, left alone in the jungle as a toddler after his parents are run off by Shere Khan, a Bengal tiger, grows to adulthood with the help of kind animals, always knowing his own showdown with the tiger is yet to come.

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