india

In the wake of the 1947 Partition of India, twin Hindu boys search for their mother in a crowded train station, a young girl flees the father who would poison her to protect her from infidels, and a Muslim doctor finds new roles as a healer.

Growing up in the Bengal region of India, motherless daughter Bakul and Mukunda, an orphan, are inseparable, but after they grow older and their relationship turns into something more than friendship, Mukunda is banished to Calcutta, where he prospers during India's Partition, yet yearns to be back with Bakul.

In 1974 when her father leaves New Delhi, India, to seek a job in New York, Ashi, a tomboy at the advanced age of sixteen, feels thwarted in the home of her extended family in Calcutta where she, her mother, and sister must stay, and when her father dies before he can send for them, they must remain with their relatives and observe the old-fashioned traditions that Ashi hates.

A series of essays that expresses various perspectives on India, including foreign policy and human rights.

On a December Day in 1969 twins Rahel and Estha, born to a wealthy family living in the provice of Kerala, India, find their lives changed after the death of their English cousin visiting for the holidays.

A collection of nine stories by late-twentieth-century Indian-American writer Anita Desai that cover various parts of the globe and concentrate on individuals' struggles with social obligations and personal loyalties.

Sampath Chawla's family thinks that he will never amount to anything, but overnight he becomes a holy man in their village, and his fame turns both his family's and his own life upside down.

The story of a woman of royal birth, Jaya Singh, who must assume the role of Regent Maharani of Sirpur upon the premature death of her husband. She soon finds herself in the center of a political battle in which the future of the kingdom is at stake. Jaya is forced to realize her future as a leader of the Indian people.

Examines the history of India-Pakistan relations from 1947 through the twenty-first century, and describes the important people, institutions, events, and issues that have aided and escalated their opposition to one another.

A reinterpretation of the ancient Indian epic the "Mahabharat, " in which Panchaali, a child destined to change history, marries all five Pandava brothers and builds the magnificent Palace of Illusions, only to have her spiritual failings lead them all to the brink of disaster.