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English
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Vikrim Seth's novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find -- through love or through exacting maternal appraisal -- a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boy takes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves....
Author
Publisher
Signet Classics
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Featuring a new introduction and afterword, this critically acclaimed novel tells the story of India and its people through the eyes of one woman and her experiences in one peasant family in a primitive Indian village. Married as a child bride to a tenant farmer she had never seen, she worked side by side in the field with her husband to wrest a living from the land that was ravaged by droughts, monsoons, and insects. With remarkable fortitude and...
Author
Series
Atelier volume 5
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What is the place of quality in contemporary capitalism? How is a product as ordinary as a bag of tea valued for its quality? In her innovative study, Sarah Besky addresses these questions by going inside an Indian auction house where experts taste and value mass-market black tea, one of the world's most recognized commodities. Pairing rich historical data with ethnographic research among agronomists, professional tea tasters and traders, and tea...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
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"As the young daughter of an affluent Parsee family in Lahore, Lenny is keenly observant of the city's astonishing diversity. Crippled by polio but lively in spirit, she spends many of her days in Queen's Park, basking in the hot sun and listening to a colorful cast of characters--Muslims and Hindus, Christians and Sikhs--discuss poetry, love, and politics. But as Lahore descends into sectarian violence due to the partition of India and Pakistan,...
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Series
Quick response research report volume 74
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Research and Applications Information Center, University of Colorado]
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Author
Series
Quick response research report volume 135
Publisher
[Natural Hazards Center]
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Impact of a combination of major natural disasters on poor, rural women in India.
11) The Jungle Book
Publisher
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
"A venerable tiger, old and toothless now, looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild in the Indian jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career as 'Raja the magnificent', he is then sold into films (co-starring with a beefy Tarzan in a leopard skin) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes a dramatic bid for freedom. R. K. Narayan's story combines Hindu mysticism with ripe Malgudi comedy, viewing...
13) Risk assessment and forecasting of Indian summer monsoon for agricultural drought impact planning
Author
Series
Completion report volume no. 215
Publisher
Colorado Water Institute, Colorado State University
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
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