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Family India Fiction India Social conditions 19th century Fiction India Social conditions 20th century Fiction India Social conditions Fiction Opium trade History Fiction Sailors Fiction Schooners Fiction Social classes India Fiction Voyages and travels Fiction Women India FictionSummary: Set during Gandhi's rise to power, Chuyia, an Indian girl that is married and widowed at eight years old, is sent away to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence. Her feisty presence affects the other residents, forcing each to confront their faith and society's prejudices.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WATMassey, Sujata
Summary: "India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the kingdom of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur's royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic accident. The kingdom is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur's two maharanis, the dowager queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASMukherjee, Oindrila
Summary: "After living in the US for years, Maneka Roy returns home to India to mourn the loss of her mother and finds herself in a new world. The booming city of Hrishipur where her father now lives is nothing like the part of the country where she grew up, and the more she sees of this new, sparkling city, the more she learns that nothing--and no one--here is as it appears. Ultimately, it will take an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MUKSinha, Indra.
Summary: Ever since That Night, the residents of Khaufpur have lived a perilous existence. Their world is poisoned. Nobody has received compensation or help for the chemical leak, least of all Animal, as he is known, whose spine twisted at a young age, leaving him to walk on all fours. Though he inhabits a dark kind of half-life, he knows what love is. He has long harboured feelings for his friend Nisha...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SINGhosh, Amitav.
Summary: Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GHOJha, Raj Kamal
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMAdiga, Aravind.
Summary: In this short story collection set in the Indian city of Kittur sometime between the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984 and that of her son Rajiv in 1991, Adiga creates a cast of characters--from a twelve-year old boy to a Marxist-Maoist Party member--who are immersed in class struggles and their own personal denouements.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ADIUmrigar, Thrity N.
Summary: "The story of two Indian women, one a victim of a brutal crime and the other an Americanized journalist returning to India to cover the story, and the courage they inspire in each other"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UMRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC UMRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC UMRCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Umrigar 2022Viswanathan, Padma
Summary: Spanning the lifetime of one woman (1896-1962), The Toss of a Lemon brings readers intimately into a Brahmin household, into an India in the midst of social and political upheaval. Married at ten, widowed at eighteen, left with two children, Sivakami must wear widow's whites, shave her head, and touch no one from dawn to dusk. She is not allowed to remarry, and in the next sixty years she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VISRao, Shobha
Summary: A searing, electrifying debut novel set in India and America, for readers of Rupi Kaur, about the extraordinary bond between two girls driven apart by circumstances but relentless in their search for one another. Poornima and Savitha have three strikes against them. They are poor. They are driven. And they are girls. When Poornima was just a toddler, she was about to fall into a river. Her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAOGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GHOSummary: The film eloquently contrasts the growing pains of three young women with the immutability of the holy Bengal River in India, around which their daily lives unfold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RIVPinto, Freida
Summary: A young Indian woman falls for a British businessman who has come to India to work for her father's business, but must overcome the pressure of society in order to make their relationship work.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012