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	Delhi, Jaipur Agra Map • Globetrotter • Covering Northern India and the neighboring Himalayas, this double-sided map also features detailed city plans and site diagrams, a concise index, color photographs and travel information. (IDA566, $8.95)
	Kim • Rudyard Kipling • LITERATURE • For the sheer pleasure of its prose, insight into the British in India and its extraordinary sense of place, you can't do better than Kipling's classic novel about a boy who travels the Grand Trunk Road with the Dalai Lama. (IDA65, $7.00)
	Lonely Planet Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra • Abigail Hole • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide to Rajasthan, featuring 36 maps, a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. (IDA238, $24.99)
	A Passage to India • E.M. Forster • LITERATURE • Forster's enduring masterpiece of the clash between Indian and British culture gives gripping insights into British imperial attitudes and Indian colonial responses. (IDA26, $14.00)
	Raj, The Making and Unmaking of British India • Lawrence James • HISTORY • An anecdotal, engrossing mostly military history of the East India Company. (IDA87, $24.99)
	A Suitable Boy • Vikram Seth • LITERATURE • A modern classic set in Calcutta, Delhi and other northern India cities after Independence, bursting with history, character, and politics. In this outstanding epic novel, Seth displays his cultural sensitivity, historical insight, and poetic creativity. (IDA27, $21.99)
	Taj Mahal, Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire • Diana Preston • Michael Preston • HISTORY • A vivid narrative history of the creation of the Taj Mahal, a memorial created by Moghul emperor Shah Jahan for his beloved wife. (IDA340, $16.95)
	City of Djinns, A Year in Delhi • William Dalrymple • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • FAVORITE • Dalrymple infectiously interweaves his own experiences over a year in Delhi with the art, architecture, history and literature of the city. (IDA06, $16.00)
	May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons, A Journey Among the Women of India • Elisabeth Bumiller • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A wonderfully written, fascinating portrayal of Indian women from Bollywood stars to Indira Gandhi to prostitutes. It's an insightful portrait of the country as seen through the eyes of its women. (IDA37, $14.95)
	In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India • Edward Luce • HISTORY • Luce tackles the challenges and reality of the world's largest democracy with insight and balance in this portrait of a nation in transition. (IDA349, $16.00)
	The Idea of India • Sunil Khilnani • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • Khilnani confronts the complexities, paradoxes and challenges of the nation in this brief, elegant survey of India since independence. (IDA160, $17.00)
	Taj Mahal • Giles Tillotson • Mary Beard • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An enlightening pocket guide to the myth, meaning and legends of the celebrated tomb, "the queen of architecture." (IDA528, $19.95)
	An Autobiography, Or the Story of My Experiments with Truth • Mohandas K. Gandhi • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • There is no substitute for reading Gandhi in his own simple, direct prose. A highly recommended glimpse into the personality and life of this remarkable figure. (IDA163, $10.95)
	Midnight's Children • Salman Rushdie • LITERATURE • FAVORITE • A madcap, comic take on the birth of modern India in all its splendid and unexpected manifestations, Rushdie's greatest novel was recently crowned "Best of the Booker." The title refers to those, like the narrator, born at the stroke of midnight August 15, 1947. (IDA12, $16.00)
	The White Tiger, A Novel • Aravind Adiga • LITERATURE • Mordant, funny, angry, horrifying, this Booker Prize-winning tale of a village pauper turned success (and murderer) skewers the ambition, inequity and corruption of 21st-century India. Adiga's India is a place where religion doesn't create morality and money doesn't solve every problem, though craven ambition can get you far indeed. (IDA542, $15.00)
	Birds of India • Richard Grimmett • Carol Inskipp • Tim Inskipp • FIELD GUIDE • A compact, authoritative guide to 1,300 birds of the subcontinent, from Nepal and Bhutan to Sri Lanka, with stunning color plates, range maps and descriptive information on facing pages. (FG43, $35.00)

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