Classics Indian Literature

Children everywhere have read and loved Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book—and continue to do so. Here Blackstone offers this collection of moral fables in its entirety. Tales of Mowgli, the boy raised by animals in the exotic jungles of India; Rikki-tikki-tavi, a courageous young mongoose...

This annotated edition of The Last of the Mohicans includes: • A 16,500-word critical study, "The Man Who Invented America" • A reckoning with Mark Twain's famous demolition of Cooper • An honest look at Cooper's Indians — idealization and its costs • A full biography of James Fenimore Cooper • Notes on the complete, unabridged 1826 text 1757. The forests of upstate New York, where two empires are at war and a way of life is ending. As the French and their allies close on Fort William Henry, a frontier scout called Hawkeye and his two Mohican companions — Chingachgook and his ...

A narrative of the unparalleled adventures of Matthew Brayton is compiled for the satisfaction of those who wished to preserve a memorial of his romantic history. Extraordinary as the incidents may appear, there is abundant proof of their entire truth. Living witnesses bear testimony to the circumstances of the mysterious loss of the hero, and his identity is established by incontrovertible proofs. Numerous circumstances also confirm the account given by him of his adventures during the 34 years spent among the Indians.

India is often reputed to be the home of the fairy tale. Here are some of the best from the sub-continent, from the Jatakas to the folktales of Kashmir. You'll hear stories about the evil magician Punchkin, the magic fiddle, and more.

The Namesake follows the Ganguli family through its journey from Calcutta to Cambridge to the Boston suburbs. Ashima and Ashoke Ganguli arrive in America at the end of the 1960s, shortly after their arranged marriage in Calcutta, in order for Ashoke to finish his engineering degree at MIT...

From the award-winning author of Girls Burn Brighter, a couple from India—so different from generations of white colonialists who came before them—move to Montana, only to discover the secrets the land holds in this stunning literary novel. Janavi and Sagar were never meant to end up...

The Classic Oral Tradition Mega Collection gathers ancient epics, mythological works, fairy tales, folk traditions, and Native American stories from across cultures.

The year is 1870, and Fool's Crow, so called after he killed the chief of the Crows during a raid, has a vision at the annual Sun Dance ceremony. The young warrior sees the end of the Indian way of life and the choice that must be made: resistance or humiliating accommodation. "A major...

Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits evokes the grit and enduring grace that is modern Morocco. As four Moroccans illegally cross the Strait of Gibraltar in an inflatable boat headed for Spain, author Laila Lalami asks, What has driven them to risk their lives? And will the rewards prove to be...

A vivid portrait of a Somali British family whose bonds are tested when past violence and betrayals return to haunt them, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Fortune Men “Nadifa Mohamed is a revelation—she writes with the fierce compassionate lightning of a truth-teller, lays...

Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries. Now Desai takes us to the northeastern Himalayas where a rising insurgency challenges the old way of life. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga...

On Mahashivratri, when the moon casts a crimson glow and bats scurry across the night sky, the Vetaals appear from the shadows to take revenge against an ancient custom led by a sadistic demigod. The only one who stands between them and the future of humankind is Vikramaditya, the king of Avantika. But to battle against these dark forces, he needs an ally. An ally who whispers with blood between his teeth, the one who speaks in riddles—the original Veetal. Will Vikramaditya be able to convince the Veetal to help him defeat this unbeatable enemy?

In this tale of high-spirited and terrifying adventure, set against the background of the West that Larry McMurtry has made his own, By Sorrow’s River is an epic in its own right with the return of the formidable, young Tasmin Berrybender. At the heart of this third volume of his Western saga...

The Jungle Book does not end in the jungle. It ends in the mud of an artillery park the night before a military review, where a young mule, frightened by shapes he cannot name, asks the only question a children's book about animals rarely bothers to ask: why do we have to fight at all? Three species answer him in the same words. He asks who gives the orders, and the answer runs link by link — driver to sergeant, sergeant to officer, officer up through the whole structure of the army and out the top of it, to the Viceroy and the throne behind him. The one animal on the field who is afraid ...

This annotated edition includes: A new, original English translation of Siddhartha (1922), made directly from Hesse's German — the first new rendering in decades to enter Kindle Unlimited A critical study of some 17,000 words on the sermon that fails and the kiss that succeeds A Note on the Text and the Translation, with a full glossary of the terminology decisions made and why A live table of contents The most famous line in the book says wisdom cannot be handed from one person to another. Hesse wrote the book anyway, and had the honesty to let it half-fail. For seventy years, English ...

Charles Alexander Eastman (1858-1939) was a Santee Dakota physician, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. Indian Boyhood (1902) is a recollection of Eastman's earliest childhood memories up to the age of 15. He describes the traditional ways in which the tribe governed itself - a police force, hunting and warrior scouts, and the tribal council. The book includes family and tribal legends of adventure, bravery, and nature that he heard in the lodge of the tribe historian.

Journey through time with ten of the most compelling tales from the Mahabharata and Srimad Bhagavatam, the immortal Indian epics that has shaped minds and hearts for millennia. This carefully curated collection brings to life legendary characters whose choices, dilemmas, and triumphs continue to resonate in our modern world. Meet the unshakeable Bhishma, whose vow of lifelong celibacy and service shaped the destiny of kingdoms. Witness the tragic hero Karnan’s struggle with identity and loyalty, a story that speaks powerfully to contemporary questions of privilege and prejudice. ...

When ideas become weapons, who survives the lesson? In the shadowed streets of Pataliputra, a city built on order begins to rot from within. Symbols drawn in funeral ash appear overnight. Bodies fall — not at random, but with purpose. Each death desecrates an ideal that once held the empire together. At the centre stands Chanakya — architect of power, master of strategy, and the mind that shaped kings.

In the midst of wildfires of Uttarakhand, a firefighter happened to see a flying man, with a symbol Eight on his chest. Is he a hero or a demon? What is his past? Who is he?

The Pañcatantra Five Principles · The Origin of World Narrative A foundational work that shaped global storytelling The Pañcatantra is among the oldest surviving works of narrative literature, and one of the most influential. Its stories circulated across Asia, the Middle East, and Europe, gradually shaping how people told and understood stories. What matters here is not any single tale, but the way the work is built. Over centuries of translation and retelling, its patterns of storytelling—how events unfold, how irony works, how moral choices are framed—spread far beyond its ...