Climbing the mango trees a memoir of a childhood in India
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307517692 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0307517691 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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Physical Description:
electronic resource
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1 online resource (x, 297 p.) : ill. - Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Description based on print version record. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Delhi-Old and New -- Sir Edwin Lutyens and the House That Never Was -- Grandfather, "Babaji" -- Number 7 -- The Lady in White -- The Kite -- Summer Lunch -- The Red Book -- The Story of My Ancestors -- Muslim Influence -- British Rule -- The Record-Keeper -- Mutiny of 1857 -- The Reward -- The Freedom of Kanpur -- My Mother and Father -- A Fairy-Tale Marriage -- A Desire to Excel -- Choosing a School -- A Milky Nation: The Milk Beauty Secret and Milk for Breakfast -- Our Morning Rituals -- The Magic Garden -- Summer Holiday -- Baby Sister -- Starting School and Learning English -- The Toffee Man -- The Quest for Barley Sugar -- My Perfect Sisters -- Fasting for My Father -- Lighting Up for Diwali -- An Opulent Dining Room -- Chewing the Bones -- Bookworms -- A Role Model -- My Caring, Reticent Sister -- The Useful Club -- The Death of a Cousin -- Divided Loyalties -- Preparing for War -- Film Buffs -- The Nazi Connection -- Wolfie and the Gray Horse -- The End of the Kanpur Idyll -- Spellbinding Shibbudada -- Two Tragic Marriages -- Sadness and a Conspiracy of Silence -- My Gang -- Fishing, Shooting, and Swimming -- The Watermelon Fields -- Ear-Piercing Antiseptic -- The Drawing Room -- Winter Evenings: Family, Friends, Lemonade, Nuts, and Pakoris -- Dining at the Long Tables -- Family Picnics in Delhi -- The Art of Getting Thirty People into Two Cars -- Cinema Trips -- Story Time -- Summer Holidays in the Hills -- The Great Exodus -- Grandmother's Magic Potion -- Mountain Picnics -- The Taste of Ecstasy -- A New School -- Classmates in Burqas -- Hindi or Urdu: A Dreadful Choice -- A Lethally Sharp Pencil -- Shibbudada's Favorites -- Teatime Tension -- A Dream House in Daurala -- The Sugarcane Fields -- Sweets Galore in the Sugar Factory -- Visiting the Old City -- The Lane of Fried Breads -- Monsoon Mushrooms -- Learning to Swim and Dance -- A Haven for Musicians -- Temple Dancers and Tap-Dancers -- Dressing as Milkmaids -- An Unhappy Teenager -- The Drama of the Monsoons -- Shibbudada's Quiet Cruelty -- The Spring Festival of Colors -- Chicken Pox -- Soup-Toast and Sewing -- A Fancy-Dress Party -- Learning to Fly -- School Days in Summer -- Mrs. McKelvie -- Discovering Drama -- Fearless Amina -- Art Appreciation -- The Sisters Return -- A Taste of the Future -- Mother's Shawls -- Kamal's Illness -- The Muslim Twins -- Sudha's Vegetarian Delights -- Punjabi Promila -- Our Shared Lunchtime Feasts -- Contacting the Spirit World -- The Icy Hands of Partition -- Mahatma Gandhi -- Spinning for India -- Independence Day and the Bloody Aftermath -- Punjabi Influences -- Food with New Attitude -- Bazaar and Tandoori Foods -- A Taste of Spam -- Sunday Lunchtimes -- The Looming Banyan Tree -- New School Friends and Fresh Tastes -- Learning to Love Hindi -- Two Types of Indians -- Hated Cookery Lessons -- Divine Potatoes -- Exam Season -- Brain Food -- The Honey Seller -- Sweetening the Mouth -- First Jobs and First Loves -- Ballroom Dancing -- Dressing for the Dinner Dance -- Future Planning -- The Radio Station -- The Last Large Picnic -- Wildflower Hall and an Encounter with the Police -- Kamal's Journey -- Shibbudada Interferes Again -- Cookery Exam -- A Joint Family in New York -- Grandfather's Decline -- A Riverside Cremation -- Kamal's Return -- A Gift of Coca-Cola -- Sailing to a New Life -- Mingling the Flavors of the Past and the Future -- Family Recipes 245. |
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Subject: | Jaffrey, Madhur -- 1933- -- Childhood and youth Women cooks -- India -- Biography Cooking, Indic |
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