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Climbing the mango trees : a memoir of a childhood in India /
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- ISBN: 140004295X
- ISBN: 9781400042951
- Physical Description: x, 297 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf, 2006.
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Climbing the Mango Trees : A Memoir of a Childhood in India
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| My Family Tree | p. xi | |
| Prologue | p. 3 | |
| Sweet as Honey? | ||
| Winter in Delhi: The Season of Weddings | ||
| The Caterer as Magician | ||
| Lessons in Taste | ||
| 1 | p. 7 | |
| Delhi-Old and New | ||
| Sir Edwin Lutyens and the House That Never Was | ||
| Grandfather, "Babaji" | ||
| Number 7 | ||
| The Lady in White | ||
| The Kite | ||
| 2 | p. 17 | |
| Summer Lunch | ||
| The Red Book | ||
| The Story of My Ancestors | ||
| Muslim Influence | ||
| 3 | p. 17 | |
| British Rule | ||
| The Record-Keeper | ||
| Mutiny of 1857 | ||
| The Reward | ||
| 4 | p. 31 | |
| The Freedom of Kanpur | ||
| My Mother and Father | ||
| A Fairy-Tale Marriage | ||
| A Desire to Excel | ||
| 5 | p. 40 | |
| Choosing a School | ||
| A Milky Nation: The Milk Beauty Secret and Milk for Breakfast | ||
| Our Morning Rituals | ||
| The Magic Garden | ||
| 6 | p. 47 | |
| Summer Holiday | ||
| Baby Sister | ||
| Starting School and Learning English | ||
| The Toffee Man | ||
| The Quest for Barley Sugar | ||
| My Perfect Sisters | ||
| 7 | p. 55 | |
| Fasting for My Father | ||
| Lighting Up for Diwali | ||
| An Opulent Dining Room | ||
| Chewing the Bones | ||
| Bookworms | ||
| A Role Model | ||
| 8 | p. 63 | |
| My Caring, Reticent Sister | ||
| The Useful Club | ||
| The Death of a Cousin | ||
| 9 | p. 67 | |
| Divided Loyalties | ||
| Preparing for War | ||
| Film Buffs | ||
| The Nazi Connection | ||
| Wolfie and the Gray Horse | ||
| The End of the Kanpur Idyll | ||
| 10 | p. 72 | |
| Spellbinding Shibbudada | ||
| Two Tragic Marriages | ||
| Sadness and a Conspiracy of Silence | ||
| 11 | p. 79 | |
| My Gang | ||
| Fishing, Shooting, and Swimming | ||
| The Watermelon Fields | ||
| Ear-Piercing Antiseptic | ||
| 12 | p. 88 | |
| The Drawing Room | ||
| Winter Evenings: Family, Friends, Lemonade, Nuts, and Pakoris | ||
| Dining at the Long Tables | ||
| 13 | p. 97 | |
| Family Picnics in Delhi | ||
| The Art of Getting Thirty People into Two Cars | ||
| Cinema Trips | ||
| Story Time | ||
| 14 | p. 104 | |
| Summer Holidays in the Hills | ||
| The Great Exodus | ||
| Grandmother's Magic Potion | ||
| Mountain Picnics | ||
| The Taste of Ecstasy | ||
| 15 | p. 113 | |
| A New School | ||
| Classmates in Burqas | ||
| Hindi or Urdu: A Dreadful Choice | ||
| A Lethally Sharp Pencil | ||
| 16 | p. 119 | |
| Shibbudada's Favorites | ||
| Teatime Tension | ||
| A Dream House in Daurala | ||
| The Sugarcane Fields | ||
| Sweets Galore in the Sugar Factory | ||
| 17 | p. 127 | |
| Visiting the Old City | ||
| The Lane of Fried Breads | ||
| Monsoon Mushrooms | ||
| 18 | p. 136 | |
| 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 | ||
| 19 | p. 150 | |
| Chicken Pox | ||
| Soup-Toast and Sewing | ||
| A Fancy-Dress Party | ||
| 20 | p. 154 | |
| Learning to Fly | ||
| School Days in Summer | ||
| Mrs. McKelvie | ||
| Discovering Drama | ||
| Fearless Amina | ||
| Art Appreciation | ||
| 21 | p. 164 | |
| The Sisters Return | ||
| A Taste of the Future | ||
| Mother's Shawls | ||
| Kamal's Illness | ||
| 22 | p. 171 | |
| 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 | ||
| 23 | p. 187 | |
| Punjabi Influences | ||
| Food with New Attitude | ||
| Bazaar and Tandoori Foods | ||
| A Taste of Spam | ||
| Sunday Lunchtimes | ||
| 24 | p. 197 | |
| The Looming Banyan Tree | ||
| New School Friends and Fresh Tastes | ||
| Learning to Love Hindi | ||
| Two Types of Indians | ||
| Hated Cookery Lessons | ||
| Divine Potatoes | ||
| 25 | p. 205 | |
| Exam Season | ||
| Brain Food | ||
| The Honey Seller | ||
| Sweetening the Mouth | ||
| 26 | p. 211 | |
| First Jobs and First Loves | ||
| Ballroom Dancing | ||
| Dressing for the Dinner Dance | ||
| 27 | p. 218 | |
| Future Planning | ||
| The Radio Station | ||
| The Last Large Picnic | ||
| Wildflower Hall and an Encounter with the Police | ||
| 28 | p. 226 | |
| Kamal's Journey | ||
| Shibbudada Interferes Again | ||
| Cookery Exam | ||
| 29 | p. 230 | |
| A Joint Family in New York | ||
| Grandfather's Decline | ||
| A Riverside Cremation | ||
| Epilogue | p. 237 | |
| Kamal's Return | ||
| A Gift of Coca-Cola | ||
| Sailing to a New Life | ||
| Mingling the Flavors of the Past and the Future | ||
| Family Recipes | p. 245 | |
| Acknowledgements | p. 297 |
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