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Criterion collection volume 93
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English
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A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Language
English
Description
Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching...
9) Staying on
Language
English
Description
Retired Indian army colonel Tusker Smalley and his wife, Lucy, made the decision to stay on in India after the British withdrew in 1947. They have since resided peacefully in a bungalow annex of the run-down Smith Hotel. But their peace is about to be disturbed by the hotel owner whose plans for the hotel - and thier bungalow - will permanently change one corner of India that has remained forever England.
10) Cotton Mary
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English
Description
1954, the Malabar Coast. British and Anglo-Indian identities blur when an English-woman with a neglectful husband births a sickly baby. Cotton Mary, a hospital aide and moralizing Anglophile who claims her father was a British officer, takes over the infant's care and, without a word to the mother, takes the baby daily to her sister to nurse. Mary moves into the English household, taking over more and more duties as she plays on the mother's fatigue...
11) Black narcissus
Series
Criterion collection volume 93
Language
English
Description
A group of Anglican nuns runs into trouble when they try to start a hospital and a school in the Himalayas.
13) Flame over India
Language
English
Description
A career soldier uses an antiquated train for an assignment to rescue an American governess and a five-year-old Indian prince on the northwest frontier of India during a rebellion among Moslem tribesmen.
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English
Description
Not long after the battle of Waterloo, dispatchers from India warn that a local Maharaja is threatening British interests there. Wellington sends Sharpe to investigate on what turns out to be his most dangerous mission to date. When an Indian warlord kidnaps a local general's daughter, Sharpe must go deep into enemy territory to save not only the girl but the fate of an empire.
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Hindi
Description
Story is set during the British rule over India. The farmers of India are taxed to the bone by the British. When Jack Russell announces that he will double the Lagaan (tax) from all villagers, they decide to oppose it. Leading the villagers is a young man named Bhuvan, who challenges the British to a game of cricket. The game pits veteran British cricket players against villagers, including Bhuvan, who have never played the game before, and do not...
18) Elephant boy
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Language
English
Description
As Kipling's Toomai of the elephants, 13-year-old Sabu leads a British hunting expedition through the jungle with his pachyderm pal, instantly becoming a legend.
19) Black narcissus
Language
English
Description
"After opening a convent in the Himalayas, five nuns encounter conflict and tension, both with the natives and within their own group, as they attempt to adapt to their remote, exotic surroundings"--Container.
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