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    Jungu, The Baiga Princess
    Jungu, The Baiga Princess
    Jungu, The Baiga Princess
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    Jungu, The Baiga Princess

    By Vithal Rajan

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZubaan Publishers Pvt Ltd
    Release dateJan 1, 2014
    ISBN9789383074808
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      Jungu, The Baiga Princess - Vithal Rajan

      Jungu, The Baiga Princess

      When Sunil is sent to stay with his Uncle Vish, he doesn’t know quite what to expect. All he knows is that it’s a long way from the city to the jungles of Madhya Pradesh, and that his Uncle’s job is to protect the tigers that live there.

      Befriended by a little Adivasi girl called Jungu, Sunil soon has to face some tough questions. If the tigers are to survive, then the people must be moved out of the forest. But what will happen to Jungu and all the other Baiga villagers? Don’t they have a right to be there? And meanwhile, there’s a very real, very dangerous gang of poachers to be caught...

      Vithal Rajan’s delightful tale of an unusual friendship between a city boy and an Adivasi girl introduces children to the magical world of the Baigas, teaching them tolerance, respect and the importance of protecting the natural environment.

      Vithal Rajan executive director of the Right Livelihood Award [the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’], Sweden, and was made an Officer Order of Canada for his life-long service to humanity. His other books include Holmes of the Raj, and The Year of High Treason.

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      First published by Young Zubaan, 2014

      Copyright © Vithal Rajan, 2014

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      eBook ISBN: 9789383074808

      Print source ISBN: 9789383074051

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      Zubaan is an independent feminist publishing house based in New Delhi with a strong academic and general list. It was set up as an imprint of India’s first feminist publishing house, Kali for Women, and carries forward Kali’s tradition of publishing world quality books to high editorial and production standards. Zubaan means tongue, voice, language, speech in Hindustani. Zubaan is a non-profit publisher, working in the areas of the humanities, social sciences, as well as in fiction, general non-fiction, and books for children and young adults under its Young Zubaan imprint.

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      Contents

      About the Book

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Note to the Reader

      Dedication

      The Blue Silk Coverlet with Stars

      Going to Baigaland

      The Jungly Girl

      The Bear Attack!

      Jungu meets Uncle Vish

      The Night Raid

      Uncle Vish has a Change of Heart

      An Afterword

      Glossary of Gondi Words and Phrases

      About the Author

      About the Illustrator

      The Blue Silk Coverlet with Stars

      ‘So you are going home to an empty house for Easter break?’

      Suddenly Miss Dhar was beside him on the railway station platform.

      Sunil dragged his feet, looking unhappy. ‘Well, I would have if Uncle Vish was not meeting me at the station. He is taking me to the jungle, somewhere,’ he said, trying to look on the bright side.

      A loud hurrah went up from all the boys who had been waiting impatiently on the platform. The doors of the train to Delhi had been opened. Shouting and laughing, the boys pushed their way into the compartments. Sunil ran into the crowd anxious to get a good seat by a window. In the vestibule of the train, boys were crowding past him, banging into him with their bags and water-bottles, cricket bats and things. Sunil was glad for a moment that he would not have to answer any more of Miss Dhar’s searching questions. Not that he didn’t like her. On the contrary, in fact. It was just that he didn’t want to talk about Dad and Mom pushing off to Ann Arbor to settle his elder sister Puja into her college, leaving him more or less to fend for himself.

      There was a lot of shouting and shoving going on all round him. Well, everyone was excited, but what was there to get worked up about? Just going home, that’s all. Big deal. He found his compartment, shoved his kit under the berth and put his elbows out a little to make some room for himself. He was crushed but he leaned back all the same to take a big breath.

      ‘Hello, Sunil! Hello there!’ Miss Dhar was peering at him through the bars of the window next to him. ‘I see you have found your seat all right.’

      Sunil nodded. He didn’t have anything to say. The boys in the compartment were all waving to Miss Dhar and shouting to her about the projects they were going to do back home. She was very popular, her classes were fun, and she took them adventure walking through the hills on weekends, telling them stories about animals, and history, and oh, so many things. In fact, quite a few boys had a crush on her for she was quite beautiful for an old person though no one could tell how old she was, really. She was speaking to him again, her eyes sparkling through large spectacles.

      ‘Sunil, this Uncle Vish is the Secretary for Environment, right?’

      ‘Yes, and I am to spend my holiday with him in Madhya Pradesh, or maybe Chhattisgarh, I’m not quite sure,’ he said doubtfully.

      ‘You’ll have fun, Sunil!’ said Miss Dhar enthusiastically. ‘I am sure he will take you to those wonderful forests there, with all the animals you can dream of, and tribes who have been there as long, as long

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