Books for children with India as background

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Dd11 has recently read Jamila Gavin(Surya triology,The blood stone),I have moonstone by Wilkie Collins's Moonstone. Any other suggestions?

I think it is a bit old for her,may be in few years time

The Conch Bearer by Chitra Banarjee Divakaruni is mystical and magical. Age range around 9-12years I should think.

Books by Narinder Dhami.

There is also the Bollywood Babes trilogy. Can't remember the author, and may be senior school rather than junior. It is a long time sice I read them!

Rudyard Kipling?

Agree Kipling. The jungle books cover much more than just the mowgli stories and are pretty sympathetic. Kim - as long as you explain a bit about the background, but probably a bit older.

Depends on how mature a reader she is for Rumer Godden: the peacock spring maybe a bit later but black narcissus? Is it The River that Jean renoir made a film of - the sad one ? in due course.

and it only begins in India, but the secret garden - the description of making gardens in the sand is so convincing and the contrasts so great.

The first part of The Secret Garden is set in India

God of Small Things? How about some Tagore short stories,www.amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Illustrated-Childrens-Tagore-Collection/dp/0195684176/ref=sr_1_10?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1329486766&sr=1-10 here they are very simply written and I remember reading them at 8 or 9 even though I'm sure I didn't understand them properly!
Indian myths and legends? RK Narayan's versions for Penguin Classics very readable. Also Sarwat Chaddha has a new series coming out, the Ash Mistry Chronicles I think?

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie is a beautiful book for all ages. I think I was about 11 when I read and loved The Far Pavilions. I've not read it since so it might be both unsuitable and terrible.

Thanks for all the suggestions.