For centuries, the animal kingdom has captured the Indian imagination. And the land of the Panchatantra and the Jataka Tales continues to give rise to literary masterpieces. Some of the greatest stories in modern Indian literature have animals as protagonists.

In The Greatest Indian Animal Stories Ever Told, Sumana Roy collects the best fiction written about animals from the past hundred years or so. Beginning with Premchand s classic, A Tale of Two Bullocks , and taking in its sweep some of the greatest pieces of literary fiction to have originated in India, including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, Mahesh by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, The Mark of Vishnu by Khushwant Singh, A Horse and Two Goats by R. K. Narayan, Poonachi by Perumal Murugan, The Crocodile and the Monkey by Vikram Seth, The Reflections of a Hen in Her Last Hour by Paul Zacharia, The Last Tiger by Ruskin Bond and Elephant at Sea by Kanishk Tharoor, the stories in The Greatest Indian Animal Stories Ever Told are guaranteed to dazzle the reader.