Penguin Classics Gift Set

This gift set gathers five short classics of Indian literature and thought under one cover: the Arthashastra, Kautilya's ancient treatise on statecraft and economics; Kabir: The Weaver's Songs, a selection of the 15th-century mystic poet's verse; Tagore's Gitanjali, the Nobel Prize-winning collection of devotional poems; Raja Rao's novella The Cat and Shakespeare; and O.V. Vijayan's novel The Legends of Khasak. Spanning several centuries and languages, the set moves from statecraft and devotional poetry to modern Indian fiction in English and Malayalam translation.