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| name = Neela: Victory Song<br />
| image = NeelaVictorySong.jpg<br />
| imagewidth = 300px<br />
| caption = The cover of ''Neela: Victory Song''<br />
| published = 2002<br />
| author = [[Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni]]<br />
| illustrator = [[Troy Howell]]<br />
| isbn = 1584855215<br />
| setting = India, 1939<br />
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'''''Neela: Victory Song''''' is a book in the [[Girls of Many Lands]] series focusing on [[Neela Sen]]. It was released in '''2002''' and available with the doll and as a separate purchase. The book was [[Retirement|retired]] with the collection in '''2005'''. Retail cost was ''$7.95.'' <br />
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==Characters==<br />
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:: ''See [[Characters in Neela: Victory Song]]''<br />
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==Chapter by Chapter Summary==<br />
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===Chapter One: Wedding Preparations===<br />
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===Chapter Two: Bandits!===<br />
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===Chapter Three: Good-Byes===<br />
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===Chapter Four: The Secret Guest===<br />
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===Chapter Five: Bad News===<br />
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===Chapter Six: Alone in a City of Strangers===<br />
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===Chapter Seven: A Desperate Search===<br />
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===Chapter Eight: A Daring Plan ===<br />
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===Chapter Nine: The Rescue Mission ===<br />
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===Chapter Ten: Unsuspected Obstacles===<br />
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===[[Looking Back|Then and Now: India]]===<br />
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Discusses a girl's life in India. Topics include:<br />
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* Details about how Indian life had continued even though World War Two had recently erupted in Europe.<br />
* The region of Bengal and traditional housing.<br />
* How Hindu marriages were arranged and what a bride was expected to do after the wedding.<br />
* Why Neela would wear a ''sari'' and a ''bindi'' to the wedding.<br />
* What a wedding 'dowry was made up of and who it was given to.<br />
* How the British arrived in and occupied India and how they lived.<br />
* Freedom fights and protesters.<br />
* What Gandhi believed in and his boycotts.<br />
* How the British handled the protesters.<br />
* India receiving its independence in 1947, and the popular song ''[[Wikipedia:Vande_Mataram|Vande Mataram]].''<br />
* Gandhi's influence on Martin Luther King Jr.<br />
* Life in India today.<br />
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==Extras==<br />
Each Girls of Many Lands book came with a detachable bookmark inside the back cover. This shows a portion of the illustration at the start of the book. Measures 7 3/16" x 2".<br />
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File:NeelaBookmark.jpg|The bookmark for ''Neela: Victory Song.''<br />
File:GirlsOfManyLandsBookmarkBack1.jpg|The bookmark's reverse side.<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
[[File:Victorysongrerelease.jpg|thumb|200px|left|The international cover.]]<br />
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*''Neela: Victory Song'' is the only book in the ''Girls of Many Lands'' series written in third person.<br />
* The book was later released by Penguin Books and offered for sale in India.<br />
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==Items Associated with ''Neela: Victory Song''==<br />
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* [[Neela Sen]] doll<br />
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