This curriculum project was developed by an individual who studied in India for 5 weeks in 1993 as part of the Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad program. The activities seek to: (1) offer factual information on India from literature, customs, culture, and socioeconomic and political perspectives; (2) help students be more tolerant about people of another race, of another country, and the conditions under which they live; (3) expand students' spheres of understanding to include a culture other than their own; (4) create a desire in students to keep informed about current events on an international level; (5) answer a need for recreational reading with books that feature factual places as part of the story; (6) help develop aesthetic tastes through writing and illustrating answers to teacher-prepared questions; and (7) furnish more unusual and unique reading material for all middle school reading/language arts and social studies classes to initiate interesting classroom discussions. (EH)