On the trail of Kipling's Kim Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling
About On the trail of Kipling's Kim
Kipling was a short-story writer, poet and novelist. He was born inBombaywhere his father, John Lockwood Kipling, taught at the JJ School of art. He was shipped to Britain at the age of 5 to be educated, and returned to India as a teenager. His 5 years inLahorewhile Lockwood Kipling was curator of the Lahore museum were formative. He used Lahore as the base to write extensively about India. There is no doubt of his understanding of India or his love for the Indian character, as displayed in one of his most famous poems,Gunga Din. But Kipling was also an unabashed imperialist who believed in the cultural superiority of British institutions. His problematic and controversial poemThe White Man's Burden, encouraging American imperialism in thePhilippines, is of a piece with his view that spre
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