Article: Kipling and India.(Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling)(Book review)

Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling. Charles Allen. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. xix + 426 pages, ISBN 978-0-316-72655-9.

The author's publishers do not brag when they say of Charles Allen that 'few are as well qualified to write about Kipling in India'. Allen is virtually Kipling's Doppelganger. He, too, was born under the Raj and as a child he developed the same intense affection for India that enriches so much of Kipling's work. Links between the Kipling and Allen families date back to the beginnings of the Raj. It was Charles Allen's great-grandfather who in 1882 gave the sixteen-year-old Rudyard his first job when he appointed ...






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