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Article: Kipling's India: uncollected sketches, 1884-1888.
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- National Review
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- September 26, 1986
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Kipling's India: Uncollected Sketches,
THE 56 short articles in this volume, previously unknown and now identified by the editor, were written between 1884 and 1888 for the small group of English exiles in Lahore and the Punjab who read the Civil and Military Gazette. Though local and limited, these "unpretentious productions of a young journalist" offer a vivid evocation of social, religious, military, political, literary, and personal life in northern india in the late nineteenth century. They describe horse trading, training, and racing, balloon flights and railway travel, children, ceremonies, and cemeteries: "In a few more years the remaining slabs will ...