Kipling in India : India in Kipling /

This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling's connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling's works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire, a...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Trivedi, Harish.; Montefiore, Jan.
Published: Routledge,
Publisher Address: Abingdon, Oxon :
Publication Dates: 2021.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Summary: This book explores and re-evaluates Kipling's connection with India, its people, culture, languages, and locales through his experiences and his writings. Kipling's works attracted interest among a large section of the British public, stimulating curiosity in their far-off Indian Empire, and made many canoise him as an emblem of the 'Raj'.
Carrier Form: xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780367547288
0367547287
9780367530464
0367530465
Index Number: PR4857
CLC: I561.074
Call Number: I561.074/K57
Contents: Introduction: The Kiplings and India / Harish Trivedi and Janet Montefiore -- 1. The Kiplings in India : Alice Kipling as a Journalist: The Simla Season, 1892 / Barbara Bryant -- Paternal Legacy: Lockwood Kipling and Rudyard Kipling / Harish Trivedi -- Anglo-Indians in Kipling: Kipling in Simla / Jill Didur -- "The City of Dreadful Night": From Thomson's Chronotope to Kipling's Lahore / Evelyne Hanquart-Turner -- Kipling in Allahabad / Neelum Saran Gour -- Mind the gap: Hindi, Urdu and Hindustani words in Kipling's Kim / Angela Eyre -- 2. Rudyard Kipling's Indian Poetry and Fiction : Rudyard Kipling's Indian Love Lyrics / Janet Montefiore -- Hard Knocks and 'The Vision of Hamid Ali': Kipling's Indian Poetry / Harry Ricketts -- On the edge: The conundrum of Kipling's ambivalent fictions / Madhu Grover -- Through the Lens of Childhood: Kipling's Claim to India / Usha Mudiganti -- Going Native, Cautiously: Colonial Ambivalence in Rudyard Kipling's Kim / Satish C. Aikant -- 'I have the Jâtaka; and I have thee': Fables and Kipling's Political Zoology / Kaori Nagai -- Gender and Genre in the Anglo-Indian Romance: Reading Rudyard Kipling's The Naulakha / Anindyo Roy -- Rudyard Kipling and the Ethics of Adventure / Phillip Mallett -- 3. The Jungle Books : Missing (Indian) Mothers and Itineraries: Reading The Jungle Book alongside psychoanalytic perspectives / Amrita Narayanan -- Kipling and Kaa[li]: via Kolkata / Rangana Banerji -- Letting in the Jungle: Hospitality in Kipling / Stephen Hancock -- Reading Kipling in Kipling's Own Country / Vinita Dhondiyal Bhatnagar.