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Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1900
Product Details
ISBN: 9781605980317
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 426
Publish Date: 03/07/09
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Item Number: NORTD598031
Rudyard Kipling will always be in some way associated with India and British colonialism, but the nature of that connection has not yet been sufficiently explored. Enter Charles Allen, another English writer who spent his formative years in India, who has here written what will surely be the definitive biography of the young Kipling. Allen reveals that Kipling's family never ranked among the upper class of the British colonials, though they still kept "Ruddy" surrounded by an ample brigade of Indian servants, who profoundly influenced his upbringing. While some still consider Kipling's literary depictions of India to be condescending and disjunctive, Allen's concise analyses reveal that Kipling's explorations of the racial and class differences that divided colonial India were often fraught with anguish and contrition.
Traces the formative years during which the classic author worked in India on The Civil and Military Gazette and established his literary career, offering insight into his love of the region, his unhappy childhood in England, and the influence of Indian culture of his writings.
Traces the formative years during which the classic author worked in India on The Civil and Military Gazette and established his literary career, offering insight into his love of the region, his unhappy childhood in England, and the influence of Indian culture of his writings.
Review 1:
"Herein lies Kipling's greatness, and it reflects poorly upon our age that the most popular of Kipling's poems today, "If", is also among his least complex. Allen's KIPLING SAHIB is an excellent, immensely readable, strikingly illustrated introduction to this lost complexity."
12/07/2007
Review 2:
"KIPLING SAHIB...offers a vivid and fully rounded picture of the emotional and physical context of Kipling's apprenticeship as a writer. Mr. Allen is particularly good at conjuring the social and cultural milieu of 19th-century Anglo-India."
03/13/2009
Review 3:
"Allen, an English writer who, like Kipling, grew up in India, conveys not only an enthusiasm for his subject, but a feeling for the Indian -- and the Anglo-Indian - culture that animated Kipling's writing."
03/17/2009
Review 4:
"[In] his brilliantly insightful biographical study...., [Charles] Allen makes a convincing case for the crucial role India played in Kipling's life and art."
05/02/2009
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