title: Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling
author:  Charles Allen 
description: Charles Allen prefers to focus exclusively on the glory years preceding Kipling's final return to England in 1900, at age 35, and on the vital Indian experience that provided the raw material for so many of his best-loved works, including the Jungle Book short-story collections and the novel Kim...The book offers a vivid and fully rounded picture of the emotional and physical context of Kipling's apprenticeship as a writer....engaging and colorful. (Wall Street Journal) "<br /><br />[A] brilliantly insightful biographical study.... [Allen] is equally sound on all important aspects of Kipling. (Los Angeles Times, Martin Rubin) "
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  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, and made many canonise him as an 
  emblem of the ‘Raj’. 
  This volume highlights the astonishing social and thematic range of his Indian 
  writings as represented in The Jungle Books; Kim; his early verse; his Simla-based 
  tales of Anglo-Indian intrigues and love affairs; his stories of the common Indian 
  people; and his journalism. It brings together different theoretical and contextual 
  readings of Kipling to examine how his experience of India influenced his 
  creative work and conversely how his imperial loyalties conditioned his creative 
  engagement with India. The 18 chapters here engage with the complexities and 
  contradictions in his writings and analyse t