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Kipling Unbound ; This outstanding biography makes sense of the troubled writer who has been caricatured as an imperialist

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From: India Today
Date: 20071217
Author:Gillia Wright And Bunny Suraiya

Kipling Unbound

This outstanding biography makes sense of the troubled writer who has been caricatured as an imperialist

By Gillian Wright

KIPLING SAHIB: INDIA AND THE MAKING OF RUDYARD KIPLING

By CHARLES ALLEN

Little, Brown

Price: Rs 795, Pages: 426

In 1890s Britain, no one doubted the genius of Rudyard Kipling. The author Jerome K. Jerome wrote, "He appears to have dominated the universe to the exclusion of all other beliefs." And Charles Allen, the author of this outstanding biography, sums it up thus, "What made Kipling so hugely popular was his seemingly unerring instinct for saying not ...

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