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Balanced view of Rudyard Kipling, imperial apostle but no monster.(BOOKS)

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From: The Washington Times
Date: 20020519
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Byline: Sudip Bose, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Whatever one thinks of Rudyard Kipling's politics - and even those who seek to rehabilitate his reputation as a jingoist and a racist can find much that is unpleasant about him - it must be admitted that he had few, if any, superiors as a writer of English short stories. In addition, no Englishman ever assembled as impressive a body of work about India.

Born in Bombay in 1865, Kipling spent his early years among his family's Indian servants and learned to speak Hindi as his first language. Later, he wandered the streets ...

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