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Kipling Sahib

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Description for Kipling Sahib Paperback. A long overdue reassessment of Kipling in India by a leading historian of the subcontinent, author of PLAIN TALES FROM THE RAJ and SOLDIER SAHIBS Num Pages: 448 pages, Section: 16, Integrated: 16, b/w pix. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 328.

Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay in 1865 and spent his early years there, before being sent, aged six, to England, a desperately unhappy experience. Charles Allen's great-grandfather brought the sixteen-year-old Kipling out to Lahore to work on The Civil and Military Gazette with the words 'Kipling will do', and thus set young Rudyard on his literary course. And so it was that at the start of the cold weather of 1882 he stepped ashore at Bombay on 18 October 1882 - 'a prince entering his kingdom'. He stayed for seven years during which he wrote the work that established ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349116853
SKU
V9780349116853
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About Paperback
Charles Allen is the author of a number of bestselling books about Indian and the colonial experience elsewhere. A traveller, historian and master storyteller he is one of the great chroniclers of India.

Reviews for Kipling Sahib
Those who relish Allen's India books will not be disappointed . . . Rich in instruction for the current administration in, say, Basra - and better still, it's vintage Charles Allen
John Kaey
LITERARY REVIEW
No biographer has done him better justice
Clarence Valley Examiner
The strength of Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of ... Read more

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