![]() ![]() A significant portion of the novel is devoted to such descriptions, which have been lauded both as magical and visionary, and derided as stereotypical and imperialistic. ![]() Kipling’s account of Kim’s travels throughout the subcontinent gave him the opportunity to describe the many peoples and cultures that made the fabric of Indian society at that time. When he meets a wandering Tibetan lama who is in search of a sacred river, Kim becomes his follower and proceeds on a journey covering the whole of India. Although out and out an Irish boy, he grows up as a ‘native’ and acquires the ability to seamlessly blend into the many ethnic and religious groups of the Indian subcontinent. Kim, a boy of Irish descent who is orphaned and grows up independently in the streets of India, is taken care of by a ‘half-caste’ woman, a keeper of an opium den. The book portrays people, culture and varied religions in India. ![]() The story is set in India in the backdrop of the political conflict between Russia and Britain, after the end of second Afghan war which ended in 1881. Kim, a picaresque novel by Rudyard Kipling, was published serially in McClure’s Magazine, before being published in book form in 1901. ![]()
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