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Rao, K. Bhaskara. (Rudyard Kipling.) RUDYARD KIPLING'S INDIA.
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1967, first edition.
190 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "K. Bhaskara Rao demonstrates that 'to explain Kipling....is to explain the earlier phase of British impeialism in India', in which 'the Indian became a stranger in his own land'. For Kiplin g politics and literature were interactive and he made a religion out of the imperial theme. Since Kipling had been born in India, he was considered to have a special insight into the Anglo-Saxon problems of governing this sub-continent. His w r i t i ngs in the 'Civil and Military Gazette' created the ordinary Englishman's picture of Indian life. Rao thinks Kipling might have used his influence with his responsive audience to promote good feeling between the races. Instead, as the h u ma ni st ic s cholar Gilbert Murray said of his old friend, Kipling had 'used his great powers to stir up in the minds of hundreds of Englishmen a blind and savage contempt for the Bengali', to which the Bengali reciprocated in kind. Although la te r E ngl ish wr ite rs of Indian life, such as E.M. Forster and John Masters, helped promote anti-imperialism by dispelling the notion that the Indians were an inferior race, Kipling's early work was a historic force in alienating the two races. Ev en t houg h Ki plin g's later work shows great understanding of India, no study of his life and writing reflects the profound influence his early work exerted on British imperialism...." Slight cigarette odor, tiny scuff on top of textblock, li ght edge wear, very ligh t wr inkling at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, small scuff and rub marks on panels and down spine, slight fading to spine color, several small closed tears archivally taped, a few tiny edg e te ars, very l ight r ubbing , min or soiling. Very Good/Good+
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17.50 USD
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