Indian Tales

Indian Tales consists of a collection of short stories which captures the varied scents and colors of India. The characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny. The language used here is very Victorian. The stories probably would not have been so funny if not written in such an honorary language, justifying the colonial times the stories are based on. The most light and humorous situations are explained in such a rich language that they seem to be indeed exceptional rather than ordinary. The book beautifully highlights the eccentricities to believe rich, cultured, and polished British class in India and their funny interactions with the native population. The hope, beliefs, simplicity, faith and superstitions of the natives coupled with brutality, cl u e l e s s n e s s, straightjacket, heavy handedness of the British create tongue in cheek humor — guarantee to generate a lot of wonder, sighs, laughs, and giggles on narration back home in England.

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Indian Tales

Indian Tales consists of a collection of short stories which captures the varied scents and colors of India. The characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny. The language used here is very Victorian. The stories probably would not have been so funny if not written in such an honorary language, justifying the colonial times the stories are based on. The most light and humorous situations are explained in such a rich language that they seem to be indeed exceptional rather than ordinary. The book beautifully highlights the eccentricities to believe rich, cultured, and polished British class in India and their funny interactions with the native population. The hope, beliefs, simplicity, faith and superstitions of the natives coupled with brutality, cl u e l e s s n e s s, straightjacket, heavy handedness of the British create tongue in cheek humor — guarantee to generate a lot of wonder, sighs, laughs, and giggles on narration back home in England.

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Indian Tales consists of a collection of short stories which captures the varied scents and colors of India. The characters, situations, portrayals, dialogues are fresh, rich and funny. The language used here is very Victorian. The stories probably would not have been so funny if not written in such an honorary language, justifying the colonial times the stories are based on. The most light and humorous situations are explained in such a rich language that they seem to be indeed exceptional rather than ordinary. The book beautifully highlights the eccentricities to believe rich, cultured, and polished British class in India and their funny interactions with the native population. The hope, beliefs, simplicity, faith and superstitions of the natives coupled with brutality, cl u e l e s s n e s s, straightjacket, heavy handedness of the British create tongue in cheek humor — guarantee to generate a lot of wonder, sighs, laughs, and giggles on narration back home in England.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788121254830
Publisher: Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date: 06/30/2019
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 749
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay, India, which inspired much of his work. He was educated in England but returned to India in 1882. He is regarded as a major innovator in the art of the short story; his children's books are classics of children's literature. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 41, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language writer to receive the prize and its youngest recipient to date.


Rudyard Joseph Kipling was born in the then named Bombay, India on 30th December 1865. Aged six, he was sent to England to be educated, firstly in Southsea, where he was cared for in a foster home, and later at Westward Ho, a United Services College in Devon. A life of misery at the former was described in his story 'Baa Baa Black Sheep', whilst Westward Ho was used as a basis for his questioning the public school ethic in 'Stalky and Co'. Kipling returned to India in 1882 to work as an assistant editor for the Civil and Military Gazette of Lahore. His reputation as a writer was established with stories of English life in India, published there in 1888/9. ‘The Phantom Rickshaw’, ‘Soldiers Three’ and ‘Under the Deodars’ are amongst these early works. Returning to England in 1889, Kipling settled in London and continued to earn a living as a writer. In 1892 he married Caroline Balestier, an American. They travelled extensively in the following four years, including a spell living in America, and it was in this time most of his enduring work was written, not least ‘The Jungle Book’ and ‘The Second Jungle Book’. Kipling once again returned to England in 1896 and continued his writing career, although tragedy hit the family when his eldest daughter, Josephine, died in 1899. Nonetheless, in 1901 he completed ‘Kim’, often considered to be his best work. The following year, having settled in Sussex, he published ‘Just So Stories’, a book he had planned to write for Josephine. Having refused the position of Poet Laureate, which was offered in 1895, he did accept the Nobel Prize for Literature, becoming the first English author to be so honoured. By 1910, however, Kipling’s appeal was waning. His poems and stories were based on values that were perceived as outdated. There was widespread reaction against Victorian imperialism, highlighted by the incompetent management of the Boer War. When World War I came, Kipling had difficulty in adapting to the mood of the public and after his only son, John, was reported missing in action believed killed in 1915, he became very active on the War Graves Commission. After the war he became an increasingly isolated figure, although some of his best writing was to come, with ‘Debits and Credits’ in 1926 and ‘Limits and Renewals’ in 1932. Kipling died in 1936 in London and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Today, however, he is once again avidly read not just for the quality of his writing and storytelling, but through a renewed interest in the behaviour and values he represented.
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