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23 April, 2008

Racism, the Raj and Kipling

Racist Raj?

Henrik Bering on The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj by David Gilmour and Sahib: The British Soldier in India by Richard Holmes - Hoover Institution - Policy Review

Rudyard Kipling unburdened - by Roger Kimball in The New Criterion

It is no use pretending that Kipling’s view of life, as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. — George Orwell, 1942

Kipling Sahib: India And The Making Of Rudyard Kipling - by Charles Allen - review in SMH

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