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Contents

Contributors

Foreword and acknowledgements

1 Introduction

2 Rudyard Kipling (1905)

3 Rudyard Kipling (1942)

4 On preparing to read Kipling (1961)

5 Kipling in South Africa

6 The Great War and Rudyard Kipling

7 ‘A Kipling-conditioned world’: Kipling among the war poets

8 Actions and Reactions: Kipling’s Edwardian summer

9 Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and Indian history

10 The young Kipling’s search for God

11 Vagabondage in Rajasthan: Kipling’s North Indian travels

12 Kipling’s ‘vernacular’: what he knew of it – and what he made of it

13 Quotations and boundaries: Stalky & Co.

14 Kipling, ‘beastliness’ and Soldatenliebe

15 ‘A race to leave alone’: Kipling and the Jews

Select bibliography

Index