Tales from India

First published in 1932, ‘Tales from India’ was written by Rudyard Kipling, an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work. In these stories, Kipling sets the stage for encounters between the East and the West and takes on the thorny issues of empire, race, race, miscegenation, and the practice of going native, and uses them as literary tropes to examine human culture, religion, and society. Kipling offers vivid insights into Anglo-India at work and play, and into the character of the Indians themselves. These tales with their conciseness and engagement of effect are milestones in the history of the short story as an art form. These stories mirror the more unanticipated aspects of Kipling's character and the different influences of the contrasting countries, India, America, and England, in which he lived. His advanced portrayal of women, his interest in supernatural and religious experiences, his understanding of the processes of mental and spiritual breakdown, and the curative powers of art, are all revealed in this intriguing perspective of a great writer.

• Short Stories
• Indian Writing