PP Rudyard Kipling

1. Rudyard Kipling
1865-1936

2.  “If history were taught in the
form of stories, it would never be
forgotten.”
 “God could not be everywhere,
and therefore he made mothers.”

3.  Father : John Lockwood Kipling,
 was an English art teacher, illustrator, and
museum curator, who spent most of his
career in British India.
 Mother: Alice Kipling
 Sister: Alice or “Trix” Kipling

4.  Born in Bombay (Mumbai), India
 December 30, 1865

5. Kipling’s Youth- influenced
writings
 Kipling had a love for Indian language,
country, and culture
 Explored the market places
 Sent to England at 6 yrs old
 Lived with Foster Family until 11 yrs old
 His escape was reading books

6.  Between 1878 and 1882 he attended the
United Services College at Westward Ho in
north Devon. He could not enter the
military because of poor eyesight.
 In1882, at 17 yrs old, Kipling returned to
India. His father secured him a job at a
newspaper. He wrote for the Lahore Civil
and Military Gazette, where he published
his stories and poems.

7. Kipling is best known for :
 The Jungle Book
 “Rikki Tikki Tavi"
 Just So Stories (1902),
 Kim (1901)
Short Stories
 “The Man Who Would Be King" (1888), Plain Tales
From the Hills (1888), Wee Willie Winkie (1888)
Poems:
 “Mandalay" (1890), “Gunga Din" (1890), “The White
Man’s Burdern" (1899) and “If" (1910).

9. Kipling's use of the swastika was
based on the Indian sun symbol
conferring good luck

10. Common Themes in Kipling’s
work:
 British Imperialism/Military
 Religion: Protestant faith
 Victorian Masculinity
domesticity/gender roles,
industrialism(breadwinner),
imperialism (the extension or imposition of power),
manners,
religion,
sporting competition.

11. Philanthropy, duty: defines the
British mission of Imperialism
 Take up the White Man's burden—
Send forth the best ye breed—
Go, bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild—
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
—The White Man's Burden

12.  Connection with Scouting
◦ Baden Powel (lieutenant general in British
Army)
◦ used characters from The Jungle Book and
incorporated them into his cub scout manual

13. Nobel Prize in Literature 1907
 "in consideration of the power of
observation, originality of imagination,
virility of ideas and remarkable talent for
narration which characterize the creations
of this world-famous author".

14.  Kipling died on January 18, 1936 at the
age of 70.
 Kipling was cremated and his ashes were
buried in Poet’s Corner, part of the South
Transept of Westminster Abbey, next to
the graves of Charles Dickens and
Thomas Hardy.

15. Sources:
 http://www.biography.com/people/rudyar
d-kipling-9365581
 http://www.kipling.org.uk/kip_fra.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudyard_Kipl
ing
 http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/li
terature/laureates/1907/