KIPLING'S INDIA
KIPLING'S INDIA: UNCOLLECTED SKETCHES 1884-88 Edited by Thomas Pinney M MACMILLAN
Editorial matter and selection Thomas Pinney 1986 Rudyard Kipling text The National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty 1986 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1986 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. Frist published 1986 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world Typeset by Styleset Limited, Warminster, Wiltshire British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Kipling, Rudyard Kipling's India 1. Kipling, Rudyard-Biography 2. Authors, English-Biography I. Title II. Pinney, Thomas 828'.809 PR4856 ISBN 978-1-349-07712-0 ISBN 978-1-349-07710-6 (ebook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-07710-6
Contents Acknowledgements Maps List of Illustrations Introduction The Viceroy at Patiala, 22 March 1884 A Week in Lahore, 7 May 1884 A Week in Lahore, 21 May 1884 Music for the Middle-Aged, 21 June 1884 The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S., 13 September 1884 The Amritsar Fair [I], 22 October 1884 The Amritsar Fair [II], 23 October 1884 A Week in Lahore, 6 January 1885 A Week in Lahore, 11 February 1885 Typhoid at Home, 14 February 1885 To Meet the Ameer, 31 March 1885 The City of Evil Countenances, 1 Aprill885 To Meet the Ameer, 1 Aprill885 To Meet the Ameer, 2 Aprill885 To Meet the Ameer, 7 Aprill885 To Meet the Ameer, 8 Aprill885 Simla Notes, 24 June 1885 Simla Notes, 22 July 1885 IX X XII 1 26 31 36 42 45 51 58 64 66 69 77 81 85 91 95 97 104 108
v1 Contents Simla Notes, 29 July 1885 111 De Profundis, 7 August 1885 My Christmas Caller, or the Prescription of Sieur Asmodeus, 25 December 1885 An Armoured Train, 5 January 1886 A Week in Lahore, 11 January 1886 A Week in Lahore, 19 January 1886 A Week in Lahore, 3 February 1886 A Popular Picnic, 30 March 1886 Captain Hayes and the Horse, 14 April1886 [Hobson-Jobson], 15 April1886 A Week in Lahore, 19 April1886 The Queen's Highway, 13 July 1886 Out of Society, 14 August 1886 The Epics of India, 24 August 1886 [Tommy Atkins in Burma], 1 January 1887 Of Criticisms, 22 January 1887 Of Criticisms, 29 January 1887 Anglo-Indian Society, 29 January 1887 The Jubilee in Lahore, 18 February 1887 In Reply to the Amateur, 24 February 1887 [The First Empress of the East], 28 February 1887 The Sutlej Bridge, 2 March 1887 The Chak-Nizam Bridge, 18 May 1887 Concerning One Gymkhana, 11 June 188 7 In the Clouds, 13 June 1887 Further Developments, 13 June 1887 118 125 135 140 141 146 148 154 158 160 163 170 175 179 180 182 184 193 202 203 206 215 224 228 232
Contents vn The Private Services Commission, 29 June 1887 235 Our Change. By 'Us', 1 August 1887 243 The House of Shadows, 4 August 188 7 246 A Break on the Line, 6 August 1887 249 An Important Discovery, 17 August 188 7 254 The Longest Way Round, 30 September 1887 257 'The City of the Two Creeds', 1 October 1887 265 To Kabul and Back: Mr O'Meara's Experiences, 27 October 1887 269 The Great Strike (A Tale of 1910), 5 November 1887 275 'The Biggest Liar in Asia' (by One Who Knows Him), 7 November 1887 279 The Old Station (by the Visitor), 8 May 1888 281 'Till the Day Break', 19 May 1888 285 Glossary of Indian and Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases 289 Index 296
Acknowledgements I would like particularly to acknowledge the assistance of the American Philosophical Society for a grant to help pay for the costs of photocopy. My student Vikram Chandra was indispensable in working out the glossary of Indian words, and Joyce Thompson cheerfully undertook a heavy part in preparing the manuscript.
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List of Illustrations Kipling's Punjab Kipling's Lahore In training 55 In a good season 61 Oopla (cow-dung fuel) 75 A Bombay milk woman 77 Young monkeys at play 105 In a serai (rest-house) 143 Bhisti, or water-carrier 237 The ekka 263 The illustrations in the text are by Kipling's father, John Lockwood Kipling, and originally illustrated his Beast and Man in India, Macmillan, 1891. The Author and Publishers wish to acknowledge, with thanks the following plate illustration sources: Plate 1 Rudyard Kipling, c 1882, at the beginning of his Indian career by courtesy of the National Trust Plate 2 The Office of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, from the Kipling Journal, No. 16, December 1930 by courtesy of the Kipling Society Plate 3 Front page of the Civil and Military Gazette, Lahore, Wednesday, 11 February 1885 by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Library, (India Office) X Xl
List of Illustrations Xlll Plate 4 The Badshahi Mosque, Lahore - Ranjit Singh's Marble Pavilion is in the foreground Douglas Dickens, FRPS Plate 5 Plate 6 Peshawur City from the Fort BBC Hulton Picture Library Lahore, from Wazir Khan's Mosque, 1870, by S. Bourne by courtesy of the Trustees of the British Library (India Office) Plate 7 The Church and main bazaar, Simla BBC Hulton Picture Library Plate 8 Rudyard Kipling, 23 February 1899; a sketch by John Lockwood Kipling made at Lahore two weeks before Rudyard Kipling left India for England The University of Sussex Library; by courtesy of the National Trust