Born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of John Lockwood Kipling, a museum director and author and illustrator. This was at the height of the "British Raj", so he was brought up by ...

The Long Recessional: The Imperial Life of Rudyard Kipling David Gilmour John Murray £22.50, pp362 The point about Kipling is that - chronologically, instinctively - he was a journalist first. Kipling ...

Biography: Kipling Sahib: India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling By Charles Allen Little, Brown, 426pp. £20No English writer has been more ardently idolised and vehemently denounced than Rudyard ...

"Kipling is a jingo imperialist," declared Orwell. "He is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting" (yet at the same time he was also "a shameful pleasure"). A sensitive study of Kipling's ...

Every writer has his political aspect, but few merit a political biography. Rudyard Kipling, as David Gilmour demonstrates in The Long Recessional, is one of the ones who do. Not only did Kipling's ...