Rudyard Kipling: Activist and Artist (A Chicago Classic) - Tapa dura

In this unique Indian response to Kipling s writings and view of the Anglo-Indian world, a distinguished Indian scholar points up the influences that colored Kipling s imagination and pervaded his mature writings. In addition, he gives a particularly full examination of the intellectual atmosphere of the late-Victorian age and its writers who helped shape Kipling s mode of expression.Of particular value to English-speaking readers is Professor Shahane s discussion of Kipling s idiolect, which is marked by preponderant use of Hindustani words and a peculiar mixture of Hindu syntax and English grammatical structure."

Vasant A. Shahane is Senior Professor of English at Osmania University in Hyderabad, India. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Leeds, England."