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Kipling Sahib

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by Charles Allen


  Baldwin, Stanley, 48, 64, 72, 93

  Balestier, Beatty, 338, 339

  Balestier, Carrie see Kipling, Carrie

  Balestier, Josephine, 316

  Balestier, Wolcott, 158, 313–15, 316, 318, 320, 344

  ‘Ballad of East and West, The’, 208, 300

  ‘Ballad of the King’s Jest, The’, 300

  ‘Ballad of the King’s Mercy, The’, 300

  Bambridge, Elsie (née Kipling), 9–10, 338

  Bancroft, Nathaniel: From Recruit to Staff Sergeant, 221

  ‘Bang upon the Bass Drum’, 218

  Barrack-Room Ballads, 219, 298, 304, 306–8, 310, 322

  Barrie, J. M., 312

  Bedford, Duke of, 227

  Beg, Mirza Moorad Alee, 172–3; Lalun the Beragun, 172, 210

  ‘Beleaguered City, A’, 152

  Bell, Moberly, 341, 342

  Belvidere, 252, 272, 272–3

  Benares, 254, 255–6, 333

  Bengal, 256

  Bengal Horse Artillery, 221

  Benmore (Simla), 139, 265

  Beresford, George, 6, 96, 97, 99, 100, 104–6, 117, 348

  Beresford, Lord William, 228–9, 242

  Bermuda, 335

  Besant, Sir Walter, 297, 301, 302, 341, 342; All in a Garden Fair, 216, 273

  ‘Beyond the Pale’, 236–7

  Bikaner House (Lahore), 107–8, 121, 122

  Birkenhead, Lord, 10, 67

  ‘Black Jack’, 269

  Black Mountain Campaign (1888), 275

  Blackwood, Lady Helen, 226

  Blavatsky, Madame, 143–4, 173, 202

  Boer War, 351–2, 354

  Bomanjee, Pestonjee, 38

  Bombay, 23–9; changes in on Kipling’s return, 119–20; construction of public buildings, 26–7, 28, 29; cosmopolitanism of, 23–4; cotton trade, 26; decline and reversal of, 25–6; description, 11–13; Europeans in, 120; growth in wealth, 278; Hindu temples, 45; history, 23–6; landing of British troops (1871), 58–9; metamorphosis of, 22; population growth, 25, 26, 27; relaxed trading rules, 24; stock market crash (1865), 29–30

  Bombay Fort, 25, 26

  Bombay Gazette, 27, 75, 203

  Bombay Gymkhana, 120

  Bombay Philharmonic Society, 55

  Bombay University, 39

  Brackenbury, General Sir Henry, 354

  ‘Bride’s Progress, The’, 255–6

  ‘Bridge-Builders, The’, xviii, 333–5

  ‘Brotherhood, The’, 17

  Brown, Ford Madox, 17

  Browning, Robert, 85, 98, 177

  Buck, Sir Edward, 143, 188

  Buckingham, Lord, 87

  Buddha, 357

  Buddhism, 97, 358–9

  Burma, 203, 217, 293

  Burne-Jones, Edward ‘Ned’, 7, 17, 41, 64, 70, 94, 342, 344

  Burne-Jones, Georgie (née Macdonald), 7, 17, 41, 64, 70, 72, 91, 111

  Burne-Jones, Margaret, 204; Kipling’s letters to, 171, 195, 198, 215, 216, 222, 240, 258–9, 260–1, 265, 269, 287, 288, 290, 291, 296–7, 301–2, 303, 304, 305

  Burne-Jones, Phil, 340, 341

  Burton, Isabella, 231–2, 235, 243, 251–2, 259

  Bushwood Boy, The, 338

  Byculla Ball, 55

  Caine, William Sproston, 226

  Calcutta, 23, 256–7

  Calcutta Review, 53, 179

  Calcutta University, 144

  Captains Courageous: a Story of the Grand Banks, 338–9

  Carmody, Lance-Sergeant William, 153

  Carrington, Charles, 9, 10; Rudyard Kipling: His Life and Work, x

  Carroll, Lewis: ‘The Walrus and the Carpenter’, 151

  Cassell’s Magazine, 352

  caste system, 22

  Century Magazine, 2, 318

  Chalmers, J. M., 161

  Chameleon, The, 72–5, 76

  Charles II, King, 23

  Chesney, George, 266, 272, 287, 319, 320

  child-rearing: in British India, 32–4, 48

  Chiragan Fair, 210

  Chittor, 247, 248–9

  cholera, 160, 168

  ‘Christmas in India’, 234

  City of Dreadful Night and Other Places, 257

  ‘City of Dreadful Night, The’, 195–8, 256

  ‘City of the Heart, The’, 168

  Civil and Military Gazette see CMG Clandeboye, Viscount (Archibald Blackwood), 227, 238–9

  ‘Cleared’, 306

  Clifford, Lucy, 302

  Clive of India, 279

  CMG (Civil and Military Gazette), xi, 150, 217, 222, 310, 319; and Allen, 113, 114–16, 233; criticism of Kipling by Wheeler, 205–6; and Day murder trial, 152–3; editors, 116–17; history, 114–15; and Ilbert Bill, 130, 131; introduction of the ‘turnover’, 233; Kipling as assistant editor, x, 117, 123–6, 180; Kipling’s political squibs, 130, 132; personal columns, 163; publishing of Kipling’s verses and stories, 152, 153, 167, 173, 204, 222–3, 258, 259; Quartette supplement, 198; ‘Simla Notes’ for, 187; under Robinson, 232–3

  Coleridge, Samuel: ‘Ancient Mariner’, 107

  ‘Collar-Wallah and the Poison-Stick’, 187, 323

  Colvin, Sir Auckland, 204, 246

  Colvin, Sir Sidney, 341

  ‘Comet of the Season, The’, 299

  Common Soldiers, 220

  Conland, James, 338

  Connaught, Duke and Duchess of, 176, 184

  Cornhill Magazine, 303

  Corps of Guides Cavalry and Infantry, 208

  Cory, Colonel Arthur, 115

  Cosmopolitan, 339

  cotton trade: Bombay, 26

  Countess of Dufferin’s Fund for Supplying Medical Aid to the Women of India, 239, 240

  ‘Courting of Dinah Shadd, The’, 309

  Crawford, Arthur, 39

  Crawford, Francis Marion, 146

  Crawford Market (Bombay), 39, 45

  Crofts, W. C., 97

  Cuba, 343

  Cunningham, Judge: Chronicles of Dustypore, 231

  Curzon, Lord, 4

  Daily Mail, 3

  Dalhousie, Governor-General, 78, 160, 166

  Dane, Louis, 195

  ‘Danny Deever’, 154–5, 184, 306, 307, 309

  Dare, William, 290

  Darwin, Charles, 277

  Das, Sarat Chandra, 358

  Dass, Ram, 198

  Dassera Festival, 149

  ‘Daughter of the Regiment, A’, 223

  Davids, Rhys, 358; Buddhist Birth Stories, 324

  Davies, Colonel Newnham, 146

  Day, William, 152

  ‘Day’s Work, The’, 337

  Dehra Dun, 358

  Delhi, 90; siege of (1857), 219

  Departmental Ditties, 75, 151, 203, 224–6, 234, 259, 272, 273, 303, 306, 307

  Dhammapada scriptures, 358

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 86, 87, 89, 109

  Dodge, Mary Mapes, 102, 103, 323, 336

  Doubleday, Frank, 6

  ‘Dray Wara Yow Dee’, 257–8

  ‘Drums of the Fore and Aft, The’, 274–7

  Dufferin, Lady, 79, 184–5, 187–8, 227, 239, 244, 245, 257

  Dufferin, Lord, 175–6, 185, 192, 224–5, 226, 239, 240, 243–4, 256–7, 268–9, 271, 283, 313

  Dunsterville, Lionel, 8, 95, 96, 105, 182, 204, 218, 319, 339

  Durrani, Ahmad Shah, 82

  Dury, Lieutenant R. A. T., 203, 217

  ‘Dusky Crew, The’, 102–3

  East India Company, 23, 24, 25, 84, 94, 245, 280

  East Lancashire Regiment, 156

  Echoes, 161, 166, 166–7, 192

  Elphinstone College (Bombay), 57

  ‘Enlightenment of Pagett, MP’, 284–5

  ‘English Flag, The’, 3, 317–18

  Englishman, 129–30, 203

  Erskine, Claude, 19

  Esterházy, Prince Louis, 229

  Exposition Universelle (Paris), 99

  ‘False Dawn’, 164

  Fenwick, Major George, 114, 115

  Ferozeshah, Battle of, 22
1

  First Punjab Volunteers Rifle Corps, 149, 152

  Fitzgerald, ‘Toby’, 218

  Flaxman, George, 153–4

  Fleming, Captain Jack, 243, 267–8, 290, 310, 345, 346, 358

  Flora Fountain (Bombay), 12

  ‘Fond Memory’, 101

  ‘Ford o’Kabul’, 306

  Forjett, Charles, 24

  Forster, E.M., 52

  Fort Lahore, 78, 222

  Fortnightly Review, 306

  Freemasonry, 213–14

  Freemasons: Kipling’s encounter with, 250–1, 262–3, 277

  Frere, Sir Henry Bartle, 12, 20, 26, 27, 40, 50

  Friend of the Free State, 352

  ‘From the Masjid-Al-Aqsa of Sayyid Ahmed (Wahabi)’, 212

  Fulford, William, 17

  Fussboll, Victor: Folktales of India, 324

  ‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’, 306, 307

  Gaiety Theatre (Simla), 243

  ‘Garm – a Hostage’, 135

  Garrard, Flo, 106, 111, 117, 155, 260, 310, 311, 312

  ‘Gate of the Hundred Sorrows, The’, 173, 179, 200, 213

  Gatti’s Musical Hall (London), 297

  ‘Gemini’, 258

  ‘Gentlemen-Rankers’, 306

  Gladstone, William, 30, 109

  ‘Glory of the Garden, The’, 364

  Goad, Horace, 144–5, 231

  Godavari River, 60

  Gordon, ‘Nelly’, 218

  Gosse, Edmund, 314, 318, 320, 321

  Goulding, Colonel H. R., 152, 215

  Government College (Lahore), 114

  Grange, The, 41

  ‘Grave of the Hundred Dead, The’, 217

  ‘Great Census, The’, 258

  Great Exhibition, 16

  Great Indian Peninsula Railway, 26

  Griffin, Sir Lepel, 251

  Griffiths, John, 22, 120

  Grombtcheski, Colonel, 354

  Gugger, River, xvii

  ‘Gunga Din’, 219, 306, 307

  Guthrie, Thomas Anstey, 301

  Gwynne, H. A., 8

  Haggard, Henry Rider, 301; Nada the Lily, 325

  Haileybury College, 94

  Hamilton, Captain Ian, 227, 228, 229, 230, 301

  Hamilton, Vereker, 227, 228, 301

  Hardy, Thomas, 301

  Harlan, Josiah, 262

  Harper, Henry, 295

  Harper and Sons, 314

  Harris, Joel Chandler, 98

  Harte, Bret, 98, 250

  Havelock, General, 245

  Hayes, ‘Banjo’, 193

  ‘Head of the District, The’, 284, 285–6

  Hearsey, Captain Andrew, 287

  Hearsey, General Sir John, 287

  Helen, Countess of Gifford, 271

  Henley, W. E., 298, 306, 308, 318

  Hensman, Howard, 141, 143, 266, 272, 276

  Hill, Alex, 251–2, 262, 272, 294, 312

  Hill, Edmonia, 262, 272, 274; background, 251–2; ill-health, 287–8; Kipling’s letters to, 9, 257–8, 260–1, 265, 269, 287, 288, 290, 291, 296–7, 301–2, 303, 304, 305, 348; relationship with Kipling, 252–3, 261, 272, 293, 295–6, 297, 305, 313

  ‘Hill of Illusion, The’, 251

  ‘His Majesty the King’, 48

  Holloway, Harry, 65

  Holloway, Sarah, 65, 66, 67, 69, 92

  Hot Weather, 83, 87, 132–3, 163, 164–5, 170, 195, 215, 236, 258–9, 274

  Hume, Allan Octavian, 88–9, 142–4, 192, 202, 226

  Hunter, Sir William, 57, 144, 259–60, 273

  Hyderabad, Nizam of, 145, 146

  ‘If’-’, 364

  Ilbert Bill, 129–31, 141, 144

  Ilbert, Sir Courteney, 129, 144, 226

  Imperial Diamond Case, 146

  In Black and White, 294

  ‘In Flood-Time’, xvii-xviii, 335

  ‘In the House of Studdhoo’, 175, 213

  ‘In Partibus’, 304–5

  ‘In the Rukh’, 150, 325–6

  ‘In the Spring Time’, 177–8

  ‘Incarnation of Krishna Mulvaney, The’, 300

  India, 19–20; attitude towards ‘natives’ by English, 20–1, 57; British army troops in, 220; British in, 52–3; child-rearing by British women in, 32–4, 48; disillusionment with British rule, 88; droughts and famine, 87–8, 377; and Dufferin, 185–6; economy, 86–7; Imperial Assemblage and crowning of Queen Victoria as Empress, 89–91; Judicial Code, 129; and Lytton, 86–7, 87–8; military murders, 152–3; modern popular image of British, 52; Prince of Wales’ tour of, 85; and Russia, 354; uprisings along North-West Frontier, 354; see also individual places

  Indian Charivari, 76

  Indian Civil Service, 21, 53

  Indian Daily News, 116

  Indian Herald, 146

  Indian Mutiny (1857), 19–20, 21, 149, 247, 279

  Indian National Congress, 57, 144, 202, 226, 258, 259, 286, 287

  Indian Public Opinion, 114–15

  Indian Railway Library series, 255, 269, 292, 298, 301

  Indian Review, 167

  Islam, 211–12, 256

  Jacob, A. M., 145–6

  Jacob Diamond, 146

  Jaipur, 248, 250

  James, Henry, 310, 315, 316, 321, 351, 363

  Japan, 293

  Jatakas, 324, 325

  Jeejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee, 24–5, 27

  Jehan, Emperor Shah, 164

  Jehangir, Emperor, 79

  Jerome, Jerome K., 1

  ‘Job Lot, A’, 270–1, 272

  Journal of Indian Art, 176

  Jungle Books, 5, 46, 184, 250, 329–33, 336, 359, 364

  Just So Stories, 5, 342–3, 349, 359

  Kafiristan, 277–8

  Kapilavastu, 357

  Kaye, Sir John, 245

  Keats, 105

  Keene, G. H., 72, 167, 245

  Khan, Aslam, 209

  Khan, Dilawar, 208

  Khan, Muhammad Hayat, 129

  Khan, Sir Syed Ahmad, 286

  Kim, ix, 2, 4, 5, 8, 24, 46–7, 138, 146, 210–11, 214–15, 324, 329, 338, 344, 346–7, 350, 352–63, 364

  ‘King’s Ankus, The’, 330

  Kipling, Alice (née Macdonald) (mother), 35, 148, 166, 317; appearance, 14; arrival in Bombay, 13–15, 29; birth of Trix, 42; birth of third child (John) and death of, 59; and daughter’s mental breakdown, 346; depression, 110, 112, 328; early romances, 17; engagement and marriage to Lockwood, 16, 18, 19; family background, 15–16; fever bouts, 160; fostering out of children, 65, 72; friendship with Edith Plowden, 84–5; interest in spiritualism, 16; living in Bombay, 30–2, 39–40, 43; living in Lahore, 83, 107–8, 109; and Lord Dufferin, 188–9, 226, 271; member of ‘The Brotherhood’, 17; and ‘Mrs Hauksbee’ character, 231; nursing of husband through typhoid, 86; poetry contributions to The Chameleon, 73–4; returns to England from Bombay for second pregnancy, 41; in Simla, 188–9, 226; and son’s writing, 101, 102, 151, 252, 271; temperament and wit, 14–15, 189; and upbringing of children, 48–9; visits children at Lorne Lodge, 92–3

  Kipling, Carrie (wife), 7, 8–9, 321–2, 323, 338, 339, 340, 316–17

  Kipling, Elsie (daughter) see Bambridge, Elsie

  Kipling, John (son), 59, 342

  Kipling, Josephine (daughter), xvi, 3, 4, 347

  Kipling Journal, 44

  Kipling, Lockwood (John) (father), ix, x, 7, 148, 198, 327–8; appearance and characteristics, 15, 18; arrival in Bombay, 13–15, 29; attacks on by Leitner’s Indian Public Opinion, 114–15; awarded Commander of Indian Empire, 234; Beast and Man in India, 323; collaboration with son and illustrating of books, 328–30, 335, 356–7; commissions, 50, 58, 311; constructing of banners for Imperial Assemblage project, 90, 91; contributions to The Chameleon, 73, 74; and daughter’s engagement to Fleming, 268; and death of father, 18; dislike of sport, 56; drawing classes in Simla, 192; editor of Journal of Indian Art, 176; engagement and marriage, 16, 18, 19; family background, 15–16; illustrations for Steel’s Tales of the Punjab, 325, 328–9; ‘Ladies Sketching Club’, 226; as lea
ding British authority on Indian arts and crafts, 176; leave spent in England, 99; letters to Edith Plowden, 127–8, 176, 186, 311; life in Bombay, 30–2, 39–40; living in Lahore, 82–3, 107; modelling and art career, 16–17, 18, 19; panelling contract for Connaughts, 176, 258; as Pioneer’s correspondent, x, 55–6, 85; political views, 56; relationship with son, 311, 356–7; retirement, 327; running of Mayo School and Lahore Museum, 77–8, 82, 108, 124, 357; in Simla, 226; sketches by, 33, 37, 49, 60, 121, 158, 183, 209, 210, 284, 285, 291, 327, 327; and son’s writing, 204; and ‘Strickland’ character, 231; teaching post at Sir J.J. School of Art (Bombay), 19, 21–3, 38–9, 49–50, 76; and Tibetan Buddhism, 357–8; typhoid, 85–6; and upbringing of children, 48–9; view of Indians, 56–8; view of Lytton, 89–90; view of Ripon, 129; visits son in London, 311

  Kipling, Rudyard

  Early Years: appearance in puberty, 98–9; birth and birthplace, 4, 13, 31–2; and Buddhism, 97; character as a child, 70–1, 96; childhood behaviour, 43; childhood in Bombay, 36–8, 43, 44–6, 61–2; christening, 32; Christmas holidays with Burne-Joneses, 70; clumsiness, 71, 96; companionship of servants, 45–6; contracts whooping cough, 61; education, 93–4; fostered out by parents to couple in Southsea, 63, 64–6; holiday at Nassik, 60–1; holidays at Warwick Gardens, 99–100; ill-treatment of by Mrs Holloway at Lorne Lodge and effect of on, 66–9, 71–2, 92–3; intellect, 99; love of reading and favourite authors, 69–70, 93, 96–7, 98, 100; myopia, 72, 96; and sex, 105; speaking of Urdu and other dialects, 45, 46, 61; as a toddler, 34–5; at United Services College, 94–9, 103–4, 105, 218; visited by mother at Lorne Lodge, 92–3

  in India, 363–4; on achievements in, 289–90; antipathy towards Hindus/Hinduism, 255, 256, 286; and bhai-bhand concept, 61; breakdown, 167–8; change in attitude towards and deep interest in Lahore and citizens of, 207–13; departure from, 288–92; enlistment in 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps, 149, 152; favourably disposed towards Muslims and Islam, 211–12, 256, 286; growing interest in Indian, 172; growth in scepticism over workings of Government of, 132; and Hot Weather, 133, 163, 165, 170, 195, 215, 274; identification with junior offices in Indian Army and British Army, 218–19; interest in British ordinary soldier, 220–3; intimacy with prostitutes, 211; involvement in amateur dramatics, 150, 155, 243–4; living in Allahabad, 244–5, 253–4, 272–3; living in Lahore, 119–22, 128, 148–9, 150, 155–6, 160, 164, 258–9; love of, 207–8; medical facilities for Indian women cause, 240–1; member of Punjab Club, 128–9; night excursions, 165–6, 178–9, 194–5, 195–8; nightmares suffered after reporting on school tragedy, 215; opposition to Indian National Congress, 286, 287; private life in Lahore and sexual assignations, 193–5; reading of Besant’s All in a Garden Fair, 216; reappraisal of Afghan character, 208–10; returns to Bombay of childhood, 119–20; reunion with Trix, 150; revisits Lahore in later years, 319; romances, 204–5; in Simla, 134–47, 186, 187–8, 191–3, 226, 227, 229–30, 243–4, 265–72; studies for Indian Army’s Lower Standard Urdu exam, 149; tour and exploration of Rajputana, 248–51; travels to Benares, 255; visits Calcutta, 256–7; working diary of time in Lahore, 178–9

 

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