Description
Kipling’s early short stories of the Raj are collected here, creating vivid imagery of the sights and smells of India. Yet far from being a celebration of Empire, Kipling’s tales tell of ‘heat and bewilderment and wasted effort and broken faith’. He writes brilliantly and hauntingly about the barrier between the races, the classes and the sexes; and about innocence, not transformed into experience, but implacably crushed.