The effect of this appealing child might best be understood in terms of his charisma. Reading Kim is a pleasure – guilty or otherwise – for many reasons, but prominent among these is the character of Kim himself.
However, in his 1901 novel, Kim, Kipling offers a more nuanced engagement with the idea and practice of the Empire than is suggested in such poems as ‘The White Man’s Burden’.Īmong many other things, Kim is a study of the character who gives the novel its name the novel depicts his journeys across Imperial India, and is famous for its depictions of the characters and landscapes he encounters on that journey (though whether these depictions are beautiful, or racist, or both, is the subject of ongoing debate).
Although he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907, Rudyard Kipling’s ‘publicly pronounced racist and imperialist attitudes have’, as Harish Trivedi observes, ‘damned him as an artist for many readers’.
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