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In these stories, first published over a hundred years ago, Kipling sets the stage for encounters between the East and the West—between India and Anglo-India. The tales are remarkable not just for the range of Indian places and situations they describe or their wealth of historical detail but also for their sensitive and by and large fair representations of both British and Indian characters, Kipling takes on the thorny issues of empire, race, miscegenation and ...
How did the elephant get his long trunk? What happened when the little butterfly stamped in anger? How did the dog, horse and cow become man's first friends? Who wrote the first letter and invented the alphabet? In this collection of well-loved tales by Rudyard Kipling, we read of many such wonderful happenings. There are stories here from the Jungle Book, about Mowgli and his friends Baloo and Bagheera, and about Rikki-Tikki Tavi, the brave Mongoose. Also ...