![]() For me, this was easy because I got this book freely from the public domain and nowadays that takes like a century or something. Buy a discounted Hardcover of Kim online from Australias leading. ![]() ![]() Hence I am inclined to give the benefit of the doubt and attribute such things to the context of the times. Booktopia has Kim, Cambridge Library Collection - Fiction and Poetry by Rudyard Kipling. Though there were were some problematic remarks about certain groups, they were never the dominant theme. Of course, I did not read it particularly critically and not being fully aware of Kipling's racial views (apparently it was him who coined the 'White man's burden' phrase?) I can't analyse the book in this fashion. The second thing this book has sparked an interest of is British Intelligence services, both within the context of the Great Game and later conflicts. I've never experienced that from a novel before. Coming from a South Asian background myself, it was a genuine pleasure to have understood the myriad of cultural and linguistic references. This book has motivated me to check out more literature of the subcontinent, as it really does portray British India in such a fascinating light - a flurry of religious, racial, linguistic and cultural diversity. Overall a nice read, moves at a slow pace but two things in particular kept me interested: the immense cultural and linguistic references, and the wider backdrop of the geopolitical 'great game' played in espionage between Great Britain and Russia. ![]()
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