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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
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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