Rudyard Kiplings Kim

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Hindu caste system and various stereotypes also play an important role in Kipling’s story. For example, every person Kim encounters is immediately identified as either a member of a certain caste, religion, or race. Kipling depicts these stereotypes as they emerged out of colonial racial attitudes about Indian society. The descriptions of the Indian people Kim encounters depict each Indian as a very distinctive member of a certain caste. This is what makes Kim so unique as Kipling’s British protagonist. Kim has the ability to identify and associate with virtually every inhabitant of India. For this reason, Kim is very special, and I believe will serve some “greater” purpose as the novel ensues. Kim is so unique because during the era of Indian colonialism, the British immigrants’ belief was that only two societies inhabited India: white and non white. Kim however, had an intimate bicultural knowledge to communicate on both sides of the divide--the British colonial officials on one ...

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