Rudyard Kipling
| Rudyard Kipling link Amazon (Author, journalist, poet, propagandist) | |
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| Born | Joseph Rudyard Kipling 30 December 1865 Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India |
| Died | 18 January 1936 London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Haileybury and Imperial Service College |
| Children | 3 including, Elsie Bambridge, John Kipling |
| Spouse | Caroline Starr Balestier |
English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist who co-signed the Authors' Declaration of September 1914 | |
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. Born in British India, which inspired much of his work, he was one of the foremost propagandists for the objectives of the British Empire.
Creating enemy images
His novel Kim, published serially from December 1900 to October 1901, unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game, a political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. The novel popularized the phrase and idea of there in fact being a Great Game,[1] a concept which served to justify British offensive objectives in Central Asia.
By 1902, Kipling had switched focus. In a 1902 poem, The Rowers, Kipling attacked the German Kaiser as a threat to Britain and made the first use of the term "Hun" as an anti-German insult, using Wilhelm's own words and the actions of German troops in China to portray Germans as essentially barbarian.[2]
