Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-26
The Viceroy at Patiala....Pages 26-31
A Week in Lahore....Pages 31-36
A Week in Lahore....Pages 36-42
Music for the Middle-Aged....Pages 42-45
The Tragedy of Crusoe, C.S.....Pages 45-51
The Amritsar Fair [I]....Pages 51-57
The Amritsar Fair [II]....Pages 58-64
A Week in Lahore....Pages 64-65
A Week in Lahore....Pages 66-69
Typhoid at Home....Pages 69-77
To Meet the Ameer....Pages 77-80
The City of Evil Countenances....Pages 81-85
To Meet the Ameer....Pages 85-90
To Meet the Ameer....Pages 91-94
To Meet the Ameer....Pages 95-97
To Meet the Ameer....Pages 97-104
Simla Notes....Pages 104-108
Simla Notes....Pages 108-111
Simla Notes....Pages 111-118
De Profundis....Pages 118-124
My Christmas Caller, or the Prescription of Sieur Asmodeus....Pages 125-135
An Armoured Train....Pages 135-140
A Week in Lahore....Pages 140-141
A Week in Lahore....Pages 141-146
A Week in Lahore....Pages 146-148
A Popular Picnic....Pages 148-153
Captain Hayes and the Horse....Pages 154-158
Hobson-Jobson....Pages 158-160
A Week in Lahore....Pages 160-163
The Queen’s Highway....Pages 163-170
Out of Society....Pages 170-175
The Epics of India....Pages 175-178
Tommy Atkins in Burma....Pages 179-179
Of Criticisms....Pages 180-182
Of Criticisms....Pages 182-184
Anglo-Indian Society....Pages 184-193
The Jubilee in Lahore....Pages 193-202
In Reply to the Amateur....Pages 202-203
The First Empress of the East....Pages 203-206
The Sutlej Bridge....Pages 206-214
The Chak-Nizam Bridge....Pages 215-223
Concerning One Gymkhana....Pages 224-228
In the Clouds....Pages 228-232
Further Developments....Pages 232-235
The Private Services Commission....Pages 235-242
Our Change. By ‘Us’....Pages 243-246
The House of Shadows....Pages 246-248
A Break on the Line....Pages 249-254
An Important Discovery....Pages 254-257
The Longest Way Round....Pages 257-265
‘The City of the Two Creeds’....Pages 265-269
To Kabul and Back: Mr O’Meara’s Experiences....Pages 269-275
The Great Strike (A Tale of 1910)....Pages 275-279
‘The Biggest Liar in Asia’ (by One Who Knows Him)....Pages 279-281
The Old Station (by the Visitor)....Pages 281-285
‘Till the Day Break’....Pages 285-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-302