Indian Tales

Rudyard Kipling spent a lot of time in the British colonies where he observed many things. He put down his thoughts and observations in a book called Indian Tales. Indian Tales is a collection of 35 short stories based on British life in the Indian subcontinent. The book mostly details the adventures of three soldiers, Ortheris, Learoyd, and Mulvaney.

The dialogues, portrayals, situations, characters, and stories are funny, rich, and fresh, even though they were published almost a century ago. There are also stories about hauntings and ghosts, as well as autobiographical elements of fictional individuals.

Rudyard Kipling wrote the stories primarily in the 1880s when he was working as a journalist in India. Some of the most popular stories from this book include The Phantom Rickshaw and Wee Willie Winkie. In these stories, Kipling examines the conflict between the West and East while exploring the controversial subjects of race, empire, and the practice of going native.

Many literary experts have observed that the book covers some of the things that Kipling struggled with in his youth. Indian Tales may have also encouraged Kipling to write The Jungle Book, for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature.