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[Apr 14 2007] INDIA

	Allen, Charles	Kipling's Kingdom	Michael Joseph		1987
	Allen, Charles	Kipling Sahib	Little, Brown	London	2007		India and the Making of Rudyard Kipling
	Bennett, Mary	The Ilberts in India	BACSA	Putney	1995		BACSA is Brit. Assoc. for Cemeteries in South Asia. Author is daughter of H.A.L.Fisher and an Ilbert on her mother's side.
	Cornell, Louis L	Kipling in India	Macmillan	London	1966
	Hagiioannu, Andrew	The Man who Would be Kipling	Palgrave Macmillan	London	2003		The Colonial Fiction and the Frontiers of Exile
	Hunter, Sir William W.	The Thackerays in India & Some Calcutta Graves	Henry Frowde (OUP)	London	1897		First edition.
	Kipling, J Lockwood	Beast and Man in India		London	1892 second edition		A prime source for details of Indian animals
	MacMunn, Major G.F	The Armies of India - Paintings by A.C.Lovett	A. & C. Black	London	1911
	MacMunn, Lt.Gen. Sir George	The Living India	G. Bell & Sons	London	1934
	MacMunn, Lt.Gen. Sir George	The Romance of the Indian Frontiers	Jonathan Cape	London	1931
	Munson, Arley	Kipling's India	Eveleigh Nash & Co.	London	1916		Illustrated topography.
	Pinney, Thomas	Kipling's India, Uncollected Sketches 1884-88	Macmillan & Co.	London	1986
	Robinson, Phil	In My Indian Garden	Sampson Lowe	London	1888		A book of pen portraits admired by RK and used by him as a source. Author was the son of the first editor of the Pioneer and the elder brother of E.Kay Robinson.
	Sanderson, G P	Thirteen Years among the Wild Beasts of India		London	1878		A source for the Jungle Books He was the original of 'Petersen Sahib' in "Toomai of the Elephants"
	Sandison, Alan	The Wheel of Empire	Macmillan	London	1967
	Sleeman, W H	An Account of Wolves Nurturing Children in their Dens		Plymouth	1852 Reprinted in Zoologist, 3rd series, vol xii. 1888 pp. 87-98		A source for the Mowgli stories
	Steel, Flora Annie	Tales of the Punjab	Macmillan & Co.	London	1894		Illustrated by J. Lockwood Kipling. See also life of Steele by Violet Powell.
	Sterndale, R A	Seonee, or Camp Life on the Satpura Range		London	1877		Key source for the Jungle Books
	Sterndale, R A	Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon	Thacker Spink	Calcutta	1884, abridged and revised by Frank Finn, 1929		Key source for the Jungle Books
	Sterndale, R A	Denizens of the Jungles:A Series of Sketches of Wild Animals, Illustrating Their Forms and Attitudes		Calcutta	1886		Key source for the Jungle Books
	Tennent, Sir J E	The Wild Elephant		London	1867		A source for the Jungle Books
	Tod, Lt-Col James	Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan			1829 and many subsequent reprints		Source for Kipling when travelling in Rajasthan
	Wurgaft, Lewis D.	The Imperial Imagination: Magic and Myth in Kipling's India	Wesleyan UP	Middletown,CT	1983		What psychohistory can and should be.

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