![]() ![]() He learned the language and, in this bustling city of Anglos, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and Jews, connected with the country and its culture. Along with his younger sister, Alice, he reveled in exploring the local markets with his nanny. His father, an artist, was the head of the Department of Architectural Sculpture at the Jeejeebhoy School of Art in Bombay.įor Kipling, India was a wondrous place. The family lived well, and Kipling was especially close to his mother. At the time of his birth, his parents, John and Alice, were recent arrivals in India as part of the British Empire. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay (now called Mumbai), India. Kipling was the recipient of the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. A decade later, Kipling married Caroline Balestier and settled in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he wrote The Jungle Book (1894), among a host of other works that made him hugely successful. Rudyard Kipling was born in India in 1865 and educated in England but returned to India in 1882. ![]()
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