Colonial aspects in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

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Rudyard Kipling, the pro- colonial writer, embraces the doctrine that the task of enlightening and civilizing the humankind could be attained only by using a tough strategy against those under the subjugation.

He strongly believes that the civilized British colonizers should look after and supply food for the colonized indigenes who are uncivilized and savage in his viewpoint.

What makes this fact more terrible is that the relationship between the subjugators and the natives is primarily dependent on maltreatment and utilization.

And, this is the real image that Kipling tries to conceal through his novels which are mostly dedicated to praise the men of Empire.

The most important fact in his narratives is that the spy of Empire comes first because he assists the Kingdom to understand the locals and to constitute a better link with them, and therefore, Kim can be regarded as a good example to illustrate this conception.