Kipling as the Spokesman for Imperialism, Colonization and for the Supermacy of the British Empire

Mr. Kipling's India, the India of magic and superstition, the India of famineand Pestilence, the India of the civil service and the result is a series of unforgetable snapshot; clear-cut and vivid, tensely dramatic, everywhere suggestive of the clash of civilization and barbarism, and the yawning gulf between the psychic temperaments of the Eastand West. The story-tellertears asidetheveil that lides Anglo-Indian life from the average Englishman, and makes him realise its struggles, its failures, its glories and its shame we may read about famine in the English papers, but the words did not became alive and significant to the home staying reader till he had followed the vicissitudes of william the conqueror. No man has made more terribly significant the agonies of the cruel heat of India than the author of the City of Dreadful Night, or the horror of war than he who wrote, the man who was. No one has brought home the banalities of short sighted administration better than he who drew for us the inimitable picture of Crist Chunder De, M.A., in the Head of the District. This brings us to the most significant thing in Kipling's work-the imperialistic note. (Champeona, 1867)