Treatment of race, caste, religion and gender in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim: A literary scan through the postcolonial lens

Abstract

Rudyard Kipling’s Kim depicts a masculine world. The women characters are seen to play meagre roles. Kiplingean India depicts the colonized India from colonizer’s point of view. Kim, the protagonist of the fiction is conditioned to be in the great game, “The Game of Empire.” This paper seeks to depict the portrayal of race, caste, gender and religion in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim through postcolonial perspective.