Kipling’s advocacy of Buddhism in Kim
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Indian Religion is one of the significant themes of the novel Kim by Rudyard Kipling. India has been a home for Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs and people from many other religions in the world, but Hinduism has been the religion of majority of people in India for centuries. In this context, usually, one does expect a priest from Hinduism to represent Indian Religion in a novel like Kim, which is purely about India. Ironically, Kipling opted for a Tibetan Lama to be the spiritual teacher in Kim. This paper investigates into motivations behind selection of a Buddhist Monk as the religious teacher in Kim to represent Indian Religion.
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