Although readers like Edward Said and Patrick Brantlinger have stressed the delight that the novel takes in representing the people of India, there is inevitably something sinister in the way that it observes, classifies, and separates these people into different communities. Kim is keenly attuned to the details of human difference. The text of the novel, in contrast, represents the Grand Trunk Road as a cornucopia of vivid colors-red, blue, pink, white, and saffron-whose profusion complements the travelers’ human diversity. The illustration portrays all of these people in the same pale shade of green, making them look very much alike. Scanned by Jacqueline Banerjee.Ī photographed plaster relief illustration that John Lockwood Kipling produced for his son Rudyard’s novel Kim (1900–01) shows Kim and the Lama strolling down the Grand Trunk Road in the company of Indian men and women (Fig. “On the Road,” an illustration for Rudyard Kipling’s Kim.
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