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Although he was widely regarded as one of the most famous British authors of all time, Rudyard Kipling’s birthplace was across the world from the British Isle in what was then known as British India. Kipling drew upon his upbringing in Bombay as inspiration for many of his most famous works including The Jungle Book (1894) and Kim
(1901). The first English-speaker to win the Nobel Prize in Literature harkened back to his childhood in his novel The Eyes of Asia,
about a Sikh Man’s experience fighting in World War I for the British.
Published on June 2, 1917
From Bishen Singh Saktawut, Subedar Major, 215th Indurgurh Todd’s Rajputs, now at Lyndhurst, Hampshire, England, to Madhu Singh, Sawant, Risaldar Major retired 146th Dublana Horse, on his fief which he holds under the Thakore Sahib of Pech at Bukani by the River, near Chiturkaira, Kotah, Rajaputana: