Rudyard Kipling
Kipling was to be assistant editor of a small local
newspaper, the Civil & Military Gazette. He sailed for India on 20 September 1882 and arrived in
Bombay on 18 October 1882. This arrival changed Kipling, as he explains, "There were yet three or four
days' rail to Lahore, where my people lived. After these, my English years fell away, nor ever, I think,
came back in full strength".
Travels & First writings
During the summer of 1883, Kipling visited Simla (now Shimla), well-known hill station and summer
capital of British India. By then it was established practice for the Viceroy of India and the government to
move to Simla for six months and the town became a "centre of power as well as pleasure." Kipling's
family became yearly visitors to Simla and Lockwood Kipling was asked to serve in the Christ Church
there. He returned to Simla for his annual leave each year from 1885 to 1888, and the town figured
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