Can anyone help Rodney Atwood ([log in to unmask]) with this enquiry.
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Kipling's short story 'William the Conqueror' is I believe his only work
to deal with Indian famine. There was no major famine in the time he
was a correspondent in India, but the worst possibly in Indian history
occurred under Lord Lytton, mainly in Madras in 1877. Kipling depicts this
famine in his story.
Can anyone tell me whether he based his story of a young woman nursing and
helping victims especially children on any real experience? Or give any
other background to the writing of the story please?
Rodney Atwood
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