Thank you for this Brian. 

My short answer is first that whatever Orwell called him, Rudyard cannot simply be described as  'jingo imperialist' Imperialist certainly, 'jingo' no. 

And secondly his views on Empire and its responsibilities, on Liberalism, on the hard lives of the Indian common people, and on the perils of democracy, were very close to those of his father. 

But Sandra will have a more sophisticated understanding of the issue than I. 

Good wishes to all

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On 19 Jan 2017, at 21:04, Bryan Diamond <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

A further review of the Lockwood exhibition, in The D Mail,  is online: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/event/article-4116882/Lockwood-Kipling-emerges-son-s-shadow-V-s-splendid-new-exhibition.html

Near the end the critic Alistair Smart writes

In later life, he collaborated with Rudyard too, illustrating many of his books, including Kim and The Jungle Book. The treatment of their relationship, however, is this show’s only failing.

Father and son were close, it is said. But there’s no attempt to address the question of how Rudyard – the ‘jingo imperialist’, as George Orwell called him – adopted a view of the empire and its subjects so ostensibly distant from Lockwood’s own.


For us It is good to have mention of the books. The exhibition indeed does not try to show the relationship  But how correct is he critic re their differing view of the empire?

Bryan



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