Kim becomes his chela, or disciple, and accompanies him on his journey. Kim befriends an aged Tibetan lama who is on a quest to free himself from the Wheel of Things by finding the legendary ″River of the Arrow″. Kim is so immersed in the local culture that few realise he is a white child, although he carries a packet of documents from his father entrusted to him by an Indian woman who cared for him. He occasionally works for Mahbub Ali, a Pashtun horse trader who is one of the native operatives of the British secret service. Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore. Kim (Kimball O'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier (Kimball O'Hara Sr., a former colour sergeant and later an employee of an Indian railway company) and a poor Irish mother (a former nanny in a colonel's household) who have both died in poverty. In 2003 the book was listed on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". 78 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Kim No. "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, and the life of the bazaars and the road." Accolades The novel is notable for its detailed portrait of the people, culture, and varied religions of India.
It is set after the Second Afghan War (which ended in 1881), but before the Third (fought in 1919), probably in the period 1893 to 1898. The novel popularized the phrase and idea of the Great Game. The story unfolds against the backdrop of the Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia. It was first published serially in McClure's Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co.
Kim is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author Rudyard Kipling.
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