The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling was born on December 30, 1865, in Bombay. He wrote The Jungle Book (1894) and was awarded 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature. Since he lived during the Indian freedom struggle, his stories deal with cotemporary India, or rather The Jungle Book is a kind of allegory of British rule in India. As far as, I have observed, Mowgli – just stay and think whether the writer means to say ‘Angli’ – represents the English people living in India and all the animals of the jungle represent the people of India who develop a natural love for the former. Kipling tried to give the readers an idea about how the wolves, the then Indian elites, bring up the small child, Mowgli, and also treat him as their own son. The wolves love Mowgli so much that they do not want him to leave the Jungle i.e. the territory of India. Bagheera, who is the symbol of the leaders in the Congress, loves Mowgli, too. He cannot bear any animal to harm him. Now that Shere Khan (the group of freedom fighters