Talk:Kim (novel)

message: I bought the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kim recently.  I presume scanning it for WP purposes constitutes Fair Use, so I'll get on it shortly. Hide&Reason 12:16, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not use a public domain edition since they are available?  Fair Use should only be used when there is no other option.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 13:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cover for the infobox

message: When the story was published in instalments from December 1900 through to 1901?
Surely this is (very) early twentieth century?
Jatrius 11:12, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why the Nineteenth Century Literature Box?

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kim .jpeg

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Kim cover.jpg

message: I remember reading somewhere that either Lala Lajpat Rai or Lal bahadur Shastri (I do not remember which one of them) threw a copy of Kim out of the window of a running train after being disgusted with its inaccurate portrayal of the India of that time. I am not able to find any sources on the web though, can anybody help?
 "If you want to look at the India of Kipling's time, there is no writer who will give it to you better" 
Salman Rushdie interview by James Campbell The Guardian, Saturday 30 September 2006 (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/sep/30/fiction.salmanrushdie)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.63.56.10 (talk) 20:27, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: The point of the English needing intelligence from Afghanistan, hinges in a large part on the disastrous retreat from Kabul at the end of the Second First Afghan War. This is recalled in the book. A major force cannot be sent because it would probably be opposed by hillsmen. Anything that is done, must be done clandestinely. This doesn't seem to be brought out here. Student7 (talk) 12:40, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. AFTER the end of the Second First Afghan War, which was a disaster. This is recounted in the book. But before the Third One. Student7 (talk) 22:55, 7 April 2010 (UTC)

text: I suspect that the expedition in Kim is a heavily fictionalized rendering of the Siege of Malakand. Fatidiot1234 (talk) 17:10, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently, it was the First Afghan War, the Massacre of Elphinstone's Army that is recounted in Kim. Pushes the potential date back a bit. Student7 (talk) 21:04, 14 April 2011 (UTC)

text: Good. The book was published "just" after the Second Afghan War. Of course, Kim could have received it much later. Student7 (talk) 19:44, 16 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Glad you approve. This knocks away your speculation about the First Afghan War. BTW, the source is cited in the article. Fatidiot1234 (talk) 03:53, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Second Afghan War

message: There are several problems with adding "adaptations" beyond a section for filmography. One is that for lesser known works, we seem to be promoting lesser works as WP:SPAM, particularly if they are modern. The more prominent a topic is (and Kim is fairly high up I think), the worse (more galling) the comparison is, IMO.
The opposite is also true of a lesser known article. So if a later author who is better known/more prominent writes/adapts it, does this now make this work more famous by his selection? "Reflected glory?" IMO, either raises more questions than it solves and requires, particularly for works that are in multiple articles, too much maintenance for too little reason, unless one of them is promoting spam, which I hope we aren't. Student7 (talk) 23:05, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional adaptations

message: I've suggested the move of the content from The Royal Loyal Musketeers ("The Mavericks") into this article. The Musketeers' article doesn't stand alone for notability or depth. With no objections, I'll perform this merge next week. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:59, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have performed this merge. -- Mikeblas (talk) 14:09, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge from Royal Loyal 

message: "One was visibly French, the other Russian, but they spoke English not much inferior to the Babu's."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.108.27.26 (talk) 23:45, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Russian Intelligence agents: 

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message: One thing that has bothered me from the first time I read the novel. There are two searches in the novel, the lama's search for his river, and Kim's search for himself. It ends with the lama finding his river, but Kim has still not found himself. Comments? JHobson3 (talk) 00:06, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question 

message: need themes Sohaibahmad92 (talk) 19:10, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  add themes plz