The Rhetoric of English India
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: March 30, 2005
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780143032830
Subjects: Literary studies: general; India; English
First sentence: "THIS WAS HOW IT HAPPENED; AND THE TRUTH IS ALSO AN ALLEGORY OF Empire," claims Kipling's narrator, as he opens with grim brevity the quasi tale of 1886, "Naboth."