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Illustration by John Lockwood Kipling (Rudyard's father) "Toomai of the Elephants" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling about a young elephant-handler. It was first published in the December 1893 issue of St. Nicholas magazine and reprinted in the collection of Kipling short stories, The Jungle Book (1894). [1]
An 1899 newspaper correspondent [14] and Sir Theodore James Tasker, in an article published by the Kipling Society in 1971 suggested that "Petersen Sahib, the man who caught all the elephants for the Government of India" in the Jungle Book story, Toomai of the Elephants by Rudyard Kipling, was a reference to George Peress Sanderson.
Elephant Boy is a 1937 British adventure film starring Indian-born actor Sabu in his film debut. [2] Documentary filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty, who produced some of the Indian footage, and supervising director Zoltan Korda, who completed the film, won the Best Director Award at the Venice Film Festival.
Elephant Boy is a 1973 Australian-British-German series based on the Rudyard Kipling story Toomai of the Elephants. It was shot on location in Sri Lanka from December 1971 to April 1972 and consisted of 13 episodes. [1] It aired on Channel Seven in Australia in 1973. [2]
When they come back, he is hailed by both hunters and elephants, and the oldest and wisest hunter says that when Little Toomai grows up, he'll be called Toomai of the Elephants like his grandfather. "Shiv and the Grasshopper" This story has been published as a short book, and was the basis of the 1937 film Elephant Boy. [18] Toomai at the ...
Elephant Boy may refer to: Elephant Boy (film) , a 1937 film based on Rudyard Kipling's "Toomai of the Elephants" Elephant Boy (TV series) , a 1973 TV series based on "Toomai of the Elephants"
Born in 1924 in Karapura, Mysore, Kingdom of Mysore, then a Princely State of British India, [2] [7] [8] his father was a mahout (elephant keeper/trainer). While most reference books list his full name as "Sabu Dastagir" (which was the name he used legally), research by journalist Philip Leibfried suggests that his birth name was in fact Selar Sabu.
This list of fictional pachyderms is a subsidiary to the List of fictional ungulates.Characters from various fictional works are organized by medium. Outside strict biological classification, [a] the term "pachyderm" is commonly used to describe elephants, rhinoceroses, tapirs, and hippopotamuses; this list also includes extinct mammals such as woolly mammoths, mastodons, etc.