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Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of British India in the Twentieth Century. 1977. RAJ: A Scrapbook of British India 1877-1947. ISBN 978-0-312-66307-0; 1979. Tales from the Dark Continent: Images of British Colonial Africa in the Twentieth Century. 1982. A Mountain in Tibet: The Search for Mount Kailas and the Sources of the Great Rivers of Asia.
Plain Tales from the Hills (published 1888) is the first collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling. Out of its 40 stories, "eight-and-twenty", according to Kipling's Preface , were initially published in the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore , Punjab , British India between November 1886 and June 1887.
The story is set on an unnamed 'station', or one of the posts where the British lived during the Raj. It is something of a backwater, "nearly a day's journey " from Lahore; and at the time of the story, "just before the final exodus of the Hill-goers", i.e. at the beginning of the hot season, there are under 20 British in residence.
Rudyard's sister Alice "Trix" Kipling may have been involved in the writing of some of the stories in Plain Tales from the Hills, including "Lispeth": "As is widely acknowledged by Kipling scholars, Alice was a prime contributor to previous Kipling collection, among them Echoes (1884) and Quartette (1885)...In "Trix—The Other Kipling" (Kipling Journal, September 2014), Barbara Fisher ...
"The Arrest of Lieutenant Golightly" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling.It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 23 November 1886 in book form, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection.
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"Miss Youghal's Sais" is a short story in Rudyard Kipling's collection Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). It is the first appearance in book form of the fictional character Strickland. (It was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on 25 April 1887.)
It was first published in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills in 1888, and in subsequent editions of that collection. This story is a Kiplingesque investigation - that is to say a strange combination of close observation, some mild satire of the strangeness of social conventions, and an acceptance of their strangeness, from ...