Editing Rudyard Kipling (section)

==Legacy==
In 2002, Kipling's ''[[Just So Stories]]'' featured on a [[Great Britain commemorative stamps 2000–2009|series of UK postage stamps]] issued by the [[Royal Mail]] to mark the centenary of the publication of the book.<ref>{{cite news |title=How the literary chameleon got his kudos |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/how-the-literary-chameleon-got-his-kudos-9196133.html |access-date=19 September 2022 |newspaper=The Independent |date=15 January 2002 |archive-date=20 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920223739/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/how-the-literary-chameleon-got-his-kudos-9196133.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2010, the [[International Astronomical Union]] approved the naming of a crater on the planet [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] after Kipling – one of ten newly discovered [[impact crater]]s observed by the [[MESSENGER]] spacecraft in 2008–2009.<ref>Savage, Sam, [http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1837142/mercury_craters_receive_new_names/index.html "Mercury Craters Receive New Names"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111123092336/http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1837142/mercury_craters_receive_new_names/index.html |date=23 November 2011 }} – Article from the ''Red Orbit'' News network 16 March 2010. Retrieved 18 March 2010.</ref> In 2012, an extinct species of crocodile, ''[[Goniopholis kiplingi]]'', was named in his honour "in recognition for his enthusiasm for natural sciences."<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-17446330 |title=Rudyard Kipling inspires naming of prehistoric crocodile |date=20 March 2011 |work=[[BBC Online]] |access-date=20 March 2012 |archive-date=22 March 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120322185851/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-17446330 |url-status=live }}</ref> More than 50 unpublished poems by Kipling, discovered by the American scholar Thomas Pinney, were released for the first time in March 2013.<ref>{{cite news |title=50 unseen Rudyard Kipling poems discovered |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/25/rudyard-kipling-poems-discovered |work=The Guardian |access-date=26 February 2013 |location=London |first=Alison |last=Flood |date=25 February 2013 |archive-date=9 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209192318/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/25/rudyard-kipling-poems-discovered |url-status=live }}</ref>

Kipling's writing has strongly influenced that of others. His stories for adults remain in print and have garnered high praise from writers such as [[Randall Jarrell]], who wrote: "After you have read Kipling's fifty or seventy-five best stories you realize that few men have written this many stories of this much merit, and that very few have written more and better stories."<ref>Jarrell, Randall (1999). "On Preparing to Read Kipling." ''No Other Book: Selected Essays''. New York: HarperCollins.</ref>

His children's stories remain popular and his ''Jungle Books'' made into several films. The [[Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book|first]] was made by producer [[Alexander Korda]]. Other films have been produced by [[The Walt Disney Company]]. A number of his poems were set to music by [[Percy Grainger]]. A series of short films based on some of his stories was broadcast by the BBC in 1964.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0298668/ |title=The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling |publisher=[[IMDb]] }}</ref> Kipling's work is still popular today.

The poet [[T. S. Eliot]] edited ''[[A Choice of Kipling's Verse]]'' (1941) with an introductory essay.<ref>[[#Eliot|Eliot]]. Eliot's essay occupies 31 pages.</ref> Eliot was aware of the complaints that had been levelled against Kipling and he dismissed them one by one: that Kipling is "a Tory" using his verse to transmit right wing political views, or "a journalist" pandering to popular taste; while Eliot writes: "I cannot find any justification for the charge that he held a doctrine of race superiority."<ref>[[#Eliot|Eliot]], p. 29.</ref> Eliot finds instead:
{{blockquote|An immense gift for using words, an amazing curiosity and power of observation with his mind and with all his senses, the mask of the entertainer, and beyond that a queer gift of second sight, of transmitting messages from elsewhere, a gift so disconcerting when we are made aware of it that thenceforth we are never sure when it is ''not'' present: all this makes Kipling a writer impossible wholly to understand and quite impossible to belittle.|T. S. Eliot<ref>[[#Eliot|Eliot]], p. 22.</ref>}}

Of Kipling's verse, such as his ''[[Barrack-Room Ballads]]'', Eliot writes "of a number of poets who have written great poetry, only... a very few whom I should call great verse writers. And unless I am mistaken, Kipling's position in this class is not only high, but unique."<ref>[[#Eliot|Eliot]], p. 36.</ref>

In response to Eliot, [[George Orwell]] wrote a long consideration of Kipling's work for ''[[Horizon (British magazine)|Horizon]]'' in 1942, noting that although as a "jingo imperialist" Kipling was "morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting", his work had many qualities which ensured that while "every enlightened person has despised him... nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.":
{{blockquote|One reason for Kipling's power [was] his sense of responsibility, which made it possible for him to have a world-view, even though it happened to be a false one. Although he had no direct connexion with any political party, Kipling was a Conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays. Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists. He identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you ''do?''<nowiki>'</nowiki>, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never arrives and 'the gods of the copybook headings', as Kipling put it, always return. Kipling sold out to the British governing class, not financially but emotionally. This warped his political judgement, for the British ruling class were not what he imagined, and it led him into abysses of folly and snobbery, but he gained a corresponding advantage from having at least tried to imagine what action and responsibility are like. It is a great thing in his favour that he is not witty, not 'daring', has no wish to ''[[Épater la bourgeoisie|épater les bourgeois]]''. He dealt largely in platitudes, and since we live in a world of platitudes, much of what he said sticks. Even his worst follies seem less shallow and less irritating than the 'enlightened' utterances of the same period, such as Wilde's epigrams or the collection of cracker-mottoes at the end of ''[[Man and Superman]]''.|George Orwell<ref>{{cite journal |last=Orwell |first=George |title=Rudyard Kipling |journal=[[Horizon (British magazine)|Horizon]] |date=February 1942 |url=http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/kipling/english/e_rkip |access-date=4 December 2013 |archive-date=12 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212053050/http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/kipling/english/e_rkip |url-status=live }}</ref>}}

In 1939, the poet [[W. H. Auden]] celebrated Kipling in a similarly ambiguous way in his elegy for [[W. B. Yeats|William Butler Yeats]]. Auden deleted this section from later editions of his poems.
<blockquote><poem>
Time, that is intolerant
Of the brave and innocent,
And indifferent in a week
To a beautiful physique,

Worships language, and forgives
Everyone by whom it lives;
Pardons cowardice, conceit,
Lays its honours at his feet.

Time, that with this strange excuse,
Pardoned Kipling and his views,
And will pardon [[Paul Claudel]],
Pardons him for writing well.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Auden_InMemoryOfWBYeats.pdf|title=Selected Poems|last=Auden|first=W. H.|chapter=In Memory of W. B. Yeats|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=6 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806202144/https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Auden_InMemoryOfWBYeats.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> 
</poem></blockquote>

The poet [[Alison Brackenbury]] writes "Kipling is poetry's Dickens, an outsider and journalist with an unrivalled ear for sound and speech."<ref>{{cite journal |url=http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/publications/poetrynews/hero/kipling/ |title=Poetry Hero: Rudyard Kipling |publisher=The Poetry Society |access-date=11 February 2013 |author=Brackenbury, Alison |journal=Poetry News |issue=Spring 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523181622/http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/publications/poetrynews/hero/kipling/ |archive-date=23 May 2013 }}</ref>

The English folk singer [[Peter Bellamy]] was a lover of Kipling's poetry, much of which he believed to have been influenced by English traditional folk forms. He recorded several albums of Kipling's verse set to traditional airs, or to tunes of his own composition written in traditional style.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/26/arts/peter-bellamy-47-british-folk-singer-who-wrote-opera.html |title=Peter Bellamy, 47; British Folk Singer Who Wrote Opera |first=Jon |last=Pareles |date=26 September 1991 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=15 July 2014 |archive-date=26 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126033200/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/09/26/arts/peter-bellamy-47-british-folk-singer-who-wrote-opera.html |url-status=live }}</ref> However, in the case of the bawdy folk song, "[[The Bastard King of England]]", which is commonly credited to Kipling, it is believed that the song is actually misattributed.<ref name="bastardking">{{cite web |url=http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/EM122.html |title=Bastard King of England, The |publisher=fresnostate.edu |access-date=19 July 2016 |archive-date=22 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822195001/http://www.fresnostate.edu/folklore/ballads/EM122.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Kipling often is quoted in discussions of contemporary British political and social issues. In 1911, Kipling wrote the poem "The Reeds of Runnymede" that celebrated [[Magna Carta]], and summoned up a vision of the "stubborn Englishry" determined to defend their rights. In 1996, the following verses of the poem were quoted by former Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]] warning against the encroachment of the [[European Union]] on national sovereignty:
<blockquote><poem>At Runnymede, at Runnymede,
Oh, hear the reeds at Runnymede:
'You musn't sell, delay, deny,
A freeman's right or liberty.
It wakes the stubborn Englishry,
We saw 'em roused at Runnymede!

... And still when Mob or Monarch lays
Too rude a hand on English ways,
The whisper wakes, the shudder plays,
Across the reeds at Runnymede.
And Thames, that knows the mood of kings,
And crowds and priests and suchlike things,
Rolls deep and dreadful as he brings
Their warning down from Runnymede!<ref>[https://www.margaretthatcher.org/document/108353 "Keith Joseph Memorial Lecture ("Liberty and Limited Government")"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329122851/http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=108353 |date=29 March 2017 }}. Margaret Thatcher.org. 1996 Jan 11.</ref>
</poem></blockquote>

Political singer-songwriter [[Billy Bragg]], who attempts to build a left-wing [[English nationalism]] in contrast with the more common right-wing English nationalism, has attempted to 'reclaim' Kipling for an inclusive sense of Englishness.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xppmt|title=Rhyme and Reason|author=Billy Bragg|work=BBC Radio 4|access-date=25 January 2011|archive-date=22 January 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110122073316/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xppmt|url-status=live}}</ref> Kipling's enduring relevance has been noted in the United States, as it has become involved in [[Afghanistan]] and other areas about which he wrote.<ref>[http://thecitizen.co.tz/editorial-analysis/-/6762-world-view-is-afghanistan-turning-into-another-vietnam World View: Is Afghanistan turning into another Vietnam?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114033719/http://thecitizen.co.tz/editorial-analysis/-/6762-world-view-is-afghanistan-turning-into-another-vietnam |date=14 November 2012 }}, Johnathan Power, ''The Citizen'', 31 December 2010</ref><ref>[http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/12/is-america-waxing-or-waning.html Is America waxing or waning?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110104232520/http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/12/is-america-waxing-or-waning.html |date=4 January 2011 }}, Andrew Sullivan, ''The Atlantic'', 12 December 2010</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://911poet.blogspot.com/ |title=Rudyard Kipling, official poet of the 911 War |author=Dufour, Steve |work=911poet.blogspot.com |access-date=31 December 2010 |archive-date=8 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708021606/http://911poet.blogspot.com/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Links with camping and scouting===
In 1903, Kipling gave permission to Elizabeth Ford Holt to borrow themes from the ''Jungle Books'' to establish [[Camp Mowglis]], a summer camp for boys on the shores of [[Newfound Lake]] in [[New Hampshire]]. Throughout their lives, Kipling and his wife Carrie maintained an active interest in Camp Mowglis, which still continues the traditions that Kipling inspired. Buildings at Mowglis have names such as [[Akela (The Jungle Book)|Akela]], [[Toomai of the Elephants|Toomai]], [[Baloo]], and Panther. The campers are referred to as "the Pack", from the youngest "Cubs" to the oldest living in "Den".<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Mowglis |url=http://www.mowglis.org/about/history/ |access-date=26 November 2013 |archive-date=3 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203014246/http://www.mowglis.org/about/history/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Kipling's links with the [[Scouting]] movements were also strong. [[Robert Baden-Powell]], founder of Scouting, used many themes from ''Jungle Book'' stories and ''Kim'' in setting up his junior Wolf Cubs. These ties still exist, such as the popularity of "[[Kim's Game]]". The movement is named after [[Mowgli]]'s adopted wolf family, and adult helpers of Wolf Cub (now Cub Scout) Packs take names from ''The Jungle Book'', especially the adult leader called ''[[Akela (The Jungle Book)|Akela]]'' after the leader of the Seeonee wolf pack.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/cubs/index.htm#Jungle |title=ScoutBase UK: The Library – Scouting history – Me Too! – The history of Cubbing in the United Kingdom 1916–present |publisher=Scoutbase.org.uk |access-date=10 September 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051125044919/http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/library/history/cubs/index.htm#Jungle|archive-date=25 November 2005 }}</ref>

===Kipling's Burwash home===
[[File:Bateman's.jpg|thumb|[[Bateman's]], Kipling's beloved home – which he referred to as "A good and peaceable place" – in [[Burwash, East Sussex|Burwash]], East Sussex, is now a public museum dedicated to the author.<ref name="nationaltrust.org.uk">{{cite web |url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans/features/history-at-batemans |title=History at Bateman's |website=National Trust |date=22 February 2019 |access-date=22 February 2019 |archive-date=23 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223131516/https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/batemans/features/history-at-batemans |url-status=live }}</ref>]]
After the death of Kipling's wife in 1939, his house, [[Bateman's]] in [[Burwash, East Sussex]], where he had lived from 1902 until 1936, was bequeathed to the [[National Trust]]. It is now a public museum dedicated to the author. [[Elsie Bambridge]], his only child who lived to maturity, died childless in 1976, and bequeathed her copyrights to the National Trust, which in turn donated them to the [[University of Sussex]] to ensure better public access.<ref>Howard, Philip (19 September 1977) "University library to have Kipling papers". ''The Times'', p. 1.</ref>

Novelist and poet Sir [[Kingsley Amis]] wrote a poem, "Kipling at Bateman's", after visiting Burwash (where Amis's father lived briefly in the 1960s) as part of a BBC television series on writers and their houses.<ref>leader, Zachary (2007). ''The Life of Kingsley Amis''. Vintage. pp. 704–705. {{ISBN|0375424989}}.</ref>

In 2003, actor [[Ralph Fiennes]] read excerpts from Kipling's works from the study in Bateman's, including ''The Jungle Book'', ''Something of Myself'', ''Kim'', and ''The Just So Stories'', and poems, including [[If-|"If ..."]] and "My Boy Jack", for a CD published by the National Trust.<ref>[http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9041659.Personal_touch_brings_Kipling_s_Sussex_home_to_life/?ref=rss "Personal touch brings Kipling's Sussex home to life"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130130055756/http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9041659.Personal_touch_brings_Kipling_s_Sussex_home_to_life/?ref=rss |date=30 January 2013 }}. ''The Argus'', 22 May 2011.</ref><ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/album/rudyard-kipling-readings-by-ralph-fiennes-mw0000021657 "Rudyard Kipling Readings by Ralph Fiennes"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427203934/http://www.allmusic.com/album/rudyard-kipling-readings-by-ralph-fiennes-mw0000021657 |date=27 April 2015 }}. Allmusic.</ref>

===Reputation in India===
In modern-day India, whence he drew much of his material, Kipling's reputation remains controversial, especially among modern nationalists and some post-colonial critics. It has long been alleged that Rudyard Kipling was a prominent supporter of Colonel [[Reginald Dyer]], who was responsible for the [[Jallianwala Bagh massacre]] in [[Amritsar]] (in the province of [[Punjab (British India)|Punjab]]), and that Kipling called Dyer "the man who saved India" and initiated collections for the latter's homecoming prize.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraphindia.com/1130221/jsp/frontpage/story_16587696.jsp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225191140/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130221/jsp/frontpage/story_16587696.jsp |url-status=dead |archive-date=25 February 2013 |title=History repeats itself, in stopping short |website=telegraphindia.com}}</ref> Kim Wagner, senior lecturer in British Imperial History at [[Queen Mary University of London]], says that while Kipling did make a  £10 donation, he never made that remark.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/punjab/rudyard-kipling-gave-10-for-dyer-fund-756595|title=Rudyard Kipling gave £10 for Dyer fund|website=tribuneindia.com|access-date=22 October 2021|archive-date=22 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022042522/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/punjab/rudyard-kipling-gave-10-for-dyer-fund-756595|url-status=live}}</ref> Similarly, author Derek Sayer states that Dyer was "widely lauded as the saviour of Punjab", that Kipling had no part in organizing ''The Morning Post'' fund, and that Kipling only sent £10, making the laconic observation: "He did his duty, as he saw it."<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sayer |first1=Derek |date=1 May 1991 |title=British Reaction to the Amritsar Massacre 1919–1920 |journal=Past & Present |issue=131 |pages=130–164 |doi=10.1093/past/131.1.130}}</ref>  Subhash Chopra also writes in his book ''Kipling Sahib – the Raj Patriot'' that the benefit fund was started by ''The Morning Post'' newspaper, not by Kipling.<ref>{{cite book |title=Kipling Sahib: the Raj patriot |author=Subhash Chopra |publisher=New Millennium |year=2016 |location=London |isbn=978-1858454405}}</ref> ''[[The Economic Times]]'' attributes the phrase "The Man Who Saved India" along with the Dyer benefit fund to ''The Morning Post'' as well.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/jallianwala-bagh-massacre-when-a-british-newspaper-collected-rs-26000-pounds-for-general-dyer/articleshow/68866316.cms?from=mdr|title=Jallianwala Bagh massacre: When a British newspaper collected 26,000 pounds for General Dyer|newspaper=The Economic Times|date=13 April 2019|access-date=22 October 2021|archive-date=11 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211011105310/https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/jallianwala-bagh-massacre-when-a-british-newspaper-collected-rs-26000-pounds-for-general-dyer/articleshow/68866316.cms?from=mdr|url-status=live}}</ref>

Many contemporary Indian intellectuals, such as [[Ashis Nandy]], have a nuanced view of Kipling's legacy. [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first prime minister of independent India, often described Kipling's novel ''[[Kim (novel)|Kim]]'' as one of his favourite books.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtESAq0zPZAC&pg=PA137 |title=Globalization and educational rights: an intercivilizational analysis|first=Joel H. |last=Spring|date=2001|publisher=Taylor & Francis|page= 137|isbn=9781410606020 }}</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r6hlAAAAMAAJ Post independence voices in South Asian writings], Malashri Lal, [[Alamgīr Hashmī]], Victor J. Ramraj, 2001.</ref>

[[G. V. Desani]], an Indian writer of fiction, had a more negative opinion of Kipling. He alludes to Kipling in his novel ''[[All About H. Hatterr]]'':
{{Blockquote|I happen to pick up R. Kipling's autobiographical ''Kim''.

Therein, this self-appointed whiteman's burden-bearing sherpa feller's stated how, in the Orient, blokes hit the road and think nothing of walking a thousand miles in search of something.}}

Indian writer [[Khushwant Singh]] wrote in 2001 that he considers Kipling's "[[If—]]" "the essence of the message of The Gita in English",<ref>[[Khushwant Singh]], [http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211656 "Review of ''The Book of Prayer'' by Renuka Narayanan"]  {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213061351/http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?211656|date=13 December 2013}} , 2001; review and Gita reference cited in [https://indiacurrents.com/if-you-can-keep-your-head-when-all-about-you-are-losing-theirs/ "If – You Can Keep Your Head When All About You Are Losing Theirs"] by Mukund Acharya, ''[[indiacurrents.com]]'', December 26, 2023 (possibly sourced to Wikipedia).{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}}</ref> referring to the [[Bhagavad Gita]], an ancient Indian scripture. Indian writer [[R. K. Narayan]] (1906–2001) said: "Kipling, the supposed expert writer on India, showed a better understanding of the mind of the animals in the jungle than of the men in an Indian home or the marketplace."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/when-malgudi-man-courted-controversy/article6492181.ece?homepage=true|title=When Malgudi man courted controversy|work=The Hindu|first=Nitya|last=Menon|date=11 October 2014|access-date=13 October 2014|archive-date=13 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141013000955/http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/when-malgudi-man-courted-controversy/article6492181.ece?homepage=true|url-status=live}}</ref> The Indian politician and writer [[Shashi Tharoor]] commented "Kipling, that flatulent voice of Victorian imperialism, would wax eloquent on the noble duty to bring law to those without it".<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-empire-railways-myths-gifts|title='But what about the railways ...?' The myth of Britain's gifts to India|first=Shashi|last=Tharoor|date=8 March 2017|access-date=20 April 2020|archive-date=1 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501202303/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/india-britain-empire-railways-myths-gifts|url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Kipling bungalow in the campus of Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai.jpg|thumb|The Kipling Bungalow, located adjacent to the site of his birth and built after Kipling had been sent to England.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Goradia |first=Abha |date=2019-01-31 |title=Kipling Bungalow: Restoration on track, likely to open to public next year |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/rudyard-kipling-bungalow-restoration-on-track-likely-to-open-next-year-5562042/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>]]
In November 2007, it was announced that Kipling's birth home within the campus of the Sir J. J. School of Art in Mumbai would be turned into a museum celebrating the author and his works.<ref>{{cite news |title=Kipling's India home to become museum |date=27 November 2007 |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7095922.stm |access-date=9 August 2008 |first=Zubair |last=Ahmed |archive-date=7 January 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090107091311/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7095922.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> A plaque at the entrance of the Kipling Bungalow, located on campus, is engraved with the words: "Rudyard Kipling, son of Lockwood Kipling, first dean of Sir JJ School of Art, was born here on December 30, 1865."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pal |first=Sanchari |date=2017-01-18 |title=Once Upon a Time: The Inside Story of Rudyard Kipling's Mumbai Connection and 'The Jungle Book' |url=https://thebetterindia.com/82538/rudyard-kipling-jungle-book-mumbai-shimla-seoni/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=The Better India |language=en-US}}</ref> A bust of Rudyard Kipling exists here too.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barnagarwala |first=Tabassum |date=2016-12-31 |title=At Sir JJ School Of Art: Restoration to bring back to life bungalow where Kipling was born |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/at-sir-jj-school-of-art-restoration-to-bring-back-to-life-bungalow-where-kipling-was-born-4452621/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref>