Editing Kim (novel) (section)

==Characters==
*Kimball "Kim" O'Hara – an orphan son of an Irish soldier, the protagonist; "A poor white, the poorest of the poor"
*Kimball O'Hara Sr. – Kim's father
*Teshoo Lama – a Tibetan lama, the former abbot of the Such-zen monastery in the western Himalayas, on a spiritual journey
*Mahbub Ali – a [[Ghilzai]] [[Pashtun people|Pashtun]] horse trader and spy for the British<ref>See for details Omer Tarin, 'My Quest for Mahbub Ali' in the ''Kipling Journal'' pub by the [[Kipling Society]] June 2008, pp. 10-22</ref>
*Colonel Creighton – a British Army officer, ethnologist, and spy
*Lurgan Sahib – a [[Shimla|Simla]] gem trader and spy
*Hurree Chunder Mookherjee (Hurree Babu, also the Babu) – a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] intelligence operative working for the British; Kim's direct superior
*Reverend Arthur Bennett – the [[Church of England]] chaplain of the Mavericks, the fictional Irish regiment to which Kim's father belonged
*Father Victor – the [[Roman Catholic]] chaplain of the Mavericks
*Huneefa – a sorceress who performs a devil invocation ritual to protect Kim
*E23 – a hunted spy for the British, whom Kim helps by effectively disguising him