Kipling is, I think, in many ways hard to categorise. He loved India and its peoples, and did respect them, but in a rather condescending way. And he definitely

Kipling is, I think, in many ways hard to categorise. He loved India and its peoples, and did respect them, but in a rather condescending way. And he definitely believed in the "white man's burden". And yet apparently Kim is popular with Indian intellectuals.