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Kipling’s Simla child is evidently the ancestor of the fictional Tod and Wee Willie Winkie, both of whom are at ease with the native. In this description of him, the question that occupies Kipling in a number of his stories is quite clear: How can we manage so that the sympathy for and understanding of the natives shown by the child who has been brought up among them are carried over into the administrator who is to rule them?
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Pinney, T. (1986). Simla Notes. In: Pinney, T. (eds) Kipling’s India: Uncollected Sketches 1884–88. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07710-6_20
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