Racial Discrimination in Rudyard Kipling’s the Jungle Book and the Second Jungle Book

ABSTRACT

Before the invention of the printing press books for children were hand written and were in the form of lessons.  At the advent of the 15th century and after the invention of printing press slowly books for children started increasing.   By and by in the 19th century children’s literature focused on themes like realism, fantasy, amusement, alienation and its likes.   The Jungle Books  revolve around the theme of abandonment and law and freedom.  Kipling constantly sticks to the theme of abandonment and fostered child, as he recalls his own childhood feeling.  Children wandering in the forest used to be a common thing and chances of them falling a prey to the wild animals was a common thing.  Mowgli’s tale is that of being alienated from the society.  The Jungle Books reveal the elements and causes of alienation namely difficulty in communication, marginalisation, ecological alienation, sociological alienation and physiological alienation.

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