Kim is a Novel by Nobel Prize-Winning English author Rudyard Kipling.
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The lama funds Kim\'s education.
The lama insists that Kim should comply with the chaplain\'s plan because he believes it is in Kim\'s best interests, and the boy is sent to a top English school in Lucknow.
By chance, Kim\'s father\'s regimental chaplain identifies Kim by his Masonic certificate, which he wears around his neck, and Kim is forcibly separated from the lama.
Kim\'s trip with the lama along the Grand Trunk Road is the first great adventure in the novel.
On the way, Kim incidentally learns about parts of the Great Game and is recruited by Mahbub Ali to carry a message to the head of British intelligence in Umballa.
Kim becomes his chela, or disciple, and accompanies him on his journey.
Kim befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who is on a quest to free himself from the Wheel of Things by finding the legendary River of the Arrow.
Kim is so immersed in the local culture, few realise he is a white child, though he carries a packet of documents from his father entrusted to him by an Indian woman who cared for him.
He occasionally works for Mahbub Ali, a Pashtun horse trader who is one of the native operatives of the British secret service.
Living a vagabond existence in India under British rule in the late 19th century, Kim earns his living by begging and running small errands on the streets of Lahore.
Plot summary: Kim (Kimball O\'Hara) is the orphaned son of an Irish soldier and a poor Irish mother who have both died in poverty.
The Novel made the term "Great Game" popular and introduced the theme of great power rivalry and intrigue.
The story unfolds against the backdrop of The Great Game, the political conflict between Russia and Britain in Central Asia.
Ltd in October 1901.
It was first published serially in Mc Clure\'s Magazine from December 1900 to October 1901 as well as in Cassell\'s Magazine from January to November 1901, and first published in book form by Macmillan & Co.
Kim is a Novel by Nobel Prize-Winning English author Rudyard Kipling
