The Naulahka A Story Of East And West

The Naulahka: A Story of West and East is a 1892 novel by Rudyard Kipling in collaboration with Wolcott Balestier, which was originally serialized in The Century Magazine from November 1891 to July 1892. The book is set in the fictional state of "Rahore", believed to be based on Rajputana. The book consists of grand narrative poetry. It was not well-received, either commercially or critically in Kipling's time.

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Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) was a British author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children's books, including The Jungle Book (1894), The Second Jungle Book (1895), Just So Stories (1902), and his novel Kim (1901). Among his short stories are The Man Who Would Be King (1888) and the collections Life's Handicap (1891), The Day's Work (1898), and Plain Tales from the Hills (1888). Kipling was one of the most popular writers in English, in both prose and verse, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. he published a novel, The Light That Failed; had a nervous breakdown; and met an American writer and publishing agent, Wolcott Balestier, with whom he collaborated on a novel, The Naulahka In 1907, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English language writer to receive the prize, and he remains today its youngest-ever recipient. Amongst his other works are Limits and Renewals (1932), Something of Myself (1937), Thy Servant a Dog (1938) and Many Inventions.

Kate Sheriff, a young American woman, knew her calling was to move to India where she would dedicate herself to improving the condition of Indian women. In her ensuing struggle, Kipling presents east and west side by side and reveals the complex, often tangled nature of the two.