India repetition

Kipling's poem and imperialism in general have racist undertones. Some examples of this found in the poem?

"Heathen folly" (hedensk tåbelighed), "new-caught Sullen peoples."(nyfangede modvillige folkeslag) "Half-devil and half-child"

Empire

A major political unit having a territory of great extent or a number of territories or peoples under a single authority

Slumdog Millionaire

A movie about fate, love and using your life experience

The White Man's Burden

A responsibility for white people to colonize, westernize and "modernize" non-white countries, according to Rudyard Kipling.

Chokra

A text about poor kids begging. One is "born in a drum", and they are only getting out of the drum when they are ready

The historical motivation for Kipling writing and publishing this poem?

America's new adventure as a colonial power, specifically in the Philippines Islands.

Some of the (ironic) "rewards" that the Whites can expect

Blame, hate, ungratefulness, reluctance, rebellion (The blame of those, ye better", "the hate of those ye guard")

Flory

British timber merchant in Orwell's "Burmese Days" - he is Anti-British empire

The message of "The White Man's Burden"?

Kipling is urging the whites (the U.S.) to take up the "burden" of empire, as had Britain and other European nations done before - despite of it being hard and thankless work.

The reward Kipling suggests that the "White man" gets for carrying his "burden?"

Praise from other white men - in this case for example Britain. = "the judgement of your peers"

What the mother in Chokra did - out of love and hoping it would give her children the best possibility of survival

She made her daughter handicapped

(probably) the reason why the daughter in "The Dutiful Daughter" is gone

She ran away to be with a man of another religion

The Dutiful Daughter

Short story describing a woman's search for her daughter lost in the chaos of the Partition.

Some specific things Kipling mentions in the poem that the Whites do for the colonised people

Stop civil wars ("savage wars of peace") give them food ("fill full the mouth of famine") Bring medicine and cure diseases ("bid the sickness cease")

Dr. Veraswami

The Indian Doctor in Orwell's "Burmese Days" - very pro-British

Latika

The girl in Slumdog Millionaire - the love of Jamal's life