Seeing him bleed, the priests cried that he was 'Neither God nor Devil but a man!' Most of the Kafirs turned against Dravot and Peachey. Terrified at marrying a god, the girl bit Dravot when he tried to kiss her. Their schemes were destroyed when Dravot decided to marry a Kafir girl.The Kafirs practiced a form of Masonic ritual, and Dravot's reputation was further cemented when he showed knowledge of Masonic secrets that only the oldest priest remembered. Kafirs (pagans, not Muslims) were impressed by guns and Dravot's lack of fear of their idols, and acclaimed him as a god, the descendant of Alexander the Great.Dravot and Peachy succeeded in becoming kings, finding the Kafirs, who turn out to be white, mustering an army, taking over villages, and dreaming of building a unified nation.He is a broken man, a crippled beggar clad in rags and he tells an amazing story : Two years later, Peachey creeps into the narrator's office.They ask the narrator for the use of any books or maps of the area–as a favor, because they are fellow freemasons, and because he spoiled their blackmail scheme. They plan to find a king or chief, help him defeat his enemies then take over for themselves. Dravot can pass as a native, and they have twenty rifles. The next day they will go off to Kafiristan to set themselves up as kings.They think that India is not bg enough for them anymore. later they appear in his office and tell him about their plan.He stopped them from blackmailing a minor Rajah. while on a tour of some Indian native states he meets two scruffy adenturers, Daniel Dravot and Peachey Carnehan. The narrator of the story is a British journalist in India-Kipling himself, in all but name.The story was inspired by the exploits of James Brook.

It’s a novella about two adventurers in British India who become kings of Kafiristan.received contrastive views on his works: seen as a chronicler, critic and/or supporter of the Empire.awarded Nobel prize in 1907, later poet laureate as well as knighthood, which he rejected.returned to India to become a member of the editorial staff of the Civil and Military Gazette 1982.Spent five unhappy years with a foster family in Southsea, England.Born at Bombay, India in 1865 his father the Principal of the newly founded School of Art, Sir JamjetjeeJejeebhoy.Rudyard Kipling The man who would be king

Kipling the man who would be king