The Jungle Book is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling, who was born in India. Most of the stories follow Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, and his friends and enemies, including the bear Baloo, the panther Bagheera and the tiger Shere Khan. Other tales in the collection, including Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, tell of animals in India. The stories are written as fables, with a strong code of law and loyalty, and they were popular with both children and adults. A second volume followed the next year. The stories inspired the early Scouting movement, and have been adapted for stage, film and television, notably the animated Disney film.
Before and after
- 20 October 1893Birth of Jomo Kenyatta
- 25 October 1893Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 26 December 1893Birth of Mao Zedong
- from 1894 to 1906Dreyfus affair
- 1894Publication of The Jungle Book
- from 1894 to 1897Hamidian massacres
- 1 January 1894Birth of Satyendra Nath Bose
- 1894Launch of Billboard
- 1894Publication of Pyramid Texts
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- 1894Radio
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