Rudyard Kipling, an English novelist, was born in Bombay, British India, in 1865.
Rudyard Kipling, an English poet and story writer, was one of the earliest masters of the short tale in English, and he was the first to utilise Cockney accent in serious poetry. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India, on December 30, 1865. His father was an architectural sculpture professor at the Bombay School of Art. Kipling was brought to England for his studies in 1871. Rudyard enrolled in the United Services College at Westward, a boarding school in Devon, in 1878.
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