Exhibition reveals Victorian designer’s expertise, promotion of Punjabi arts, and lasting impact on son Rudyard
If the teenage son of a Methodist preacher had not visited the Great Exhibition in 1851, The Jungle Book and other beloved works of Rudyard Kipling would probably never have been created. The awe-struck visitor was not the author but his father, John Lockwood Kipling, whose life was changed forever by the Indian treasures he saw on display at Crystal Palace, and whose passion for India profoundly influenced his son.
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