Indian Society during British Colonization: A Spirit of Multiculturalism in Rudyard Kipling’s KIM

There are a lot of paradoxes about the influence of colonization in the countries which become the target of colonization. As a matter of fact, like or dislike, colonization does bring powerful change to the course of a nation’s history. This study will discuss about a novel KIM written by Rudyard Kipling. This novel has relation with imperialism and colonialism. It tells about an adventure of a young Irish orphan who is so well adapted into Indian street life. He is frequently mistaken for a Hindu. He is a White man but his guardians are Hindus and Moslems. He is very poor and he also lives by his wits. Kim leaves the half-caste woman who has raised him to become a guide and disciple of a Tibetan lama. He ends up as a British schoolboy acting as a spy for the British military. The influences of colonialism can be seen really clear in this novel. In this occasion, the writer wants to find out about colonialism in this context. This discussion will give a different side about colonialism itself. Post-colonialism will be the approach which can support this discussion. In the end, multiculturalism is one of the results in the process of colonialism