Kidnapped (short story)

The Rudyard Kipling story "Kidnapped" was first published in the Civil and Military Gazette on March 21, 1887, in the first Indian edition of Plain Tales from the Hills (1888), and in subsequent editions of that collection.

This story is an interesting example of the attitudes of Kipling and his contemporaries towards race, particularly interracial marriage. Kipling appears to accept the norms of his time but displays sympathy for the would-be couple. Kipling also makes his characteristic amused observations of the oddities of social behaviour. The story heavily features irony and satirises contemporary fears about miscegenation.

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