Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; C.Rooney & K.Nagai Kipling's Unloved Race: The Retreat from Modernity; B.Parry How 'The White Man's Burden' Lost Its Scare-Quotes: Kipling and the New American Empire; J.Plotz Empire's Children; D.Landry & C.Rooney The Alterity of Terror: Reading Kipling's 'Uncanny' India; J.Collins Kipling's Other Burden: Counter-narrating Empire; R.B.Singh 'Arguing with the Himalayas'?: Edward Said on Rudyard Kipling; H.Trivedi Blindness and the Idea of the Artist in Rudyard Kipling's They and Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost ; S.Chew What They Knew of Nation and Empire: Rudyard Kipling and C. L. R. James; C.Westall Ex-patriotism; B.Grant & K.Nagai Index