The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book is Rudyard Kipling’s 1894 collection of stories, including tales of Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves in an Indian jungle.

Mowgli: A human boy in Kipling’s stories who grows up among wolves in the Indian jungle. His story links several of the collection’s most famous tales.
Rudyard Kipling: An English writer and poet whose works include The Jungle Book and Kim. He created the collection and its linked animal stories.
Bombay: The city now called Mumbai, where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865. Kipling’s childhood in India informs the setting and atmosphere of the stories.
Jungle law: A fictional code governing the conduct and social order of animals in Kipling’s jungle stories. Its rules give the animal community a shared framework for Mowgli’s upbringing.
The Jungle Book (1967 film): A 1967 animated musical film by Walt Disney Productions, loosely adapted from Kipling’s stories. Its comic tone and altered plot differ sharply from the original collection.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi: A mongoose who protects an English family from two cobras in a Kipling story. This standalone animal adventure sits alongside the Mowgli stories.
Indian wolf: A wolf subspecies native to the Indian subcontinent and parts of the Middle East. Wolves raise Mowgli within the fictional jungle pack.
Simla: A Himalayan hill station, now called Shimla, that served as British India’s summer capital. Kipling worked in the region as a journalist before writing the collection.
Coming-of-age story: A narrative centered on a young person’s psychological or moral development toward adulthood. Mowgli’s movement between human and animal societies gives the cycle a coming-of-age shape.
The Jungle Book (1994 film): A live-action adventure film that reimagines Kipling’s Mowgli stories in a colonial-era setting. It turns the animal-centered narrative into a human-focused adventure.

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