Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay India, on December 30 ,1865. There he
passed an idyllic early childhood in the company of Hindustani-speaking nurses who
imbued him with their language and lore .This ended abruptly when ,at the age of
six, he was billeted in the home of Captain and Mrs Halloway in Southsea England.
Five miserable years of Mrs Halloway's browbeating and humiliating punishments
drove Kipling to a nervous breakdown at age eleven. From the ages of twelve through
sixteen ,Kipling attended United Services College ,Wetward Ho!, Devon ,the setting
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