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3 unusual facts about Edmund Candler


Edmund Candler

Preferring the politically quiescent atmosphere of a princely state, he took up the post of Principal at Mohindra College, Patiala.

He aimed to finance his literary ambitions by teaching, and was first employed by a school at Darjeeling in the Himalayan foothills.

The Kiplingesque image of India as a grandiose and irrational land comes naturally to Candler, and when describing locations significant in Kipling’s own fiction, such as Benares (Varanasi), he applies imaginative treatments and tropes such as the heroic, Romantic or Gothic to some degree pre-fabricated for him by his master.



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