British Indian colonialism and Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling penned a poem entitled The White Man's Burden where the 'white man's burden' is 'To seek another's profit, And work another's gain' where there are almost endless travails for colonialists. Rudyard Kipling also penned a story entitled The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows which graphically depicts horrors of opium dens.

The British controlled the opium trade on the Indian subcontinent. Rudyard Kipling did lots of harm pushing 'the white man's burden' as an ennobling civilizing mission which Kipling grasped was a vicious asinine lie.