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Mowgli
Fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling
For other uses, see Mowgli (disambiguation).
Fictional character
Mowgli (MOW-glee) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling'sThe Jungle Book stories.
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He is a feral boy from the Pench area in Seoni, Madhya Pradesh, India, who originally appeared in Kipling's short story "In the Rukh" (collected in Many Inventions, 1893) and then became the most prominent character in the collections The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), which also featured stories about other characters.[1]
Name and inspiration
In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "bald", describing his lack of fur.
Kipling later said "Mowgli is a name I made up. It does not mean 'frog' in any language that I know of."[2]
Part of Kipling's inspiration for the story of Mowgli is believed to have been William Henry Sleeman's account of six cases in India i