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TLS, one page, 4.5 x 7, Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex letterhead, January 26, 1927. Letter to an unidentified gentleman, in full: “In reply to your letter of yesterday, the description of the Bandar-Log in the Jungle Book was not written as a description of the Franch [sic] nation.” The upper left corner is marked “Private.” Affixed to the bottom is an old newspaper clipping in French, which reads, in part (translated): ‘One of our colleagues writes that Rudyard Kipling has always loved France, ever since his youth there…This is not entirely true. Before the war, Kipling, on the contrary, had little love for the French; he even painted us, in The Jungle Book, in the guise of the monkey people, the ‘bandar logs.’’ In fine condition.
Bandar-log is a term used in Rudyard Kipling's classic 1894 novel, The Jungle Book, to describe the monkeys of the Seeonee jungle. In Hindi, Bandar means ‘monkey’ and log means ‘people’ – hence the term simply refers to ‘monkey people.’ The term has also become a broader idiom for people who are considered vacuous, jabbering, and lacking in seriousness.
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