Mowgli

Mowgli () is a fictional character and the protagonist of the Mowgli stories featured among Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories. 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 (on the basis of Marwar king Rao Sihaji) characters.

Key facts

Character.name: Mowgli
Character.series: The Jungle Book
Character.image: Mowgli-1895-illustration.png
Character.image_size: 250px
Character.caption: Mowgli by John Lockwood Kipling (father of Rudyard Kipling); an illustration from The Second Jungle Book (1895)
Character.first: "In the Rukh" (1893)
Character.last: "The Spring Running" (1895)
Character.creator: Rudyard Kipling
Character.nickname: Man-cub, Frog
Character.family: Raksha (foster mother)Father Wolf (foster father)Messua (foster mother)Messua's husband (foster father)
Character.spouse: Unnamed Wife
Character.children

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Name and inspiration
Kipling's Mowgli stories
Play adaptations
Influences upon other works
Films, television and radio
See also
References
External links

==Name and inspiration== In the stories, the name Mowgli is said to mean "frog", 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."