Mowgli
Sign in to saveMowgli () 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
- Unnamed son
- Character.nationality
- Indian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- animated character
- Gender
- male
- Creator
- Rudyard Kipling
- Image
- John Charles Dollman - Mowgli made leader of the Bandar Log.jpg
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- Mowgli
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- enemy
- Shere Khan
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- Mowgli
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Name and inspiration
- Kipling's Mowgli stories
- Play adaptations
- Influences upon other works
- Films, television and radio
- See also
- References
- External links
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.
==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."
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