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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Categories
Adventure film charactersChild characters in animated filmsChild characters in literatureFictional adopteesFictional feral childrenFictional Indian people in literatureLiterary characters introduced in 1893Male characters in animationMale characters in filmMale characters in literatureOrphan characters in literatureThe Jungle Book characters