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My take-away is that Kipling was playing the social enforcer on this one, making sure everybody lined up with the Empire using the soldiers as cover, like you said, plus ça change. He was particularly talented, but it stills looks pretty manipulative from the outside, an ascetically pleasing Rush Limbaugh.
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