吉卜林是英国获得诺贝尔文学奖的第一人,但是由于“后殖民主义之父”爱德华·赛义德将他置于后殖民主义的语境当中进行研究和作者本身诗作中“白人的负担”和“东方就是东方,西方就是西方,二者永难相会”等语言的出现,使得吉卜林在文坛的声誉衰落,一直被排除在主流文学之外,只能作为儿童文学作家的代表。将吉卜林的作品放置在后殖民话语中解读方式往往容易忽略吉卜林作品的文学性和审美趣味。《基姆》是被认为是吉卜林最重要的一部长篇小说,本文主要从印度文化方面去对这部作品解读。 Kipling was Britain’s first person to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, but because “the father of post-colonialism” Edward Said has placed him in the context of post-colonialism to conduct research and writers’ own poems, The emergence of language such as “the burden of white people” and “the east is the east, the west is the west and the two never meet each other” made Kipling’s reputation decline in the literary world and has been excluded from the mainstream literature only Can serve as a representative of children’s literature writer. It is often easy to overlook the literary and aesthetic taste of Kipling’s works by placing Kipling’s works in post-colonial discourse. Kimi is regarded as the most important novel of Kipling. This article mainly interprets this work from the aspect of Indian culture.