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The Pench National Park is located in the Seoni and Chhindwara districts of Madhya Pradesh – and the main entrance is a short 2 hour\u00a0drive away from Nagpur.<\/p>\n
Seeonee<\/em>\u00a0is, of course,\u00a0familiar to anyone who has read Rudyard Kipling’s\u00a0The Jungle Book<\/em><\/strong>. The book was set in the jungles of Central India and the precocious man-cub Mowgli – “stranger to man, friend of animals, brother of the wolves<\/strong><\/em>”\u00a0– was raised by the Wolf Pack of\u00a0these same Seeonee Hills. So the Pench Tiger Reserve is the fictional home of Mowgli and his friends – Bagheera the Black Panther, Baloo the Bear, the Bandar-log, and of course Shere Khan, the tiger.<\/p>\n Rudyard Kipling first wrote about Mowgli in a short story titled In The Rukh<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>It, too, is set in Seoni in the rukh (meaning jungle),\u00a0 and tells the tale of a forest ranger in the time of the British Raj who comes across Mowgli and invites him to become a ranger too. This short story was written before The Jungle Book, but is set in a time after it.\u00a0 Kipling proceeded to write more about Mowgli’s adventures in The Second Jungle Book <\/strong><\/em>and here’s the best part – all these books are in public domain so feel free to read ’em before you take a run vacation in Pench.<\/p>\n Both books are a collection of stories – many set in the jungle and many involving Mowgli’s life – but not all.\u00a0 You may be surprised to learn that one of the tales in The Jungle Book is set in Alaska(!) of all places.<\/p>\n In The Rukh (1893)\u00a0 – read online<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Rudyard Kipling first wrote about Mowgli, not in The Jungle Book but in a short story titled In The Rukh.\u00a0\u00a0It, too, is set in Seoni in the rukh meaning (meaning jungle),\u00a0 and tells the tale of a forest ranger who comes across Mowgli and offers him a job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2529,"featured_media":8584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114,509,542],"tags":[547,549,543,548],"yoast_head":"\n
\nThe Jungle Book(1894)\u00a0–\u00a0read online<\/a>\u00a0or at Amazon<\/a>
\nThe Second Jungle Book(1895)\u00a0–\u00a0read online<\/a>\u00a0or at Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n