In this Kipling work, the title orphan's father was a sergeant in an Irish regiment in the Punjab
[DOC] [TLE] Young Mister O'Hara: Irish Identity in Kim [PAR] Oct 29, 2010 ... imaginary Irish regiment, which means that Kim is by birth a member of a group 
Kipling calls ... Kipling chose to make Kim the son of an Irish sergeant, not an ... 
reinforces Hubels interpretation of Kim as a working-class protagonist, created 
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