| Preface | p. vii |
| The Text of Kim | p. 1 |
| Backgrounds | p. 241 |
| Map: North India 1857 | p. 243 |
| Map: Modern India | p. 244 |
| Map: The Grand Trunk Road | p. 245 |
| Short Stories | |
| Lispeth | p. 247 |
| To Be Filed for Reference | p. 252 |
| Poems | |
| Recessional | p. 259 |
| The White Man's Burden | p. 260 |
| Letters | |
| To Margaret Burne-Jones, [27] September 1885 | p. 263 |
| To Margaret Burne-Jones, 28 November 1885-11 January 1886 | p. 266 |
| To E. K. Robinson, 30 April 1886 | p. 270 |
| To Margaret Burne-Jones, 3 May-24 June 1886 | p. 271 |
| Autobiography and Biography | |
| From Something of Myself
Rudyard Kipling | p. 273 |
| [The Origins of Kim]
Charles Carrington | p. 278 |
| Contemporary Reviews | |
| [A 'New Kipling']
J. H. Millar | p. 283 |
| [Mr. Kipling's Enthralling New Novel]
William Morton Payne | p. 284 |
| Rudyard Kipling's Kim
Arthur Bartlett Maurice | p. 285 |
| The Nobel Prize for Literature, 1907 | p. 290 |
| Historical Context | |
| Kim in Historical Context
Blair B. Kling | p. 297 |
| [Recovering the Connection Between Kim and Contemporary History]
Ann Parry | p. 309 |
| Criticism | p. 321 |
| Kipling's Place in the History of Ideas
Noel Annan | p. 323 |
| The Pleasures of Kim
Irving Howe | p. 328 |
| [Kim as Imperialist Novel]
Edward W. Said | p. 337 |
| [The Survey of India]
Ian Baucom | p. 351 |
| Kim, Invasion-Scare Literature, and the Russian Threat to British India
A. Michael Matin | p. 358 |
| [Kipling's Richest Dream]
John A. McClure | p. 375 |
| [Storytelling in Kim]
Michael Hollington | p. 384 |
| [Kim, the Myth of the Nation, and National Identity]
Parama Roy | p. 393 |
| [Kim's Colonial Education]
Sara Suleri | p. 406 |
| Kim and Orientalism
Patrick Williams | p. 410 |
| Kim, or How to Be Young, Male, and British in Kipling's India
Suvir Kaul | p. 426 |
| [The Ending of Kim]
Mark Kinkead-Weekes | p. 436 |
| What Happens at the End of Kim?
Zohreh T. Sullivan | p. 441 |
| Rudyard Kipling: A Chronology | p. 453 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 457 |