World History

In 1867, a group of hunters prowling the Indian jungle of Uttar Pradesh spotted a wolf den and cautiously began to approach it. But, to their shock, they found that one member of the pack was a little boy of about six years old. The hunters decided to take the child away, smoking the pack out of the cave and killing the mother wolf in the process. They named the boy Dina Sanichar and brought him to a nearby orphanage in hopes of civilizing him.

But Sanichar could never be civilized. The boy continued to walk on all fours while eating only raw meat and even chewing on bones just to sharpen his teeth. Meanwhile, he communicated solely in wolf-like grunts and howls, and never learned a human language. Eventually, Sanichar's story inspired one of the most enduring works of Western literature, Rudyard Kipling's "The Jungle Book" — though the real story is even more unusual than the novel could ever capture. Learn the tragic story of the real-life Mowgli who inspired "The Jungle Book": https://bit.ly/3iplZjA