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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, which takes place in colonial India, and is about a mongoose defending a white settler family against evil indigenous cobras. The mongoose kills all 3 snakes and squashes the mother cobra's eggs, then a bird sings about how that is good actually, and all the snakes never dare enter the white colonist family's garden again, the end
this definitely had no implications from the author whatsoever
The short story is part of The Jungle Book. He's universally hated in India
as he should be
Good one
Riki Tiki Tavi by Donovan is an absolute banger though.
it's pretty hilarious how he depicts the big white man as this godlike thing with no upper body (we only ever see his legs and his gun, pretty much)