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Rudyard KiplingGunga Din by Rudyard Kipling

‘Gunga Din’ is one of Kipling’s best-known poems. It features two characters, the speaker who is a white British soldier fighting in India, and Gunga Din, an Indian water carrier who is beaten and abused by the soldiers. The poem was published along with poems like ‘Mandalay’ and ‘Danny Deever’ in Barrack-Room Ballads. In this poem, the poet touches on important and controversial themes of perception, race, war, and life/death.

Gunga Din by Rudyard Kipling