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‘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.
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Gunga Din is a poem written by an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist, Rudyard Kipling in 1890. This poem highlights the cruel colonialism in the subcontinent. Moreover, it highlights the prejudices of Europeans against orients.
The poem is a rhyming narrative from the point of view of a British soldier in India. Its eponymous character is an Indian water-carrier (a bhishti) who, after the narrator is wounded in battle, saves his life, only to be shot and killed.
Jul 12, 2023 · Rudyard Kipling s Gunga Din narrates the story of a heroic Indian water bearer with the same name who serves in the British Indian Army during the colonial era in India. The poem, published in 1892, is narrated by a British soldier who reflects on his experiences with Gunga Din.
The poem's speaker describes Gunga Din in a very racist way: the native comes from a "blackfaced crew" and is a "squidgy-nosed old idol". He is a "'eathen" who is simple and stupid – a "good, grinnin', gruntin' Gunga Din".
Gunga Din. You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.
Major Themes in “Gunga Din”: Racial slurs, British superiority, and equal treatment for the locals during colonialism are major themes of the poem “Gunga Din.” Although it seems that the major intention of Kipling is to extol some Indian, a figure from his birthplace, yet his superior British sense does not seem to stay confined to words.
