Gunga Din House, a senior boys’ boarding house at an independent school in Oxford, England, has been renamed over perceived racist connotations.
The fee-paying school, in a letter to alumni, described how the “high ideals of equality, fairness, and human dignity” had prompted the original naming of the senior boys’ quarters by a past headmaster 80 years ago, who took inspiration from the heroic Indian water-carrier named Gunga Din of Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 poem.
