The Barrack-Room Ballads are a series of songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling, dealing with the late-Victorian British Army and mostly written in a vernacular dialect. The series contains some of Kipling's best-known works, including the poems "Gunga Din", "Tommy", "Mandalay", and "Danny Deever", helping consolidate his early fame as a poet.
First (1892) edition of Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses (publ. Methuen)
Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British India, which inspired much of his work.
Kipling in 1895
Malabar Point, Bombay, 1865
English Heritage blue plaque marking Kipling's time in Southsea, Portsmouth
Lahore Railway Station in the 1880s