From the article, it appears more like the local body in charge of the house is pandering to political correctness.
I doubt India has a problem with its British-era history, as their whole government and bureaucracy was voluntarily modelled after the British parliament, (although in conjunction with the American constitution), and ratified by the local population, two years after the British left - in 1950 or so. Not just that, the first Governor-General of India was a British official, for two years or so after independence.
I wouldn't say pandering to it...more like reluctantly giving in to it.
The saddest thing of all is that Kipling is not a bad author! He doesn’t disparage India or Indian heritage at all. Look at his beloved Jungle Book. And “White Man’s Burden”, is a very melancholy piece. I know academia loves to take potshots at the work as an unmitigated jingoistic work, but that’s hardly the case.
“Take up the White Man’s burden—
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard—
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:—
“Why brought he from our bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”
He calls out this bullshit, no doubt he’d find it humorous how India ‘remembers’ him.