These obelisks and plaques that bear these epitaphs are a reminder of the early days of Calcutta, which was then known all over the world as ‘The City of Palaces’.Deepanjan Ghosh is a broadcast professional from Kolkata, India. All around are the crumbling graves with cracked tombstones, faded with time, surrounded by yellow moss and falling leaves of the trees around, somehow surviving in an eerie silence. With the effort proving successful, Bogle became British India’s first ambassador to Tibet. On the global hit list of death, I would rank South Park Street Cemetery among the top three.Its popularity with film buffs has grown since the 2010 Bengali movie As for myself, I chew on a clove of garlic as I enter the cemetery, well aware of the rumours of haunting, how visitors experience spells of breathlessness and dizziness, and spot weird shapes peeking over their shoulders in their selfies.One tomb, it is claimed, occasionally bleeds—though sadly not while I am visiting.

Today it looks really old, colonial and mysterious. The death of one gentleman, for instance, was brought about through “an inordinate use of the hokkah".Eventually, I spot the tomb of someone who lived about as long as I have done, a woman by the name of Lady Monson, dead at the age of 49. The cemetery is an easy walk from nearby St. Xavier's College or the Mother House (HQ of Missionaries of Charity). He preached them the ideas of social changes, liberalism, equality, freedom. The place is isolated from the city crowd. The Europeans were then using Calcutta’s first British burial ground, located where St John’s Church on Council House Street stands today.Concerned that the sight of funeral processions winding their way through the town several times a week might the residents’ erode morale, and that opening a new cemetery in the town could be a health hazard, the Board of Governors of the East India Company decided on a site that was far from human habitation.In August 1767, the President of the Company told the Board that a new burial ground Now smack in the middle of Kolkata but walled off from the bustle and chaos outside, this 8-acre quiet and leafy haven holds the mortal remains of 1,600-odd British men, women and children. Februar 2012 auf … Die deutschsprachige Erstausstrahlung lief vom 9. He also acquired an Indian wife. The Dennison family is resting under the tomb. However, with so much history - it's the resting place for important politicians, Civil War soldiers, as well as graves of unknown Yellow Fever Epidemic victims - it's not hard to believe there's something supernatural happening there. Bogle was sent by Hastings in the summer of 1774 to make contact with the Panchen Lama, in the hope that trade links could be opened up with Tibet and China. A central dome in “Panchyatana Style”  with miniature replicas of Orissan  “Rekhadeul” on four sides and a black basalt carving on the front clearly shows a great respect towards the Hindu Community.The Cemetery is the resting place afterlife journey of many popular intellectual people of Kolkata. [circular reference] The cemetery was featured in two episodes during the fifth season of American Horror Story: Hotel. I mean apart from rumours, did anyone had a real life haunted experience ?Well we dont know whether it is rumour or not but we have heard a lot of haunted incidents.Thanks for sharing, before it, I do not know, South Park Street Cemetery is a haunted place, Thanks“Cemetery” … The word itself denotes our final destination where we get disappear in the dust in our eternal sleep leaving all our power, money, fame, friends and family behind us. Filled with colonial graves in the shape of massive pyramids, pavilions, obelisks and urns and each of them hid in themselves real history. FLAPPER GIRL- Jewish Waldheim- Forest Park, Il
It is one the earliest non-church cemeteries in the world. Give your feedback and please give likes and do share if you like the posts. The coffin would be carried on the shoulders of the deceased person’s friends since no hearses had been introduced in the city, and torches would be lit to keep tigers at bay!She suggests that enormous amounts of masonry were piled onto graves, creating gigantic memorials to even the humblest of people, to contain the diseases that so often led to fatalities. PLEASE LIKE OUR VIDEO & SUBSCRIBE OUR CHANNEL FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM - SOHEL216 ON FACEBOOK- SO H EL , AKASH SAHA , ARGHYA DEY SHARE AND COMMENT YOUR COMMENT IS IMPORTANT FOR US. A history buff, a landscape and architecture photographer and blogger, he has has been writing about heritage since 2013. You will find his grave in the cemetery. One of her illustrious admirers was the cavalier littérateur Walter Savage Landor, a close friend of Charles Dickens, best remembered for an elegy to his great love:Book lovers will recall how Amit and Lata, the lovebirds of Vikram Seth’s Furthermore, Dickens’ son is buried nearby. History books capture the bigger picture, but here the epitaphs reveal interesting nuances, some sombre, some mischievous, of the people buried here.