A quiet little British cemetery - a retreat in busy Delhi, which holds its secrets unto itself. When scholars collate India’s history in its comparatively recent past, these individuals who played their various roles, should perhaps, also find a place in the life and events of those times. The cemetery looks well tended and I DO like to see a JHAROO being wielded to sweep a grave! If I had known, I would like to have visited this place. Wishes ~ Sally > > Graves of empire tell of India's troubled past > > NEW DELHI Thu Feb 13, 2014 > > (Reuters) - By the side of a crowded Delhi highway with buses > thundering by and hawkers touting their wares lies a small, walled > cemetery. It holds the graves of hundreds of British citizens and other > foreigners who, for better or worse, played roles in India's colonial > past. Soldiers, missionaries, traders and officials rest here, the cracked > tombstones giving only hints of their lives. > > Despite the peaceful air, the Nicholson Christian Cemetery near the > Kashmere Gate is also testimony to a history of violence. It was > founded after the Indian Mutiny in 1857 and many of its inhabitants > died in that conflict, now seen by some as India's first war for > independence. (snip) > http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-india-cemetery-idUSBREA1D00720140214 > > ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar > > >