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

Thanks for posting this, Harshoo. It so happens that one of my grandfather's cousins was buried in Nicholson Cemetery in 1909, of cholera. According to one of my family's genealogists, Harry Walter Barlow's grave was #800F in Pukka Plot 15#25, and his MI was recorded in "St James Burial Register" - whatever that is. He was a retired British Army Officer, employed by the Maharajah of Sirmoor. I'm not likely to get over to Delhi any time soon, but if any India Lister is there, would he or she kindly have a look around for me? Thanks very much. Gordon Barlow (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-idUSBREA1D00720 140214> http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/14/us-india-cemetery-idUSBREA1D007201 40214 ---- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar