South Park Street Cemetery, is an old, colonial cemetery, opened in 1767 and an oasis of calm, in the centre of Kolkata.
The architectural feature of each tomb in the cemetery, imitates the glory of the British Raj. In ‘City of Dreadful Night’ (1891) – a scathing commentary on colonial Calcutta, Rudyard Kipling, sarcastically writes about the Park Street cemetery, “The tombs are small houses. It is as though we walked down the streets of a town, so tall are they and so closely do they stand – a town shrivelled by fire, and scarred by frost and siege. Men must have been afraid of their friends rising up before the due time that they weighted them with such cruel mounds of masonry.”
