Park Street Cemetery

Park Street cemetery - where all good Britons came to die. A quiet, walled domain with grass covered avenues that lead between Banyan trees and moss covered tombs, this cemetery houses the memorials of the British who came to India from the 1600s onwards to seek their fortunes with the East India company or preserve the law and order of the Royal British monarchy. Susceptible to the illnesses of a foreign environment, one in three British citizens never left their temporary home in Calcutta. Peaceful, albeit mosquito infested, the cemetery is one of the few places in Calcutta that still evokes a strong sense of the British Raj.