Darjeeling Past and Present (Part 1)
August 22, 2026
Darjeeling Past and Present: Part 1 (of 2) A long-standing member of BACSA, Celia Brown is particularly concerned about the…
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The winter of 2019-2020 saw the completion of a major project of BACSA in collaboration with the Deccan Heritage Foundation…
The continuing travel restrictions mean there are few visitors’ reports of cemeteries in South Asia and publishers are holding back…
REDISCOVERING THE GRAVE OF LADY SALE Thanks to details and a photograph published in Chowkidar in 1986, Dominic Medley has…
The Scottish Cemetery was laid out in Calcutta (Kolkata) in 1820. It contains 1,600 headstones and monuments and 4,000 burials….
There are a huge number of cemeteries in India bearing witness to the widespread settlement of the British whether civilian…
BACSA’s lecture programme runs between November and June and is presented in association with the South Asia Centre, London School…
BACSA’s 2020 Spring event was to be a visit to the Wallace Collection in London on 14 April to see…
PLANTATION DESPAIR Nostalgia for the Raj often presents a glamorous picture of British life in India before Independence in 1947,…
THE SEARCH FOR COLONEL HEATH `Let me tell you my story,’ began the message from Michael Heath, and it is…