Under Indian skies, it is a corner of Kolkata that remains forever Scotland: a sprawling Victorian monument to those who sought a new life under the British Raj. Within the grounds of the Scottish ...

The Scottish Cemetery near Mallickbazar has been awarded the heritage plaque by the Calcutta Scottish Heritage Trust and Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (Intach). More such ...

Plans are afoot to turn the Scottish cemetery on Karaya Road into an active burial ground. In the past two years, three new burials have taken place. The cemetery, established in 1820, has 1,809 ...

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In a typically frenetic corner of Calcutta, amid the palm trees, the traffic and the poverty, lie more than 3,000 graves of Scots men, women and children who left Scotland for India during the 18th ...

Treasures lie hidden in the Scottish Cemetery, under the mess of weeds, vines and crumbling tombstones. Treasures that bind Bengal to the Scottish highlands. A little piece of Scotland in India, a ...

An ancient stone carving depicting a Scottish warrior at what is believed to have been a "cemetery of the elite" was potentially created to "invoke supernatural protection." The stone was discovered ...

Powerful storms on the Orkney Islands in the far north of Scotland recently exposed ancient human bones in a Pictish and Viking cemetery dating to almost 1,500 years ago. Volunteers are piling ...

Writing in the Financial Times earlier this week, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen observed that the most startling aspect of India’s response to the coronavirus epidemic has been a ...