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There are nearly two million European graves of the colonial period on the subcontinent. (Philip Davies: Splendours of the Raj, 1985) Colonial funerary sites in particular evoke many ambivalent responses. Many there are amongst us who would cast a cold eye on such relics of empire, look disdainfully at the vainglorious ‘ego-trips’ embodied in the towering obelisks and the obituary- epitaphs

etched in marble and stone by a community of expropriators from an alien race, who trickled in as traders and emerged by dint of cunning and force of arms, as masters of an entire subcontinent for 200 years with absolute impunity, imagining (or may be rationalizing?) their incursions to be for ‘the good of the people whom Providence has willed that they should rule’ (as Holmes so piously declares in the Bengal Obituary, 1851)

An arduous process to digitise records of more than 100,000 burials and 20,000 graves has been undertaken the technical guidance of M/s Computax Consultants for four public cemeteries in Kolkata, Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Tollygunge (Russa Road South, First Lane) and Khidderpore (St.Stephen’s “Sailors” Cemetery) and South Park Street Cemetery & also of Bhawanipore so that the foreigners visiting the city to trace their ancestral roots can locate them at the click of a mouse.

“Ah, my sleep, precious sleep.
Which only waits for his touch to vanish
Ah, my closed eyes
That would open their lids only
To the light of his smile
When he stands before me like a dream
Emerging from darkness of sleep.

Let him appear before my sight
As the first of all lights and forms.
The first thrill of joy to my awakening soul
Let it come from his glance.
And let my return to myself be
Immediate return to him.”
Tagore’s Geetanjali

The Hon’ble Governor of West Bengal, Sri Gopal Krishna Gandhi with delegates of M/s Computax Consultants at the presentation of the website at Raj Bhavan on 3rd March , 2009. (seen from the right : Mr Arijit Mitra & Smt Rituparna Mitra , amongst oths.)

Message from REV. Dr. J. Felix Raj .... view details

Mr Arijit Mitra , receiving the Bharat Nav Nirman Ratan Award from Shri Krishnamurti, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, at New Delhi , for excellence in chosen field of activity.

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