tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post8448104022949684366..comments2024-03-24T12:54:16.636+05:30Comments on Calicut Heritage: On a Grave Digging Mission - again!Premchandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12413182610858952040noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-30281074941545901572017-06-26T15:25:36.432+05:302017-06-26T15:25:36.432+05:30If I visit India, especially south India definitel...If I visit India, especially south India definitely I will visit this place. <a href="http://granitememorials.ie" rel="nofollow">Memorial Plaques</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13461744006594514987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-88497843601625726032015-03-19T19:49:38.755+05:302015-03-19T19:49:38.755+05:30THank you, Dr. Roberts for your comments. We are d...THank you, Dr. Roberts for your comments. We are delighted to know that SIRA is conducting a survey of monuments. We at Calicut Heritage will be glad to assist you in all ways possible. There is a rich collection of abandoned tombstones in the Anglican Church in Calicut which is a vibrant source of colonial history. There are many other stray monuments in and around Calicut. Please feel free to Calicut Heritage Forumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15493344638807977946noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-34051720332658908802015-03-18T00:25:28.770+05:302015-03-18T00:25:28.770+05:30I realize that 6 years have passed since this dial...I realize that 6 years have passed since this dialogue. I am the founder of SIRA (South India Research Associates) and we are conducting a survey of all these monuments from the colonial era beginning in 1498 for all of Kerala that will be published this year. It's not merely a matter of mutual cultural respect and commoners - the history of Malabar is written upon these stones. Anjengo isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-65258509479556400582009-01-25T17:52:00.000+05:302009-01-25T17:52:00.000+05:30I appreciate the tenacity of the group who went in...I appreciate the tenacity of the group who went in search of the grave. The search has revealed yet another part of the History of common English people who had come to India facing many a perils. <BR/>No doubt, the attitude of the authorities in neglecting the heritage resulting in its near extinction is most condemnable. At the same time can we find fault with them? <BR/>History for most of us CKMadhusudanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02318966583758212811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-87323240038321624122009-01-25T13:26:00.000+05:302009-01-25T13:26:00.000+05:30Yup, heritage conservation in India is a bit of a ...Yup, heritage conservation in India is a bit of a mess. You might find my post on this subject interesting.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="url" REL="nofollow">http://harinair.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/the-national-trust-of-india</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-47689618039993163892009-01-13T02:36:00.000+05:302009-01-13T02:36:00.000+05:30Thank you very much for going to find these graves...Thank you very much for going to find these graves, and for bringing them to peoples attention.<BR/><BR/>I can understand that these graves must seem to most people in India to be an irrelevance, but to many of us, they are direct links to our heritage and past.<BR/><BR/>Your kind attention is much appreciated.Nick Balmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12730750075841601992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-22881237317704293112009-01-07T06:43:00.000+05:302009-01-07T06:43:00.000+05:30Many thanks, Roy, for your account. Thanks to you ...Many thanks, Roy, for your account. Thanks to you for bringing out the Brabourn stone. It is believed that other unnamed tombstone next to Deborah's is apparently that of John Torlepe who was resident of Anjengo and died in 1777 (Anjengo having been reduced to a residency in 1776)Calicut Heritage Forumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760552324718923006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-58296040726869050272009-01-06T19:40:00.000+05:302009-01-06T19:40:00.000+05:30This interesting article on Anjengo graves cased m...This interesting article on Anjengo graves cased me to look out a note I made on a visit to Anjengo in 2005:<BR/><BR/>The fort was under the control of the Archaeological Survey of India and was well maintained. Their man in charge, Mr Paramashivan, was a genial Tamil Hindu who felt marooned in the Catholic town. He took me outside. In a railed enclosure beneath the wall there were two Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10354543822192318687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-47419831928417873322009-01-04T07:13:00.000+05:302009-01-04T07:13:00.000+05:30Thank you, Maddy, for your very perceptive commmen...Thank you, Maddy, for your very perceptive commment.One had not thought from that point of view. At the same time, one cannot but be a bit cynical of the drama that goes on in the name of bringing the Indian dead home. In most cases, it is the vote of the Indian living that eggs the politician on to arrange for this. Beyond nationality, it is our duty to respect the dead and that is part of humanCalicut Heritage Forumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14760552324718923006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-65243632129265859252009-01-03T21:43:00.000+05:302009-01-03T21:43:00.000+05:30One other thing we break by such acts is trust - l...One other thing we break by such acts is trust - look at it this way. if an Indian dies outside India, we do our best to get that body back to where he belonged and then do the funeral pyres. if an Englishman has been buried in India, a certain amount of trust had been placed by the family in our land and its people to 'allow the soul to rest in peace'.Sad state of events...to say the least.Maddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-86060493752568883032009-01-02T11:41:00.000+05:302009-01-02T11:41:00.000+05:30Issue of Graves have become very grave Vandalisi...Issue of Graves have become very grave Vandalising graves is heaping insult on our culture and the souls of the departed souls. We as a nation should improve the “Sense Of History”. Can any thing be done about it ?Premnath.T.Murkothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04899555419501714340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842185206290989130.post-66904744803061449912009-01-01T21:50:00.000+05:302009-01-01T21:50:00.000+05:30While I can understand the disregard shown to tomb...While I can understand the disregard shown to tombs by these callous government babus I wonder why they do not do these things in a proper way. At least they should show some consideration to that little history which could have been preserved. Uprooting tombstones is not the way to go about development. But well, in a way I guess it has happened everywhere.Maddyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18163804773843409980noreply@blogger.com