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Finally we find evidence of my grandfather Bhanu Banerjee playing for the Greers in 1944.
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Calcutta's rich history, there were enough Armenians here to form multiple sports team as late as 1945.
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This was very interesting. In 1944, Goebbels apparently gave this propaganda broadcast of a German air raid on Calcutta which never happened !!
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Who the blazes was this guy !!! No idea
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This hit the front page at least in 1942
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The colonies pretty much paid for a war which wasn't theirs to fight - a war declared in their name without their consent. And to give a lift to their servile natures, these articles used to appear in papers.
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A Snippet from a 1942 paper, relegated to page 9
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Divide et Impera. Even in Sport. Th British created the current disunity between the religions after 1857. Hindu and Muslim teams playing each other. Thankfully this is bizzarre today.
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Going through old articles of the Statesman, this piece from 1942 symbolizes the worst attitudes of the times. Unbelievable today that this language found its way into the press.
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A remarkable tree
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This building has seen it all.
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St Johns Church
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The Tomb of Lord Brabourne. He ruled Bengal at the height of colonial excess.
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A tomb of someone who was obviously wealthy
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A very interesting life of a lady, detailing her multiple marriages.
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Interesting to see a tombstone from the early 18th century. The English were not yet colonizing. They were still traders, and integrated with the native populace, as is evidence from the Persian writing on a British tombstone !
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Finally, we reach the tombstone of Job Charnock. This dates back from 1692. Charnock founded the modern city of Calcutta in 1690.
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And the tombs get older as we approach the part of the compound which is much older than the church - an old graveyard. This grave is from 1757, when the US was still a colony, and the year the English defeated the French in the battle of Plassey.
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Exaggerated stuff to propagate the heroism of the colonials
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Monument to the Black Hole of Calcutta
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Pretty much unchanged for centuries. One of the oldest colonial buildings in India.
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The White Mughal, from Dalrymple's novel.
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Angels in the church
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A rather unorthodox portrait of Jesus
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Another ornate epitaph
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The Stained Glass painting inside St Johns.
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A painting of the Last Supper by Johann Zoffany. Quite a controversial painting, as he used real people (who were alive at the time) as models for all the characters.
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Bust of Lord Minto. Famous for being made notorious to Indian history students for his Morley-Minto reforms.
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A bust of Cornawallis, who came here to consecrate this church in 1787, that's probably after he was sent here from America and before he was sent down to Mysore.
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Strange epitaphs from a different age inside the church
