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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Volunteers have placed sandbags along the beach in hopes of preventing further flooding. Amanda Brend / University of the Highlands and Islands A series of storms battering the United Kingdom recently ...

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 ...

A team of heritage experts from Scotland recently visited Kolkata with an aim to restore an old Scottish cemetery, which has been dilapidated with, trees and bushes. Scotland's Simpson and Brown, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...