Dutch Cemetery, Chinsurah
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The Dutch Cemetery () of
Chinsurah Hugli-Chuchura (), also known by its former names Chinsurah or Hooghly-Chinsurah, is a city of Hooghly district and the district headquarters of Hooghly division in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the densely populated citie ...
was constructed on the order of the director of the
Dutch East India Company The United East India Company ( ; VOC ), commonly known as the Dutch East India Company, was a chartered company, chartered trading company and one of the first joint-stock companies in the world. Established on 20 March 1602 by the States Ge ...
in
Bengal Bengal ( ) is a Historical geography, historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the Eastern South Asia, eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal. The region of Benga ...
. The cemetery and all its graves are now maintained and
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under the protection of ancient monuments and archaeological sites and remains of national importance.


Notable people buried

* Charles Cameron, Scottish army officer * Daniel Anthony Overbeek, the last resident of Dutch Bengal


References

{{Commons category, Dutch Cemetery in Chinsurah Cemeteries in India Protestant Reformed cemeteries Dutch Bengal