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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Christian cemetery in West Bengal, India}}<br />
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| location = Kalikapur, [[Murshidabad]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
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'''Dutch Cemetery''' is a heritage Christian cemetery at Kalikapur, [[Cossimbazar]] in the [[Berhampore (community development block)|Berhampore]] [[Community development blocks in India|CD block]] in the [[Berhampore subdivision]] of [[Murshidabad district]], West Bengal, India.<br />
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==History==<br />
In its hey days [[Murshidabad]] was an active trading post that not only attracted the British but also the Dutch and the Armenians, all of whom settled here in different times.<ref name=dutch>{{cite web | url = https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/explore/story/66552/europe-on-the-ganga |title= Discover Europe on the Ganga River Cruise | publisher = Outlook Traveller, 17 April 2018| accessdate = 20 July 2021}}</ref> The Dutch Cemetery has “47 tombs and obelisks etc. and the oldest being that of Daniel Van der Muyl who died in 1721 AD.”<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.asikolkata.in/murshidabad.aspx# | title = ASI, Kolkata Circle | work = Dutch Cemetery | publisher = Archaeological Survey of India | accessdate = 20 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Pinakpani |title=English: Dutch Cemetery, Cossimbazar in Murshidabad district |date=2025-10-01 |url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dutch_Cemetery,_Cossimbazar_in_Murshidabad_district_03.jpg |access-date=2025-10-04}}</ref> The [[Residency Cemetery, Babulbona|Babulbona Residency Cemetery]], as also the British and Dutch cemeteries in neighbouring Cossimbazar are not really in ship shape, although they are state protected monuments.<ref name=dutch/><br />
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According to the [[Archaeological Survey of India]], as mentioned in the [[List of Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal]] the Dutch Cemetery is an ASI Listed Monument.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://asi.nic.in/alphabetical-list-of-monuments-west-bengal/|title=List of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains of West Bengal – Archaeological Survey of India|publisher= ASI|work= Item no. 113|access-date=20 July 2021}}</ref><br />
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==Gallery==<br />
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File:Dutch Cemetery, Cossimbazar, Berhampore, West Bengal 01.jpg<br />
File:Description of the Dutch Cemetery for tourists.jpg<br />
File:Tomb of Tammerus Canter Visscher in Cossimbazar Dutch cemetery 05.jpg<br />
File:Dutch satyajit sinha.jpg<br />
File:Dutch Cemetery, Cossimbazar in Murshidabad district 19.jpg<br />
File:Dutch Cemetery, Cossimbazar in Murshidabad district 12.jpg<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{Commons category-inline|Dutch Cemetery, Cossimbazar}}<br />
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{{Cemeteries in India}}<br />
{{Murshidabad topics}}<br />
{{Tourist attractions in Murshidabad}}<br />
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[[Category:Protestant Reformed cemeteries]]<br />
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