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	'''Nimtala Crematorium''' is located on Beadon Street, [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. The [[crematorium]] ~~is also~~ historically known as Nimtala burning ghat, or simply Nimtala ghat.<ref name="Chatterji1968">{{cite book\|author=Sudhamoy Chatterji\|title=Death and after\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-UtAAAAYAAJ\|accessdate=16 December 2012\|year=1968\|publisher=Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay\|page=110}}</ref>		'''Nimtala Crematorium''' is located on Beadon Street, [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. The [[crematorium]] has been historically known as Nimtala burning ghat, or simply Nimtala ghat.<ref name="Chatterji1968">{{cite book\|author=Sudhamoy Chatterji\|title=Death and after\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-UtAAAAYAAJ\|accessdate=16 December 2012\|year=1968\|publisher=Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay\|page=110}}</ref><ref>{{cite news \|date=21 June 2022 \|title=Nimtala Burning Ghat: কানে আসে কিছু কান্না, আর্তনাদ! নিমতলা শ্মশান আজও হিম শ্রোত আনে শহরবাসীর শরীরে \|work=The Bengali Chronicle \|url=https://thebengalichronicle.com/horror-experience-nimtala-burning-chat/ \|access-date=10 August 2022 \|language=bn \|archive-date=10 August 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220810090927/https://thebengalichronicle.com/horror-experience-nimtala-burning-chat/ \|url-status=dead }}</ref> Located on the banks of the [[Hooghly River\|Hoogly]] ([[Ganga]]) just like the [[Manikarnika Ghat]] in [[Varanasi]]; it is considered to be one of the holiest burning ghats in the country where the soul is said to attain [[moksha]], ie. breaking the cycle of birth and death. So people across the country comes here for the cremation of their loved ones. It is also one of the largest burning ghats in India.

	== History ==		== History ==
	The burning ghat was constructed in ~~1827~~. In 2010 the central government of India upgraded the crematorium at a cost of INR ₹140 million (US$2.0 million). The Bengali polymath [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was cremated here in 1941. The Rabindranath Tagore Memorial in the crematorium compound was beautified as part of the 2010 project.<ref name="Rs 14cr upgrade for Nimtala burning ghat">{{cite news\|title=Rs 14cr upgrade for Nimtala burning ghat\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100309/jsp/calcutta/story_12189585.jsp\|accessdate=16 December 2012\|newspaper=The Telegraph Calcutta}}</ref>		The first building of this burning ghat came up in 1717, but cremation was done almost 2000 years before that time. The present structure of the ghat was created by [[Rajchandra Das\|Babu Rajchandra Das]], for the citizens of [[Calcutta]]. Before the creation of [[Keoratola crematorium]], it used to be the sole crematorium in the whole city. Feeling the need of the citizens Rajchandra constructed the ghat in 1817 after his father, [[Preetoram Marh\|Babu Pritaram Marh's]] demise.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Ghosha \|first=Lokanātha \|url=http://archive.org/details/modernhistoryin00unkngoog \|title=The modern history of the Indian chiefs, rajas, Zamindars, &c. \|date=1879 \|publisher=Calcutta : J.N. Ghose \|others=Oxford University \|pages=73}}</ref>

			In 2010 the central government of India upgraded the crematorium at a cost of INR ₹140 million (US$2.0 million). The last rites and cremation of "The Levitating Saint" Bhaduri Mahasaya - Maharshi Nagendranath Bhaduri were performed at Nimtala Burning Ghat in Kolkata on November 2, 1926.The Bengali polymath [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was cremated here in 1941. The Rabindranath Tagore Memorial in the crematorium compound was beautified as part of the 2010 project.<ref name="Rs 14cr upgrade for Nimtala burning ghat">{{cite news\|title=Rs 14cr upgrade for Nimtala burning ghat\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100309/jsp/calcutta/story_12189585.jsp\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100313231753/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100309/jsp/calcutta/story_12189585.jsp\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=13 March 2010\|accessdate=16 December 2012\|newspaper=The Telegraph Calcutta}}</ref>

	The ghat has also been represented in popular literature. It plays a significant part in the plot of the [[2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards\|2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]] winning Malayalam novel, [[Aarachaar]], by [[K. R. Meera]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202013_final.pdf \|title=2013-ലെ കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡുകൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു \|publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] \|date=December 2014 \|accessdate=24 January 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613132951/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202013_final.pdf \|archive-date=13 June 2018 \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Sahitya-Akademi-award-for-Meeras-Aarachar/articleshow/45583043.cms\|title=Sahitya Akademi award for Meera's 'Aarachar'\|newspaper=The Times of India\|date=20 December 2014\|accessdate=24 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/books/story/20140811-abhirami-sriram-kr-meera-hangwoman-review-phanibhushan-mullick-804801-2014-08-01\|title=Abhirami Sriram reviews Hangwoman: Everybody loves a good hanging by KR Meera\|work=India Today\|accessdate=24 January 2019}}</ref>		The ghat has also been represented in popular literature. It plays a significant part in the plot of the [[2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards\|2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]] winning Malayalam novel, [[Aarachaar]], by [[K. R. Meera]].<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202013_final.pdf \|title=2013-ലെ കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡുകൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു \|publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] \|date=December 2014 \|accessdate=24 January 2019 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613132951/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202013_final.pdf \|archive-date=13 June 2018 \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news\|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Sahitya-Akademi-award-for-Meeras-Aarachar/articleshow/45583043.cms\|title=Sahitya Akademi award for Meera's 'Aarachar'\|newspaper=The Times of India\|date=20 December 2014\|accessdate=24 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/books/story/20140811-abhirami-sriram-kr-meera-hangwoman-review-phanibhushan-mullick-804801-2014-08-01\|title=Abhirami Sriram reviews Hangwoman: Everybody loves a good hanging by KR Meera\|work=India Today\|accessdate=24 January 2019}}</ref>

	== Notable funerals ==		== Notable funerals ==
	* [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]]		* [[Rani Rashmoni]]
	* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]		* [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]]
			* [[Rajchandra Das]]
			* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
			* [[Mutty Lall Seal]]
	* [[Rajendralal Mitra]]		* [[Rajendralal Mitra]]
	* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]]		* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]]
			* [[Samaresh Majumdar]]
			* [[Sadhan Pande]]
			* [[Gurudas Banerjee\|Sir Gurudas Banerjee]]
			* [[Preetoram Marh\|Babu Preetoram Marh]]
			* [[Debendranath Tagore]]
			* [[Kadambari Devi]]
			* [[Kadambini Ganguly]]
			* [[Birendra Krishna Bhadra]]
			* [[Bani Kumar]]
			* [[Binodini Dasi\|Noti Binodini]]
			* [[Dwijen Mukhopadhyay]]
			* [[Ramdulal Sarkar]]
			* [[Subhas Chakraborty]]

	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Kashi Mitra Ghat crematorium]]
	* [[Keoratola crematorium]]		* [[Keoratola crematorium]]

	== References ==		== References ==
	{{reflist}}		{{reflist}}
			7) বিদ্যাসাগর ও অবিদ্যাসাগর-অসিত দাস(কচিপাতা প্রকাশন)

	==External links==		==External links==
	* {{Commons category-inline\|Nimtala ~~burning ghat~~}}		* {{Commons category-inline\|Nimtala Burning Ghat}}

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	== Notable funerals ==		== Notable funerals ==
	* [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]]		* [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]]
			* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]
			* [[Rajendralal Mitra]]
	* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]]		* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]]
	* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]

	== See also ==		== See also ==
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			==External links==
			* {{Commons category-inline\|Nimtala burning ghat}}

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'''Nimtala Crematorium''' is located on Beadon Street, [[Kolkata]], [[India]]. The [[crematorium]] is also historically known as Nimtala burning ghat, or simply Nimtala ghat.<ref name="Chatterji1968">{{cite book|author=Sudhamoy Chatterji|title=Death and after|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y-UtAAAAYAAJ|accessdate=16 December 2012|year=1968|publisher=Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay|page=110}}</ref>

== History ==
The burning ghat was constructed in 1827. In 2010 the central government of India upgraded the crematorium at a cost of INR ₹140 million (US$2.0 million). The Bengali polymath [[Rabindranath Tagore]] was cremated here in 1941. The Rabindranath Tagore Memorial in the crematorium compound was beautified as part of the 2010 project.<ref name="Rs 14cr upgrade for Nimtala burning ghat">{{cite news|title=Rs 14cr upgrade for Nimtala burning ghat|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100309/jsp/calcutta/story_12189585.jsp|accessdate=16 December 2012|newspaper=The Telegraph Calcutta}}</ref>

The ghat has also been represented in popular literature. It plays a significant part in the plot of the [[2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Awards|2013 Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award]] winning Malayalam novel, [[Aarachaar]], by [[K. R. Meera]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202013_final.pdf |title=2013-ലെ കേരള സാഹിത്യ അക്കാദമി അവാർഡുകൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചു |publisher=[[Kerala Sahitya Akademi]] |date=December 2014 |accessdate=24 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613132951/http://www.keralasahityaakademi.org/pdf/Akademi%20Award%20-%202013_final.pdf |archive-date=13 June 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/Sahitya-Akademi-award-for-Meeras-Aarachar/articleshow/45583043.cms|title=Sahitya Akademi award for Meera's 'Aarachar'|newspaper=The Times of India|date=20 December 2014|accessdate=24 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/books/story/20140811-abhirami-sriram-kr-meera-hangwoman-review-phanibhushan-mullick-804801-2014-08-01|title=Abhirami Sriram reviews Hangwoman: Everybody loves a good hanging by KR Meera|work=India Today|accessdate=24 January 2019}}</ref>

== Notable funerals ==
* [[Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar]]
* [[Manik Bandopadhyay]]
* [[Rabindranath Tagore]]

== See also ==
* [[Kashi Mitra Ghat crematorium]]
* [[Keoratola crematorium]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Kolkata topics}}

[[Category:Crematoria in India]]
[[Category:Culture of Kolkata]]
[[Category:Death in India]]

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