British Cemetery, Chunar is a historic Christian cemetery below Chunar Fort at Chunar, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is one of several burial grounds associated with the former East India Company garrison.
Background Company forces took Chunar Fort after a siege in 1765; an agreement of 20 March 1772 subsequently authorised British troops to garrison it. The fort became an artillery and ammunition depot and later a convalescent establishment for Company soldiers.
History
E. A. H. Blunt's 1911 survey called the site the Old Cemetery below the Fort. Its earliest recorded inscription commemorates Ensign Hugh Stranack Cameron, who died on 21 October 1782. Other memorials include assistant surgeon George Milne (1791), Colonel John White (1795) and Henry Shinks, apothecary of Chunar General Hospital, who died in 1839.
Blunt recorded graves at twelve locations in Chunar. In 2009 BACSA found many monuments dating from 1782 to 1839 still standing in the cemetery below the fort, although some stone had been removed and buildings encroached along two sides.
Protection The Archaeological Survey of India lists the British Cemetery at Chunar as a centrally protected monument. Its Sarnath Circle records protection notifications dated 18 November and 22 December 1920.
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See also Chunar Fort
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