04-01-2005, 03:55 AM
Victorian Values: Death and Dying in Victorian India
David Arnold
Attitudes to Death and Dying in India
http://www.fathom.com/course/10701057/session2.html
In the 50 or so years before Victoria's accession, Europeans in India seemed to be haunted by visions of their own mortality. In a sense this reflected the high levels of sickness and mortality among Europeans of all ages and classes, but it also expressed a sense of the collective vulnerability of the white population and its feeling of exile in an alien land. Maria Graham, one of the most discerning observers of India in the opening years of the nineteenth century, captured this mood in her comments on the English burying ground in Calcutta, the extensive Park Street cemetery, in 1809, barely 40 years after it had first opened:
David Arnold
Attitudes to Death and Dying in India
http://www.fathom.com/course/10701057/session2.html
In the 50 or so years before Victoria's accession, Europeans in India seemed to be haunted by visions of their own mortality. In a sense this reflected the high levels of sickness and mortality among Europeans of all ages and classes, but it also expressed a sense of the collective vulnerability of the white population and its feeling of exile in an alien land. Maria Graham, one of the most discerning observers of India in the opening years of the nineteenth century, captured this mood in her comments on the English burying ground in Calcutta, the extensive Park Street cemetery, in 1809, barely 40 years after it had first opened: