south park street cemetery

The Park Street Cemetery was one of the earliest non-church cemeteries in the world, and probably the largest Christian cemetery outside Europe and America in the 19th century. 

South Park Street Cemetery is located on Mother Teresa Sarani, Kolkata, India. The road used  to be called Park Street, and prior to that Burial Ground Road.

 Opened in 1767 on what was previously a marshy area,

The cemetery was in use until about 1830 and is now a heritage site, protected by the Archaeological Survey of India  (ASI).

The cemetery was opened to relieve the pressure on the old burial ground in the heart of the city. The road leading to the cemetery came to be known as the Burial Ground Road but was subsequently renamed Park Street after the park around Vansittart's garden house. By the year 1785 the burial ground had been extended on the northern side of Park Street and by 1840 a vast new cemetery was opened to the east of the Lower Circular Road. The Europeans started to disuse it in the year 1790. It has been confirmed by a marble plaque at the gate which reads "South Park Street, Opened:1767, Closed:1790".   

Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831) was an Indian poet and assistant headmaster of Hindu College, kolkata, a radical thinker and one of the first Indian educators to disseminate Western learning and science among the young men of Bengal
Long after Derozio's death (of cholera), his influence lived on among his former students, who came to be known asYoung Bengal and many of whom became prominent in Social Reform, Law, and Journalism.
Derozio died at an early age of 22 on 26th December 1831 in Calcutta due to cholera.

 His body was buried in South Park Cemetery of Kolkata.