Scottish Govt to Preserve Kolkata’s Scottish Heritage, Magazines - News

Scotland’s new nationalist government has launched a campaign to restore some of India’s finest buildings with hopes of reviving Kolkata’s heritage structures. Attention will first be granted to buildings such as the Duff College, named after Scottish missionary Alexander Duff. Scotland’s culture and external affairs minister Michael Russell told a leading daily that the need to preserve these buildings rose not only from altruism, but because they’re part of Scotland’s heritage and history. He added that these structures were not just India’s heritage, but Scotland’s too. Mr Russel met West Bengal’s Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and signed an agreement for conservation and restoration work.

The buildings to be renovated include the East India Company’s Writers’ Building, Victoria Memorial, Tollygunge Club and the Roxburgh Building, as well as St Andrews Church and the cemetery along Dalhousie Square, which will also be the first sites to be restored in association with the Kolkata Scottish Heritage Trust, established to commemorate and build historic links between Scotland and Kolkata. According to its chairman, Charles Bruce, an extraordinary group of Scots set up institutions here, inspiring the movement of Indian nationalism with Scottish philosophy. The renovations will preserve this heritage for future generations.

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