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Grave fears for India burial site
A team of Scottish heritage experts will fly out to India this weekend to help save a historic graveyard.
The Scottish Cemetery of Kolkata, the last resting place of up to 1,600 people, has become overgrown and many of the graves have been damaged.
Conservationists hope to restore the site, which lies in a densely-populated part of Calcutta.
Economist James Wilson - who introduced income tax and paper currency to India - is said to be buried there...............
Full story at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7710435.stm
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