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Cemeteries
*[http://www.darjeeling-tourism.com/darj_00002d.htm Darjeeling Old Cemetery] darjeeling-tourism.com (This cemetery is also known as Hill Cart Road Cemetery or Hooker Road cemetery)
**[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=521&s_id=711 Named images of graves at Hill Cart Road cemetery] Fibis database
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150315122011/http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/Ecological-issue/Darjeelings-English-Cemetery.html Darjeeling’s English Cemetery] by Rebecca Bragg with informative comments at the end, November 06, 2009 DarjeelingTimes.com, (now archived), a subsequent article dated [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121012742/http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/opinions/general/231-darjeelings-english-cemetery.html 7 February 2010] (now archived) and also the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160625074459/http://rebeccabragg.com/updated_story_10.html updated information] from her website (now archived) including a Questions and Answer session with a [[BACSA]] representative in July 2010 and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160625053923/http://rebeccabragg.com/cemetery_photos_7.html Cemetery photos], now archived.* Darjeeling New Cemetery. (Singtom Cemetery] Established 1858. A report In the 1980s this cemetery was in a devastated condition, <ref>Sinclair, James. [httphttps://archiverlists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/thhyperkitty/readlist/INDIAindia.rootsweb.com/2007-05thread/15656986/1179823575 Destruction of graves] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List post by James Sinclair] '', 26 August 1998. Retrieved 21 May 2019.</ref>in 2007 mentions that the Singtom cemetery is in but subsequently [[BACSA]] provided a neglected state and gravestones have disappearedsubstantial grant for restoration.<ref>llewellyn-jones, rosie. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb. com/thread/12905364/ Darjeeling Cemetery] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'', 11 February 2000. Retrieved 21 May 2019.</ref>*The Jewish cemetery. The approximate location is mentioned in the comments by Peter J. Karthak on November 8, 2009 in Rebecca Bragg's article above. No records appear to have survived.
*Jalahapar Old Cemetery
*Jalahapar New Cemetery
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