KMC awaits ‘hard evidence' before declaring ‘Nandakumar hanging well' a heritage site
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Kolkata: The Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) is waiting for "hard evidence" to declare the Nandakumar hanging well at Hastings a heritage site. The civic body has repeatedly received proposals from historians and civil groups regarding its recognition as a heritage site in the city.
The KMC's heritage department officials said they cannot start any work on it due to the lack of hard evidence ascertaining that Maharaja Nandakumar, a tax collector of the erstwhile East India Company, was hanged at the same spot on Aug 5, 1775.
After the Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar-linked house at Kailash Bose Street, where the first Hindu remarriage took place in 1856, this is the second historical place that is yet to get the proposed heritage tag for want of "concrete evidence".
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"Historians have considered the execution of Maharaja Nandakumar to be the first judicial murder by the British in India. But we have not come by any hard evidence, like an official document, which would establish that it was the same execution spot and that the well was dug up for the purpose of his hanging," said a senior KMC official.
The civic body's focus on hard evidence to determine heritage status comes in the wake of a legal dispute over Michael Madhusudan Dutt's ancestral house on Karl Marx Sarani.
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"The matter is in HC, which has asked for concrete evidence to ascertain that the poet was born or used to dwell in the house. We are waiting for the next hearing in the division bench. If the court allows us to retain its heritage status, depending on historians' claims, we can give the heritage status to other buildings or sites proposed," said the official.
Ahead of Nandakumar's 250th hanging anniversary this year, historians urged the KMC to restore the well that has been lying in neglect for many years. Sanatan Halder, chairman of a civil group, Young Kolkata, said, "This historical site, that has been in a crumbling state, needs to be protected. That Maharaja Nandakumar was executed there has been known for many years, and it is there in history. So, we have been requesting the civic body for its heritage recognition.
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