Conferences
29 May 2018–29 May 2019, India
INDIAN GRAVESTONE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT
We at the Families in British India Society (FIBIS) have always been interested in cemeteries as part of our collection of data of use to a family historian. We know that the condition of Indian graveyards will continue to decline through the effects of time, neglect and damage and so we have commissioned a photographer based in India to visit cemeteries, photograph all gravestones which still contained a legible inscription, and send us digital copies. These are now being transcribed and the information loaded on our website www.fibis.org. Anyone can access this through our search facility and we can also make available copies of the gravestone photos for a small fee.
The very fact that an organisation from the UK is taking an interest in Indian cemeteries is encouraging others on the ground to provide photographs and our involvement has stimulated clearance work in cemeteries to make graves more accessible.
FIBIS will be very happy to receive any current photographs of individual gravestones from the Indian sub-continent—please send to [email protected]. Over time we hope we can expand this photographic collection as, regrettably, a photographic record will soon be all that remains as graves deteriorate further.
