Sunday 19 January 2014

History of the Historical Times

There are soul searching topics of knowledge when it comes to history, especially when it is the combination of the history of two deep rooted nations and a link between them. They are India and UK.
I belong to the world’s largest democracy of date and the introduction stone of this historical episode was laid down long before the British Rule in India, when they had discovered the route to India for Trade and Commerce. Born in the then British capital of India, Kolkata, my hometown is adorned with history, geography, literature and art that collaborate very deeply with that in UK.

We have read history in a way that the historians have portrayed it from their point of view. I have seen and analyzed the history of India from my point of view. I would want to do the same if I could get a chance to study in the UK.

The Victoria Memorial hall was built by Lord Curzon in 1906 as a dedication to Queen Victoria. The Angel of Victory that sits on the top of the monument, also sits in the center of Queen's Gardens in front of Buckingham Palace. The architect of the wonderful memorial, Sir William Emerson designed the same in the UK.

It is said that he had come to India and designed the Crawford market in Mumbai and the All Saint’s Cathedral in Allahabad. Emerson studied the architecture of the Taj Mahal to build the Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata for the Queen. Again he implemented Gothic Style to design the architecture of the All Saint’s Church.

In his work of Takhtsingji Hospital and the Nilambagh Palace, he studied the use of Hindu architectural elements in his work.

Further deep rooted are the history of great leaders and administrators and statues commemorates like Hastings, Cornwallis, Clive, Wellesley, and Dalhousie have their work and history both in the UK and India.

Sir Rajendra Nath Mookerjee, another pioneer of engineering had contributed to the history and founded the Martin Co.

Shakespeare and Rabindranath Tagore, Keats and Michael Madhusudan Dutta all are a part of this celebrated history. The St.Paul’s Cathedral which is the seat of the Bishop in London has engraved history in relation to the St. Paul’s Cathedral in Kolkata.

The lists of things are never ending. I could go on and on pouring my dreams and talking about my aspirations. I would walk down the Thames, the West Minster’s Abbey and spend days in the British Museum. Visit the National Gallery in London and the Natural History Museum, The Big Ben and the London Eye. I would want to visit the Buckingham Palace, Windsor Palace along with the other monuments of history.

It would be a dream come true to be able to visit the Sacred Spring, the Roman Temple, the Roman Bath House and the seven sisters by the English Channel, The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford and definitely the Royal Observatory of Greenwich.

History is something one can get engrossed in the UK. It would be like meditating the rich and the royal beauty and walking the Sand of times with the opportunity from http://knowledgeisgreat.in/ initiated by the British Council.

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