A statue of a former maharaja will be placed in front of the city's iconic Curzon Gate by the Bardhaman municipality. Why, 117 years after leaving India, does this imperialist former viceroy still cause fury and loathing? Just who was Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India who partitioned Bengal in 1905?
After it was revealed earlier this week that the Trinamool Congress (TMC)-run Bardhaman municipality had decided to construct a statue of Bardhaman's Maharaja Bijay Chand Mahatab and his wife Radharani in front of the city's iconic landmark, the 119-year-old Curzon Gate in West Bengal became the center of a political controversy.
Politicians, historians, and heritage specialists have criticized the ruling party's choice, with some arguing that the statutes will obscure the view of the structure which was erected by Mahatab in 1903 for Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India at the time, visited Bardhaman.
Curzon is arguably the Viceroy of India who has drawn the greatest criticism s...
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