Kolkata: Deep before Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Kabuliwala’ found a place in Bengali Mindscape, Afghanistan had a physical presence in the city in the form of warning war, commemorating the death of 20,000 soldiers in the first Anglo-Afghanistan war.
The ammunition factory which later appeared here also had the role of playing in triggering Sepoy’s dizziness in 1857.
Afghan war memorial was built in Dum Dum in 1841 after England lost the first Anglo-Afghan war.
This structure resembles Shahid Minar is located within the weaponry factory premise.
In 1838, the troops of 21,000 British and Indian troops under the command of Sir John Keane departed from Punjab and reached Quetta in 1839.
The troops beat Kandahar and the parts of Kabul but in 1841 hit and killed nearly 20,000, forced British soldiers to defeat the retreat In a hurry.
“Most of the troops come from Bengal Artillery headquarters.
This is why the war memorial is built here,” said Moumita Saha, a researcher and members of the people of the people of the people.
After the defeat in the first Anglo-Afghan war, East India Company decided to establish a factory of ammunition in 1846 where Dum Dum bullets were produced.
Mutiny Sepoy started in 1857 on the road bullet drunk here.
“If the British Indian company did not lose the war so they would not build warnings and then the ammunition factory where bullets were produced.
So it can be said that the two incidents have a historical link,” said Sayan Mukherjee, a student esthile presidency college who presented a research paper on the topic .