Lothian Cemetery

Lothian Cemetery lies on Lothian Road in the Kashmiri Gate area of Old Delhi, by the General Post Office, close to the Kauria Bridge bus stop. Opened in 1808, it is one of Delhi's oldest Christian burial grounds and was closed to burials in the 1960s. Many European soldiers killed in the uprising of 1857 are buried here, along with East India Company staff and British women and children who died in cholera epidemics.

The cemetery is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India but is in a run-down state. It also has a name as one of Delhi's haunted places: a popular story tells of a British officer, Sir Nicholas, who shot himself after being unable to marry the Indian woman he loved, and whose headless ghost is said to walk among the graves calling out her name.