Paliwal Park
Colonial park with canal-fed lakes, tamarind shade, and a Victorian public library at its edge.
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Paliwal Park in Agra carries two names and two arguments about memory: laid out by the British as Hewitt Park across seventy acres of Civil Lines, renamed after independence for finance minister Krishna Dutta Paliwal, and shaped by the Greek merchant Johns family, whose library and 1905 Queen Victoria marble statue anchor its southern corner. The guide follows what happened when that statue was reinstalled in 2014 and the Bajrang Dal's response. Listen for it near the tamarind trees behind John's Public Library.
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