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MCCLUSKIEGANJ - MGME

"McCluskieganj" is a small hilly town in Jharkhand State, India, about northwest of the capital, Ranchi. The town used to have a significant Anglo-Indian community at one time but this has declined considerably.

It was founded by the Colonisation Society of India in 1933 as a homeland

"Mooluk" for Anglo-Indians. Anglo-Indians could buy Shares in this co-operative - The Colonisation Society of India - which in turn would allot them a plot of land. It became home to 400 Anglo-Indian families within ten years. In 1932 Ernest Timothy McCluskie, a businessman from Calcutta, the founder of the town, sent circulars to nearly 200,000 Anglo-Indians in India inviting them to settle there. Of the nearly 300 original settlers, only 20 families remain, as most of the Anglo-Indian community left after World War II.

McCluskieganj is also the setting for the 2016 film A Death in the Gunj, which is Konkona Sen Sharma's directorial debut, and set in 1979.

"McCluskeiganj Gurudwara and Temple": lying in the same complex is a place of integrity and shows brotherhood of India.
"McCluskeiganj Mosque": It is just besides the Gurudwara and Temple complex.
"St. John's Church": A historical place built by Anglo-Indians during British rule.