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Kolkata

Capital city of West Bengal, India

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Images referencing Kolkata

18 images from works
  • Indian workmen mixing and balling opium in a courtyard in Calcutta. Process print after a photograph by Bourne & Shepherd, c. 1900.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.
  • Snake, boldly cross-banded. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.
  • Per post : Messrs. Bathgate & Company, 17 Old Court House Street, Calcutta, India / from Francis Cupiss Ltd., The Wilderness, Diss.
  • The new medical college hospital, Calcutta, India. Wood engraving, 1853.
  • Grasshopper. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.
  • Grasshopper. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.
  • Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
  • Fish (Puffer Fish?): lateral and ventral views. Watercolour by Bhawani Das.

Works from the collections

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    Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 664507i
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    Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 664508i
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    Preliminary report of a malaria survey of Calcutta and environs / by M.O. Tirunarayana Iyengar.

    Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana Iyengar | Date: 1920]
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    Note on the prevalence of the ankylostomum in Calcutta : (for the I.M.G. collective investigation) / by Leonard Rogers.

    Leonard Rogers | Date: 1900
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    A year's experience of malaria at the out-door department of the Medical College Hospital, Calcutta / by J.W.D. Megaw.

    John Megaw | Date: [1907]
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Related topics

India
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Cremation
Manuscripts, Persian
Chennai
Travel
Voyages around the world
Hyderabad
Agra Fort (Agra, India)

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