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Kolkata (India)

Images

  • 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.
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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
    Part of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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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
    Part of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
    • Books

    Preliminary report of a malaria survey of Calcutta and environs / by M.O. Tirunarayana Iyengar.

    Iyengar, M. O. T. (Mandayam Osuri Tirunarayana), 1895- | 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.

    Rogers, Leonard, 1868-1962. | Date: 1900
    • Books

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

    Megaw, John W. D. (John Wallace Dick), 1874- | Date: [1907]
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