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Vārānasi (Uttar Pradesh, India)

Images

  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: people bathing in the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • The bathing ghats and lingham temples by the river Ganges, Benares, India. Process print after S.G. Dawson.
  • Baolee at Ramnagur, Benares, India: the public bath in the Ramnagur Palace. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
  • Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.
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Catalogue

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    Vārānasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh: ghats and temples on the Ganges frequented by crowds, at night. Oil painting, 18--.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 584842i
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    Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 47692i
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    Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: the Well of Knowledge. Photograph.

    | Date: [1900?] | Reference: 47691i
    • Books

    Widows in India : study of Varanasi and Vrindavan / Bindeshwar Pathak, Satyendra Tripathi.

    Pathak, Bindeshwar, 1943- | Date: [2016]
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    Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 664462i
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