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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: 664507iPart 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: 664508iPart of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta
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Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.
Peirce, C. N.Date: [1891], ©1891
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Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.
Date: [1900?]Reference: 47692i- Books
Contemplating corpses : the dead body in American culture, 1870-1920 / Karen Pomeroy Flood.
Flood, Karen Pomeroy.Date: 2001