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Hookah smoking in colonial Calcutta
| Baijayanti Chatterjee
Hookah smoking began in the royal courts of Mughal India, and like many other local customs, it was readily adopted by British colonials in the 18th century as a symbol of wealth and status.
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- Article
Vivekananda’s journey
| Lalita Kaplish
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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- Article
The colonist who faced the blue terror
| Anna Faherty
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.