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Hookah smoking in colonial Calcutta
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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Vivekananda’s journey
How a young Indian monk’s travels around the world inspired modern yoga.
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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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Asiatick researches, or, Transactions of the society instituted in Bengal, for inquiring into the history and antiquities, the arts, sciences, and literature of Asia.
Date: 1788-1839- Books
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A discourse on the institution of a society for enquiring into the history, civil and natural, the antiquities, arts, sciences, and literature of Asia, delivered at Calcutta, January 15th, 1784: A charge to the Grand Jury at Calcutta, December 4th, 1783: and a hymn to Camdeo, translated from the Hindu into Persian, and from the Persian into English. By Sir William Jones.
Jones, William, 1746-1794.Date: 1784