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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 yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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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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Calcutta medical journal.
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Calcutta review
Date: 1844-- Journals
Calcutta medical review.
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Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 664506iPart of: Hindu cremation in Calcutta- Pictures
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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