Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph.

Date:
[between 1800 and 1899?]
Reference:
664310i
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Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and consigned to the river Ganges. Photograph. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Benares] : [publisher not identified], [between 1800 and 1899?]

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1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 19 x 23.6 cm

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Benares, showing dead body being washed to the sacred water of the Ganges

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Wellcome Collection 664310i

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