Burning Ghat, Calcutta

This material is held atEdinburgh University Library Heritage Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 237 Coll-1434/194
  • Dates of Creation
    • 1870s-1930s
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 81mm by 83mm 1 slide
      81mm by 83mm

Scope and Content

Photograph of a woman lying on a burning ghat to be cremated while four women pray and two men stand around her in Calcutta in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Archivist's Note

Catalogued by Kristy Davis as part of Towards Dolly Project, 2012-2013

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