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Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to scatter material from a bowl on a dead body lying on a funeral pyre, watched by women. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

Cremation of a native American lying on a plank of wood above a fire; warning issued by the Californian Rural Indian Health Board to native Americans to practice safe sex. Colour lithograph.

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

Bombay (Mumbai): a body burning on a funeral pyre. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: young men placing the dead body of a man on a funeral pyre. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: a man about to set light to a funeral pyre, watched by men and boys. Photograph.

Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.

Cremation and cholera / by Edgar Sheppard.

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Calcutta, West Bengal: young men standing by a funeral pyre on which they have placed the dead body of a man. Photograph.

Calcutta, West Bengal: the dead body of a man burning on a funeral pyre; a young man standing by. Photograph.

Sanitary disposal of the dead : a lecture / delivered by C.N. Peirce.

Benares (Varanasi), Uttar Pradesh: corpses being burned and bathed. Photograph.

Cremation and cholera / by Edgar Sheppard.