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The fires inside this ghat have already consumed hundreds of famine-twisted bodies, and the woodpile in front of the building proclaims that more Hindu corpses are expected. Calcutta has five such ghats and during the weeks when famine was at its height at least 100 dead per day were shoveled into the fires. Famine conditions created by British occupation increased the toll.

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Uploaded on May 27, 2025