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Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall Kolkata, India The Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata, India, features a grand white marble building with a central dome and a large statue of Queen Victoria at the front steps. Kolkata: basti Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall Children in colorful traditional clothing and floral headpieces dance and flower garlands on a street. Howrah bridge Mother Teresa of Calcutta wearing her white sari with blue stripes, shown in profile at the World Conference of the International Women's Year in Mexico City, 1975. Presidency College: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio statue Kolkata, India: Asiatic Society of Bengal headquarters
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Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall
Victoria Memorial Hall in Kolkata, India.
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Kolkata, India
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Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall
Statue of Queen Victoria in front of Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, West Bengal,...
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Kolkata: basti
A poor area of urban settlement, called a basti (bustee), along a railroad...
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Kolkata: Victoria Memorial Hall
Victoria Memorial Hall, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
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Kolkata: Holi festival
Children in Kolkata participating in the Hindu festival of Holi, a celebration of...
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Howrah bridge
Rabindra Setu, the bridge over the Hooghly River linking Howrah and Kolkata, West...
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Mother Teresa, 1975
Many Roman Catholics regarded Mother Teresa as a living saint. She died in 1997 and...
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Presidency College: Henry Louis Vivian Derozio statue
Statue of Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, an early 19th-century educator at Hindu College...
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Kolkata, India: Asiatic Society of Bengal headquarters
Asiatic Society of Bengal headquarters, Kolkata, India.
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Courtyard of the Indian Museum, Kolkata, India.
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Rabindranath Tagore at Shantiniketan
Rabindranath Tagore in his study at Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
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Indian Botanic Garden
Lake at the Indian Botanic Garden, Haora, West Bengal, India.
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Encyclopædia Britannica: map of Calcutta c. 1900
Map of Calcutta (Kolkata) c. 1900 from the 10th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Indian heat wave of 2015
Hand-pulled rickshaw drivers attempting to stay cool between fares in Kolkata, India...
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