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Where the living are bathed and the dead are burned beside the Ganges at Benares, India

India · 1907

Where the living are bathed and the dead are burned beside the Ganges at Benares, India, India, 1907
Where the living are bathed and the dead are burned beside the Ganges at Benares, India, India, 1907. World cities — The 1800s Archive, from the Library of Congress record.

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