| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Howrah Station
|
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Begger at the railway station.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Howrah Station
|
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Snack seller.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Howrah Station
|
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Sadhu (Hindu holy man) and passenger.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Temple of Kalighat
|
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The Temple of Kalighat, the goddess of death from which the city gets its name.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Temple of Kalighat
|
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The interior.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Temple of Kalighat
|
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A priest beneath a bell.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Temple of Kalighat
|
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The goddess, Kali.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A taxi and film posters in Chawringee, Calcutta's main street.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Bengali tabla maker.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Child in the city centre.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Shopkeepers.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Traffic police.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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In 1988 the state government was Marxist.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A full tram.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Tenement blocks.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Children playing at a housing estate.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A typical city bazaar.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Calcutta is a busy and crowded city.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Local transport.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A stage coach on the streets of Culcatta.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Calcutta is the final outpost of the man powered rickshaw.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Man on a rickshaw.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Family on a rickshaw.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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The busy and lively streets of the city.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Posters being sold.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Tipu Sultan Mosque
|
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The Tipu Sultan Mosque dates from 1842.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Tipu Sultan Mosque
|
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The mosque is next to a busy street.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Bengali movie posters.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Shops and street life.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Sugar cane juice.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Letter writers.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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The old city.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Nakhoda Mosque
|
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The Moghul style Nakhoda Mosque in the heart of the Muslim Bazaar.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Nakhoda Mosque
|
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The mosque is set in the narrow streets of the bazaar and dates from 1926.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
Site / Event : Nakhoda Mosque
|
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Worshippers.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Urdu and Bengali signs.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Political graffiti.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A small Hindu temple.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A group of people in a doorway.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Broken down bus.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Coconuts.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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In the narrow streets of the bazaar.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Snack stall.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Children begging.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Two children.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Making a percussion instrument.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Shops selling metalware.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Street scene in the old city.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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The old city.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Street scene.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Buses and apartments.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Poverty is rife in Culcutta where many families live in shanty towns.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Morning ablutions.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Street water pump.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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A rickety shack.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Recycling rubbish.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Salvaging fire wood.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Shacks built next to a railway line.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Waiting for a train to pass.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Calcutta
|
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Local market.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Darjeeling is a hill station at 2100m.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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The spectacular setting of Darjeeling in the foothills of the Himalaya.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Darjeeling is overlooked by snow-capped mountains.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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The region is very picturesque and close to the border with Nepal.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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The foothills of the Himalaya.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Kangchenjunga (8586m), the world's third highest mountain.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Darjeeling is famous for its tea plantations.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Misty morning over Darjeeling.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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The Darjeeling region at dawn.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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View across the valley.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Multiple ridges across the valley.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Precarious buildings.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Buildings are perched on the hillsides.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Misty view.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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The main street.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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A group of Nepalese children.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Nepalese Gurkha.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Houses on the upper hills.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Gurkha girl in the Himalayan town of Darjeeling.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Pathways lead up the hill to houses.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Family.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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One of the hillside districts.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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A row of houses and pedestrians.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Family in the narrow alleys of Darjeeling.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Children with a football.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Wooden houses.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Coffee house run by Nepalese.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Houses on a ridge.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Tea plantation.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Nepalese multi storey house.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Quiet street scene.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Elegant buildings on the hillside.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Colonial building in Darjeeling, once a hill station for the British rulers.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Snow capped mountains overlooking Darjeeling.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
|
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Zig zag path to the top of a ridge.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
Site / Event : Tibetan Refugee Camp
|
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A Tibetan refugee camp.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
Site / Event : Tibetan Refugee Camp
|
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One of the buildings in the camp.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
Site / Event : Tibetan Refugee Camp
|
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Tibetans arrived in India after the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1959.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
Site / Event : Tibetan Refugee Camp
|
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A group of Tibetan children.
|
1988 |
| India |
State / Province : West Bengal
City / Town : Darjeeling
Site / Event : Tibetan Refugee Camp
|
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Tibetan girls at the refugee camp.
|
1988 |
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