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THREAD- VISIT THE TIME OF 1832
Here are the Twenty four Plates Illustrative of Hindoo and European
MANNERS IN BENGAL
BY A. COLIN
From Sketches by Sophie Charlotte Belnos and Drawn on the Stone by Alexandre-Marie Colin
London, published by Smith and Elder,
PL. 1
A Hindoo returning from Callee-Ghau (Kalighat)
PL. 2
⁠A Hindoo Woman serving her husband dinner
PL. 3.
A Hindoo Woman exposing the body of
her infant on the borders of the Ganges
PL. 4
A dying Hindoo brought to the Ganges
PL.5
Offering to the Gange
PL. 6
Feast of the Churruck Poojah
PL. 7
Feast of the Churruck Poojah
PL. 8
Ablutions of a young Hindoo Woman
of rank on the banks of the Ganges
PL. 9
A Hindoo Woman exposing her infant supposed to be under the influence of a malignant spirit
PL. 10
The village Gooroo receiving the homage of travellers
PL. 11
The Hoolly Festival.
PL. 12
The Village Gossips
PL. 13
Silk and Gloth merchant
PL. 14
Interior of a native Hut.
PL.15
Bayee's or dancing Boy's.
PL. 16
Three dancing Girls of Hindoostan
PL. 17
A Nautch
PL.18
A Nautch
PL. 19
The corpse of a native woman floating on the Ganges.
PL. 20
A Bunderwallah
PL.21
Pykars or Pedlars
PL.22
Mussulman Beggar Jogees
Mendiant Musulman
PL. 23.
A Civilian going out.
PL. 24
Men of low cast skinning a dead Bull.

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