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Places are in Calcutta unless otherwise indicated. Groups include: United Missionary Girls' High School junior needlework class, prize winners, and seniors (cooking); Prem Chand Ghosh and family; classes of women and children in southern Bengal villages. People featured include: "worshipper of Siva"; "Holy man"; ascetic by river, Berhampore [Berhampur]; Rev. [Francis] Longman; [Emily] Rees; man carrying plough. Activities featured include: bathing in the "sacred stream" at Kalighat; traveling to and from schools, etc.; preparing cotton; making mat and hoogla screens; making mud bricks; weeding; taking a lunch rest; fishing in a tank; making string; carrying "burdens"; ploughing; planting young rice. Other places or buildings featured include: Kalighat Temple; 16 and 17 Elgin Road; LMS Institution College; Moslem Shrine near Elgin Road; botanical gardens; Chowringhee Road; Victoria House; Curzon Gardens; Nakhoda Musjid; Victoria Memorial; Siva Temple, Berhampore; Joynagar Temples. Also includes: cow and rubbish bin; shrines to Dakhin Roy, "god of the ricefields"; gateway and shrine, South India; duck pen "while rice is ripe".
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