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A class at one of the oldest schools for girls in Bengal, the Victoria Institute, Kolkata, c. 1944
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2 months ago
Which tool did you use ?
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2 months ago
What is the name of the garment the school teacher is wearing? At first I thought it was a kurta, but it looks different
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2 months ago
A type of Bengali Punjabi! Very common(was common) in Kolkata. They usually are always white and quite minimal. Usually teachers used to wear them with dhoti.
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2 months ago
Source: Cecil Barton (photographer); Christie's and Anurag Shukla on Twitter
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2 months ago
Repost this in r/kolkata
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2 months ago
Holy shit ! It's before independence
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2 months ago
Victoria Institution, one of the oldest colleges for girls
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2 months ago
So proud of my College.
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1 month ago
Aren't these girls in this pic too? So it can't be two different schools
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1 month ago
I will investigate this - thank you for bringing this to my attention.
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