Word: ghats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Call. Three days later, in Calcutta, while he was receiving friends' congratulations on his hard-won fight for legal life, Roy suffered a lung hemorrhage, died the next morning. Two doctors signed his death certificate and his body was thoroughly and finally cremated at Calcutta's Keoratolla Ghat. This time witnesses stayed...
...widower held an unsteady umbrella against India's brilliant sun. About his shawled figure pressed kinsfolk and friends, chanting Hindu, Moslem, Parsi and Christian prayers. Intently he looked upon the burning ghat...