Man at hairdresser’s talks about the history of Kasba.

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Man at hairdresser’s talks about the history of Kasba. The old zamindars who were Sahas, but they lost their fortune and dispersed. They settled near Mama-Bhagne Pahar. Take a bus, get off at such and such place, ask for so an so. Apparently Rabindranath had once come on foot to Kasba. Hard to know how far real and how much imagined these stories were. But the man was a great storyteller. Recorded on my Zoom H2N. 16 June 2018.

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RangpurLocation is approximate — known to district level.

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BDMA-R-000359

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