Photo of photos from the Arnold Bake Collection, Special Collections, Library of the University of Leiden,…

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Photo of photos from the Arnold Bake Collection, Special Collections, Library of the University of Leiden, 2015.

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MymensinghLocation is approximate — known to district level.

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• On 8 March 1956, Arnold Bake had recorded Indira Devi Chaudhurani (1873-1960), Rabindranath’s niece, in her…

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• The exclamation in Supriyoda’s voice as soon as Indira Devi’s song starts to play strikes me every time I…

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• Supriyo Tagore recalls, among other things, the communal riots of 1946 in which their house in Palm Place,…

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• With Ganapati, Bake went back a long way. He was his companion on his trip to Mainadal in 1933.

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• We began by listening to Indira Devi’s recording with Bithika Mukherjee and her son Priyam, who is also a…

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• We began by listening to Indira Devi’s recording with Bithika Mukherjee and her son Priyam, who is also a…

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