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Cholera Pandemic I
In the tangled waterways of the Ganges delta, life and death flowed side by side. Every drop of water carried a hidden risk, yet no one imagined disaster was already seeded in the patterns of daily survival.What happens when a community’s most vital resource becomes its greatest threat? The early nineteenth century Bengal Presidency was a world built on rivers. Water was more than a background—it was transport, ritual, and the link that tied villages, markets, and cities together. Calcutta, the British East India Company’s seat of power, pulsed with commerce and movement. Its officials…
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