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Mountains of corpses: the deadliest attack of the 1918–19 influenza pandemic in the city of Calcutta

Published Online: 2023-08-15

Published Print: 2023-09

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Basu, Saumitra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2007-3074
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Funding for this research was provided by:

Indian National Science Academy (HS/RC/359)
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Article History

Received: 16 April 2023

Accepted: 7 July 2023

First Online: 15 August 2023

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: I am a Research Associate in the History of Science. My project entitled, ‘Pandemic Spanish Influenza of 1918–19 in India with Special Reference to Colonial Bengal: A Historical Perspective’ was fully funded by Indian National Science Academy (INSA), New Delhi. My project was started on 1<sup>st</sup> October 2021. In connection with this project, I have written this paper. For conducting this research work, I have used unpublished archival documents which I have collected from the Directorate of State Archives, Govt. of West Bengal, Town Hall Library, West Bengal Secretariat Library and Reprography Section, National Library and All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata. I have acknowledged all these institutions in the acknowledgment section. So far as the research on ‘Spanish Influenza in India’ is concerned, colonial Bengal and specifically Calcutta was mournfully under-examined. This perspective inspires me to take this attempt. For this publication, I have no financial interest except for academic interest.

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