File:KolkataChinaTownOld.jpg

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English: A little snooping in Chinatown will turn up the little opium dens stuck down an alley (not recommended without police escort). Actually, the smokers shown in this picture do it legally. Each den is licensed for so many pipes. Each pipe costs a rupee, a phial of opium five rupees. Average smoker consumes a phial a day and there are about 186 pipes licensed in Calcutta.
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Source http://oldsite.library.upenn.edu/etext/sasia/calcutta1947/2.html
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Clyde Waddell  (–1997)  wikidata:Q18348057
 
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current19:01, 16 April 2006Thumbnail for version as of 19:01, 16 April 2006964 × 707 (188 KB)Dwaipayanc (talk | contribs)==Description== A little snooping in Chinatown will turn up the little opium dens stuck down an alley (not recom- mended without police escort). Actually, the smokers shown in this picture do it legally. Each den is licen- sed for so many pipes. Each p

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