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Varansasi Sketchbook page 6 | |||
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Chaitsingh Ghat in Varanasi in the late 1970s. According
to my memories there is an inscription on a plaque on a wall behind
it in memorial to the British who died when they went to arrest the
king of Varanasi, Chait Singh, and then found they had forgotten their
ammunition. There is also a plaque on the front marking the spot where
Chait Singh jumped into the river and escaped when Warren Hastings came
a second time to arrest him.
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Oil, 3' x 2', c. 1980
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