This photograph dating to around 1913 shows Hindus preparing to cremate someone who has died at a cremation ghat at Benares, India. In India, a ghat is a landing place, with stairs descending to a river (here, the Ganges river) for purposes of bathing, cremating the dead, and other activities. The cremation ghat is the level space at the head of a ghat, the space where Hindus cremate their dead.
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