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Soni Wadhwa

Sex and the city: the seedy nightlife of Calcutta in the 1920s

Calcutta Nights, a memoir first published in 1923, takes the reader on shady, nocturnal adventures in the Indian city in the first two decades of the 20th century. It’s a tale of sex, crime, and gambling in Calcutta’s seedier parts.

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