Walter George Whitman's The Disposal Of The Dead

Walter George Whitman did not spend a great deal of time in India, despite traveling to a number of cities and regions within the nation. None of the postcards in this collection were written on nor were any of them stamped or sent. It can be assumed that Whitman bought these postcards for himself. What is most remarkable about his collection of India postcards is his account of his travels with his family. The only section in his memoir about India was in the section “The Disposal of the Dead,” where he describes his trip to the burning ghats along the Gangers River in Calcutta. The burning ghats is where a mass amount of dead bodies where usually without ceremony. This excerpt is his written experience: “There was only one body out of scores