Ghazal Singer 'Bina' performing

Metadata

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11134/20002:860484441

Persons

Title

Ghazal Singer 'Bina' performing

Origin Information

Date Created	August 19, 2005

Parent Item

Indian Trafficking

Resource Type

Still image

Digital Origin

reformatted digital

Description

'Bina' was trafficked from Bangladesh at 14 by an 'Auntie' who then sold her to a brothel in Calcutta. She was 17 when the photo was taken. She performs as a private Ghazal singer and provides other services in Sonagachi, one of Calcutta's Red Light districts.

Genre

documentary photographs

Subject

Geographic Subject

Held By

Archives & Special Collections, University of Connecticut Library

Creative Commons

Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Note

Note Type

acquisition

Note

Over two hundred digital images and thirty-four framed photographic prints were donated by Mr. Romano in 2008/2009. Additional materials were transferred in 2011-2012 and are on deposit. Preferred Citation: [Item description, #:#], Robin Romano Papers. Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Libraries. Source Identifier: 2008.0006 Source Identifier: http://doddcenter.uconn.edu/asc/findaids/romano/MSS20080006.html

Note Type	source note
Note	U. Roberto (Robin) Romano Papers, 1971-2011

Local Identifier

Source identifier: MSS 2008.0006

0012ROR53FN2A

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