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Kolkata's Dark Skeleton Trade | When India Exported Human Skeletons

For decades, Kolkata was at the centre of one of the world’s most unusual industries. Every year, thousands of human skeletons were exported from India to medical colleges, universities, and research institutions across the globe.

But where did these skeletons come from? How did Kolkata become the world’s biggest skeleton export hub? And where did science end and ethics begin?

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