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Karakata

1. (loan) (location) Calcutta - second largest city in India and a port in the east.

I te whaikōrerotanga a Rore Kāhana, te tumuaki o ngā kāwana o Īnia, i a ia e whakaatu ana i te mate o tōna iwi māori, i te hui i Karakata ka puta i a ia ēnei kupu… (TP 5/1900:8). / When Lord Curzon, the head of the governors of India, gave a speech outlining the [famine] problem of his native people, at the meeting at Calcutta, he said these words…

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