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3 unusual facts about Amala and Kamala


Amala

Amala and Kamala, two girls discovered in 1920, who were raised by wolves in India

Amala and Kamala

In 1926, Joseph Amrito Lal Singh, the rector of the local orphanage, published an account in the The Statesman published from Calcutta saying that the two girls were given to him by a man who lived in the jungle near the village of Godamuri, in the district of Midnapore, west of Calcutta, and that the girls, when he first saw them, lived in a sort of cage near the house.

Arnold Gesell

In his research he studied many children, including Kamala, the wolf girl.



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