‘If I can open it up then it will be magic, but if I can’t it will be tragic,’ said Mandrake, real name Chanchal Lahiri, before the trick. An Indian magician who entered the Ganges river on ...

These troupes included magicians, dancers, nautch (dance) girls and even children, and snake charmers from India. In 1880, there was an Afghan Museum and Oriental Living Wonders show.