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When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and fou

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Author

PARTHA CHATTERJEE

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400842605

Category

social science

Subjects

History, Anthropology, Science

Updated

2026-03-25