The Black Hole Of Calcutta: A Reconstruction by Noel Barber, Noel Barber

The Black Hole Of Calcutta: A Reconstruction

Noel Barber, Noel Barber

254 pages first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction history dark mysterious slow-paced
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A bare, low-ceilinged dungeon with two barred air-holes, the cell known as the Black Hole prison, in the British East India Company’s Fort William, was intended to hold at most a couple of prisoners. But on the terrible night of June 20, 1756, at ...

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