The Black Hole of Empire : : History of a Global Practice of Power / / Partha Chatterjee.
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&qu...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
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Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 23 halftones. 5 line illus. |
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