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THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA MYTH INDIAN EMPIRE NEW BOOK

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Item number:	370287196962
Item location:	Neyland, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
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Title:	The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire
Author:	Jan Dalley
Publisher:	Penguin Books
Size:	140x220 mm
Comments:	Brand new, quality hardback book. 240 pages.
Description:	One small event in 18th-century India has proved an enduring myth, and an enduring puzzle. In 1756, the Nawab of Bengal besieged the British East India Company's fort at Calcutta, and 146 people were locked in a tiny cell. The following morning, only 23 emerged: all the rest had died horribly of suffocation or thirst. That is the version enshrined in the history books for centuries. But was it true? What really happened in the Black Hole is shrouded by layers of self-interest, emotion and propaganda. Its real power is as a symbol. Jan Dalley takes us through a rattling history of the buccaneer 'hatmen' of the East India Company, tracing the growth of the fledgling city of Calcutta. She brilliantly, and with fabulous and pointed detail, describes the places and the people of this amazing story, whether it is the Eurasian teenage bride Mary Carey, the lone woman survivor, the weak English officer class running the Fort of Calcutta, or the imperious, truculent Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah. The way in which the narrative was told and re-told, and how it became one of those stories around which nations form an idea of themselves, is the focus of this book. "The Black Hole" will fascinate everyone interested in India, in British history and in a new look at Empire.

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