The Black Hole of Empire : History of a Global Practice of Power.
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 Calcu...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2012.
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