Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of 123 English Gentlemen and Others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole at Calcutta ... Illustrated with a view of the monument erected to their memory
Title | Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of 123 English Gentlemen and Others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole at Calcutta ... Illustrated with a view of the monument erected to their memory PDF eBook |
Author | John Zephaniah Holwell |
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Pages | 58 |
Release | 1804 |
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A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English Gentlemen and others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta ... in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756. In a letter to a friend.
Title | A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English Gentlemen and others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta ... in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756. In a letter to a friend. PDF eBook |
Author | John Zephaniah Holwell |
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Pages | 56 |
Release | 1758 |
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A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others
Title | A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others PDF eBook |
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Release | 19?? |
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The Black Hole of Empire
Title | The Black Hole of Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Partha Chatterjee |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 440 |
Release | 2012-04-08 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0691152012 |
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 founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.
Microbe Hunters
Title | Microbe Hunters PDF eBook |
Author | Paul De Kruif |
Publisher | |
Pages | 390 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Bacteriologia |
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First published in 1927.
Hungry Bengal
Title | Hungry Bengal PDF eBook |
Author | Janam Mukherjee |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 346 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190209887 |
Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.
The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women
Title | The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Rowland Marvin |
Publisher | BoD – Books on Demand |
Pages | 174 |
Release | 2020-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3752416041 |
Reproduction of the original: The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin