![]() The Black Hole was "a cube of about 18 feet" with "dead walls" and no fresh air. It was then that, by Holwell's account, the Nawab's soldiers took him and 145 other prisoners to a secret prison in the depths of the fort. The British East India Company's Fort William in the center of Kolkata while under Holwell's command came under siege and was taken over by Nawab of Bengal, Siraj Ud Daulah. As told by a British civil servant, John Holwell, the story of the Black Hole once was an unavoidable feature of Western history texts on India but can now hardly be found. A monument "obscured by overgrown shrubs and rubbish" is on the western wall of the church, Partha Chatterjee told the audience of the inaugural Center for India and South Asia annual lecture on April 11, 2006. Today, the story of the 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta (Kolkata) begins and ends south of the general post office, tucked away in a graveyard of St. The mythical history of the British empire in the East begins in a black hole.
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