The Black Hole of Calcutta was a dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta, measuring 14 by 18 feet (4.3 m × 5.5 m), in which troops of Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab...
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A black hole is a region of extreme gravitational pull. Black hole or blackhole may also refer to: Black hole (networking), in computer networking, a...
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A black hole is a region of spacetime wherein gravity is so strong that no matter or electromagnetic energy (e.g. light) can escape it. Albert Einstein's...
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Siraj-ud-Daulah (category Nawabs of Bengal)
Robert Clive's actions in India, vindicated Siraj ud-Daulah of any charge surrounding the Black Hole incident: "A peace was however agreed upon with Surajah...
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Fort William, India (redirect from Fort William, Calcutta)
An internal guard room became the Black Hole of Calcutta. Today the fort is the headquarters of Eastern Command of the Indian Army. There are two Fort...
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Calcutta, West Virginia, United States Calcutta, Suriname Calcutta, Belize Black Hole of Calcutta, an 18th-century dungeon in Fort William, Calcutta Calcutta...
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St. John's Church, Kolkata (category Monuments of National Importance in West Bengal)
Company after Kolkata (Calcutta) became the effective capital of British India. It is located at the North-Western corner of Raj Bhavan, and served as...
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municipality Hole, Norway, a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway Black Hole of Calcutta, small prison or dungeon in Fort William Celle Hole (German: Celler...
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of Calcutta and the Infamous Black Hole". Military History (April 1997). Leesburg, Virginia: 34–40. "Black Hole of Calcutta". Manas. Retrieved 4 May 2008...
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a mockery of a prison cell named "Calcutta" that Fela inhabited. The name was originally derived from the infamous Black Hole of Calcutta dungeon in...
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a number of Secretariat libraries in Calcutta. Of those, the most important and interesting was the library of the Home Department, which contained many...
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Indian Museum (redirect from Indian Museum, Calcutta)
The Indian Museum (formerly called Imperial Museum of Calcutta before independence,) is a massive museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is...
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Victoria Memorial, Kolkata (redirect from Victoria Memorial in Calcutta)
Martin & Co. of Calcutta, and work on the superstructure began in 1910. In 1911, before construction was finished, George V, the Emperor of India, announced...
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Kolkata (redirect from City of Calcutta)
attacked; his capture of Fort William led to the killings of several East India company officials in the Black Hole of Calcutta. A force of Company soldiers...
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The Calcutta High Court is the oldest High Court in India. It is located at Esplanade Row West, Kolkata, West Bengal. It has jurisdiction over the state...
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disproving the Black Hole of Calcutta theory used by the colonial British to discredit Siraj Ud Daulah in a seminar organized by the Calcutta Historical Society...
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John Zephaniah Holwell (category Fellows of the Royal Society)
antiquities and was an early advocate of animal rights and vegetarianism. Holwell was a survivor of the Black Hole of Calcutta, June 1756, the incident in which...
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Siege of Calcutta. It is said that 123 Britons later died in the Black Hole of Calcutta after his victory, but recent evidence calls into question the numbers...
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General Post Office, Kolkata (redirect from Calcutta GPO)
site of the first Fort William. An alley beside the post office was the site of the guardhouse that housed the infamous 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta (1756)...
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Marble Palace (Kolkata) (redirect from Marble Palace (Calcutta))
Babu Street, Kolkata 700007. It is one of the best-preserved and most elegant houses of nineteenth-century Calcutta. The mansion is famous for its marble...
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Bunker Tragedy (category Massacres of women)
needed] This event is being remembered annually in closed circle. Black Hole of Calcutta Nazi concentration camps "Grünewald, Adam". WW2 Gravestone. Retrieved...
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Presidency University, Kolkata (redirect from Presidency College, Calcutta)
functioning as a constituent college of the University of Calcutta for about 193 years. The University boasts an illustrious list of extraordinary alumni over the...
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Warren Hastings (category Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom)
marched on Calcutta and captured it. The garrison and civilians were then locked up under appalling conditions in the Black Hole of Calcutta. For a while...
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Harvey Einbinder (category University of Connecticut alumni)
Einbinder at one point also disputed the historical accuracy of the Black Hole of Calcutta account.[citation needed] Among his other publications are An...
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Kolkata Metro Line 3 (redirect from IIM Calcutta metro station)
transit metro line of the Kolkata Metro in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. A 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) stretch from Joka to Taratala of this line was inaugurated...
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Direct Action Day (redirect from Great Calcutta Killings)
1946 Calcutta Riots, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta. It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta...
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Prostitution in Kolkata (redirect from Prostitution in Calcutta)
Prostitution in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) is present in different forms and Kolkata's sex industry is one of the largest in Asia. Prostitution may be...
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Kolkata metropolitan region (category Geography of Kolkata)
formerly Calcutta Metropolitan Area), also known as Greater Kolkata, is the urban agglomeration of the city of Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal...
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Zoological Garden, Alipore (redirect from Calcutta Zoo)
we shall find on the site of the old bustees the Calcutta 'Zoo.' A very large share of the credit for the establishment of this pleasant resort is due...
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Road, in the middle of the city, the skyscraper has 65 floors. The developers of The 42 have faced a civil suit in the Calcutta High Court filed by ITC...
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