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Paperback The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power Book
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ISBN: 0691152012

ISBN13: 9780691152011

The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power

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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...

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