Author: Dalley, Jan.
Title: The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire.
Description: London Penguin Books, 2007. Reprint ed. Paperback trade, very good condition, black & white photos centre spread, minor edgewear. 221 pp. Jan Dalley examines the story of the "Black Hole of Calcutta", one of history's puzzles. How in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal attacked Fort William and locked the survivors in a tiny cell, where over 100 died in insufferable heat. British retribution was swift and merciless. The author has produced a very readable history, and how this myth is based on improbable exaggeration and half-truth, and helped to justify the march of British Empire in India for 200 years. ISBN: 9780141014999

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