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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 of Bengal, held British prisoners of war on the night of 20 June 1756.
Also known as the 1946 Calcutta Riots, it soon became a day of communal violence in Calcutta. [5] It led to large-scale violence between Muslims and Hindus in the city of Calcutta (now known as Kolkata) in the Bengal province of British India. [3] The day also marked the start of what is known as The Week of the Long Knives.
City of Joy (released in the Philippines as Raging Inferno) is a 1992 drama film directed by Roland Joffé, with a screenplay by Mark Medoff.It is based upon the novel of the same name by Dominique Lapierre, which looks at poverty in then-modern India, specifically life in the slums.
Hope: Merchantman: For Francis Vasic. [27] Unknown date India: Calcutta: Hope: Full-rigged ship: For private owner. [36] Unknown date Great Britain: Liverpool: Horatio: Slave ship: For J. Bolton . Unknown date Batavian Republic: Rotterdam: Horsel: Full-rigged ship{ For Batavian Navy. [37] Unknown date Ottoman Empire: Huri-yı Bahri: Fifth rate ...
Cape of Good Hope, an auxiliary steamship. [6] Burmah, Built by Messrs. Scott & Co, Greenock and launched on 3 February 1858. [7] Calcutta, built by Messrs. William Simons & Co., Renfrew and launched on 24 March 1860. [8] Wrecked on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea off the coast of County Wicklow, on 21 May 1860 whilst being delivered to ...
Calcutta If You Must Exile Me" is the best known single poem of the renowned Indian English poet and media personality Pritish Nandy. The poem is widely anthologised in major Indian English poetry collections and is regarded as a pioneering classic in modern Indian English writing. [ 1 ]
Calcutta sailed from Spithead on 28 April 1803, in company with the storeship Ocean, calling at Rio de Janeiro in July, and the Cape of Good Hope in August, arriving at their intended destination in October. Calcutta then sailed alone to Port Jackson to take on a cargo of 800 long tons (810 t) of
Grave of Anne Hope in Highgate Cemetery. She was born in Calcutta, where her father, John Williamson Fulton (1769–1830), was at the time a prosperous merchant; her mother was Anne, daughter of Robert Robertson, and widow of Captain John Hunt of the Bengal army, and she was the second of four daughters.