Author: John Zephaniah Holwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of 123 English Gentlemen and Others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole at Calcutta ... Illustrated with a view of the monument erected to their memory
Author: John Zephaniah Holwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of 123 English Gentlemen and Others, who Were Suffocated in the Black Hole at Calcutta, in the Kingdom of Bengal, in the Night of June 20, 1756
Author: John Zephaniah Holwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
A genuine narrative of the deplorable deaths of the English Gentlemen and others, who were suffocated in the Black Hole in Fort William, at Calcutta ... in the night succeeding the 20th day of June, 1756. In a letter to a friend.
Author: John Zephaniah Holwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others
Author: John Zephaniah Holwell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A Genuine Narrative of the Deplorable Deaths of the English Gentlemen, and Others
The Black Hole of Empire
Author: Partha Chatterjee
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
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 representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691152012
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
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 representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.
Microbe Hunters
Author: Paul De Kruif
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bacteriologia
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
First published in 1927.
Publisher:
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Category : Bacteriologia
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
First published in 1927.
The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women
Author: Frederic Rowland Marvin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752416041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women by Frederic Rowland Marvin
The English in the West Indies
Author: James Anthony Froude
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
ISBN:
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Hungry Bengal
Author: Janam Mukherjee
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190209887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190209887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.