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Ques: Write about the Black hole of Calcutta.

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Answer 1

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The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison or dungeon in Fort William where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war for three days on 20 June 1756.......✌✌✌

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Answer 2

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⇒The horrifying story of the Black Hole of Calcutta starts in early 1756. The East India Company, a relative newcomer to the Indian subcontinent, had already established a popular trading base in Calcutta but this hegemony was under threat by French interests in the area.

⇒As a preventive measure, the Company decided to increase the defences of its main fort in the city, Fort William.

It is important to remember that during these early days of colonial rule, the East India Company had direct control only over a small number of strongholds in India, and to maintain these strongholds the Company was often forced into uneasy truces with nearby princely states and their ruling ‘Nawabs’.

Upon hearing of the increased militarisation of Fort William, the nearby Newab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, rallied together some 50,000 troops, fifty cannons and 500 elephants and marched on Calcutta.

By June 19th 1756 most of the local British staff had retreated to the Company’s ships in the harbour, and the Newab’s force was at the gates of Fort William.

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