My Grandad used to walk into a dark room and say,
"Bloody hell! It is blacker than the Black Hole of Calcutta in here!"
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta?"
2006-08-13 17:03:24 · 12 answers · asked by brendanconnal 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon where troops of the Nawab of Bengal held British prisoners of war after the capture of Fort William on June 20, 1756.
According to an account by a survivor, 123 of 146 prisoners died of heat exhaustion in the confined conditions. Certain historians now believe the number to be at most 43.
Holwell had erected a tablet on the site of the Black Hole to commemorate the victims, but at some point before 1822 (the precise date is uncertain) it disappeared.
Lord Curzon, on becoming Viceroy in 1899, noticed that there was nothing to mark the spot and commissioned a new monument, mentioning the prior existence of Holwell's; it was erected in 1901 at the corner of Dalhousie Square, which is said to be the site of the Black Hole.
2006-08-13 17:14:36 · answer #1 · answered by J D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In 1857 during the Indian Mutiny some English families were
were imprisoned in a very small windowless room in Calcutta which was the capital city of India in those days.
When the room was opened the following day most of them were dead from suffocation and heat.
2006-08-14 01:16:30 · answer #2 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a jail in Calcutta where there was standing room only. People would die upright.
I understand that the prisoners were lowered into a pit with no way out except up.
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2006-08-14 00:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For a change some Brits were taken prisoner in Calcutta and locked up in a dungeon. Many died due to the lack of air. They still did not get the hint that they were not welcome in India and stayed on for over 200 years
2006-08-14 00:10:25 · answer #4 · answered by raininrio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
black hole of Calcutta was a massacre of English people by Indians
2006-08-15 12:24:03 · answer #5 · answered by Conservative 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm not sure, but it was mentioned in the music man. it sounds like a dark dungeon/prison
2006-08-14 01:37:09 · answer #6 · answered by nickname 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he was having an affair with her hahaha
2006-08-14 01:14:55 · answer #7 · answered by nandisvara_ishaya 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
im guessing somewhere dark
2006-08-14 00:08:29 · answer #8 · answered by S.P. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it was a prison
2006-08-14 00:10:10 · answer #9 · answered by omnigomni 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_of_Calcutta
you will find everything you need to know
2006-08-14 00:13:45 · answer #10 · answered by mwk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋