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1. Black Hole of Calcuttanoun

   a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive

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1. Black Hole of Calcutta

   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.: 58  John Zephaniah Holwell, one of the British prisoners and an employee of the East India Company, said that, after the fall of Fort William, the surviving British soldiers, Indian sepoys, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped that many people died from suffocation and heat exhaustion, and that 123 of 146 prisoners of war imprisoned there died. Some modern historians believe that 64 prisoners were sent into the Hole, and that 43 died there. Some historians put the figure even lower, to about 18 dead, while questioning the veracity of Holwell's account itself.

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1. black hole of calcutta

   The Black Hole of Calcutta refers to a historical incident that occurred in 1756, in Fort William, Calcutta (present-day Kolkata), India when British prisoners of war were allegedly kept by Siraj-ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, in extremely cramped and terrible conditions in a small prison cell (which came to be known as the "black hole"). The lack of air and space reportedly led to many deaths, although exact numbers and details have been a point of historical debate. Today, the term is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to a place or situation of great suffering or unbearable conditions.

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1. Black Hole of Calcutta

   The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small dungeon in the old Fort William, at Calcutta, India, where troops of the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, held British prisoners of war after the capture of the Fort on 20 June 1756. One of the prisoners, John Zephaniah Holwell, claimed that following the fall of the fort, British and Anglo-Indian soldiers and civilians were held overnight in conditions so cramped that many died from suffocation, heat exhaustion and crushing. He claimed that 123 prisoners died out of 146 held. However, the precise number of deaths, and the accuracy of Holwell's claims, have been the subject of controversy.

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1. Black Hole of Calcutta

   a confined apartment 13 ft. square, into which 146 English prisoners were crammed by the orders of Surajah Dowia on the 19th June 1756; their sufferings were excruciating, and only 23 survived till morning.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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