The black hole of empire : history of a global practice of power /
Partha Chatterjee.
- Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013
- xi,425 p. ;: 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index
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. Wh