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Black Hole of Calcutta
noun
- a small dungeon in which in 1756 the Nawab of Bengal reputedly confined 146 English prisoners, of whom only 23 survived
- informal.any uncomfortable or overcrowded place
Black Hole of Calcutta
- A cell in the jail of a British fort in Calcutta , India . In the middle of the eighteenth century, British and Indian troops clashed at the fort. The Indian troops drove a reported 146 defenders of the fort into the cell, which measured about fifteen by eighteen feet. Many had suffocated by the next morning.
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