Surajah Dowlah

[ suh-rah-juh dou-luh ]

noun

1. Siraj-ud-daula.

Example Sentences

But as between Clive and Surajah Dowlah, the rule of the former was infinitely better.

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But four years after that American traveller had passed, that peaceful river ran with Christian blood, and that old Indian town witnessed scenes of cruelty worse than that of the Black Hole of Calcutta, committed by a monster more inhuman than Surajah Dowlah.

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Seven years after that date, Calcutta was attacked suddenly by Surajah Dowlah, Nawab of Bengal.

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In June Calcutta had been captured by Surajah Dowlah, followed by the horrors of the Black Hole, which still linger in the proverbial dialect of this country.

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In May, 1773, the East India Company, having to come before Parliament for borrowing powers, a select committee was appointed, whose inquiries laid open cases of rapacity and treachery involving the highest personages, and a resolution was carried in the House of Commons affirming that Lord Clive had dishonorably possessed himself of �234,000 at the time of the deposition of Surajah Dowlah, and the establishment of Meer Jaffier.

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