THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA by Noel Barber. 254 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $3.95. The Black Hole of Calcutta? U.S. Physicist and Amateur Historian Harvey Einbinder declared in 1963 that it was just a ...

He’d been the Chief Magistrate of Calcutta - he’d been left in charge. And he and his men were marched into a cell just 18 foot wide at gun point. It became known simply as the Black Hole.

He gives graphic descriptions of skirmishes, battles and sieges across its length and breadth, from the Black Hole of Calcutta to Francis Younghusband’s 1904 expedition to the Only a selection of our ...

6. He was arrested in 1940 before he could launch a campaign to remove the monument dedicated to the victims of the Black Hole of Calcutta, an incident when a number of European soldiers died while ...