Black Hole of Calcutta Black Hole of Calcutta The Black Hole of Calcutta was a small prison or dungeon in Fort William where troops of Siraj ud-Daulah, the Nawab of Bengal, held British prisoners of war for three days on 20 June 1756. 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, Anglo-Indian soldiers, and Indian civilians were imprisoned overnight in conditions so cramped that many people died from suffocation and heat exhaustion, and that 143 of 164 prisoners of war imprisoned there died. Fort
Universities and colleges of West Bengal help of the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Ford Foundation. Universities and colleges of West Bengal The Indian state of West Bengal is the site of India's first modern university and 33 universities are listed under the University Grants Commission (India). West Bengal is the 4th most populated state located in the eastern part of India. It is one of the largest contributors to the gross domestic product of the country and it is a pioneer state in providing modern education. The medium of instruction is usually in Bengali, English and Urdu. Diploma, certificate courses, advanced diploma program,