The Black Hole of Calcutta

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In 1756, after a skirmish between the British East India Company and the nawab of Bengal, dozens of captives were put into a holding cell intended for only a few people overnight. Most of them didn't make it out alive.

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2015-09-14 29 min Transcript

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