June 2013
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
11h 9m
English
1. The dates of the monument's demolition are uncertain. The colonial historian W. H. Carey cites the year 1819 (1906–7: 54); Kate Teltscher, in an account which I have concurred with, gives the date as 1821 (1996: 45).
2. In her account of the Black Hole episode, the journalist Jan Dalley quotes George Monbiot on the paradoxical political effects of adversity: ‘the more powerful a nation becomes, the more it asserts its victimhood. In contemporary British eyes, the greatest atrocities of the 18th and 19th centuries were those perpetrated on compatriots in the Black Hole of Calcutta or during the Indian mutiny [. . .] the extreme manifestations of the white man's burden, these events came to symbolise the ...
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