Word: calcuttas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only 5 ounces. The Keralans have been rioting on and off for three weeks in protest, and last week the rioting spread to other rice-short parts of India. A 15-year-old student died of gunshot wounds after police fired on a mob attacking a police station near Calcutta to protest food shortages. Not far away, in the West Bengal town of Baduria, police fired on a stone-throwing mob of 3,000 rioters who were demanding the release of rice supplies; one rioter was reported killed, and five rioters and several policemen were hurt...
...example, Dev Prasad Kumar, special representative of the Statesman, New Delhi and Calcutta, "will concentrate his study in international affairs on the history and politics of India and plans to make a comprehensive study of the development of Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan...
Former President, Calcutta Y.W.C.A...
...horrors began early in June 1756, when the Nawab of Bengal, taking umbrage at the swaggering economic imperialism of the British, marched on Fort William, the East India Company's stronghold in the brawling boom town of Calcutta. There were 50,000 regulars in the Nawab's army, and in the fort only 515 Europeans able to bear arms -such arms as were available. Thanks to Governor Roger Drake, a 34-year-old ineffectual, fifty cannon were rusted useless, and almost all the powder was too damp to burn...
...Oven. The scene was now set for the last ghastly act of the Calcutta tragedy. Spoiling to avenge their losses, Indian officers persuaded the Nawab to confine his prisoners in the Black Hole, a stone brig precisely 18 ft. long and 14 ft. 10 in. wide, ventilated by two small barred embrasures and designed to accommodate three or four disciplinary cases at a time. Normally, the cell was stinking hot, but when 145 men and one woman were pounded into it by rifle butts, the air became noxious with excremental exhalations, and the temperature rose so rapidly that within...