Word: nawab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grandfather left him a fortune of several hundred million dollars, but play no glad ragas for Nawab Mir Barkat AH Khan, 34, Nizam of Hyderabad. The legacy also included a household staff of 14,000 hungry souls, and an accounting system so lax, says the Nizam, that "every restaurant in the vicinity was being secretly supplied with food from my grandfather's kitchens." So now he has slashed his staff to a bareboned 2,000, which touched off a protest march by 500 of the dismissed employees. There was nothing else to do: the Indian government has sliced...
After Drake's desertion, command was awarded to Chief Magistrate John Zephaniah Holwell, a man with a will to win. The garrison, now reduced to 170 fighting men, battled so fiercely that Indian losses soon stood at 7,000 dead. Once again, the Nawab stood ready to lift the siege, but once again his enemies rescued him. Fifty-six Dutch mercenaries sold out to the Indian leader and handed over the fort...
...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...
Sold Out. Nevertheless, the siege began with a British victory. One English officer and 57 men held an outpost for nine hours against the attacks of 5,000 Indians. The Nawab prepared to order a general retreat, but he did not have to: Drake retreated first. In a panic he abandoned a key position-and then hid in a cellar, where he fell asleep on a storage bin. After he woke up, Drake took his first and last decisive action. He strode to the riverbank, jumped into a rowboat, and was last seen shinnying shamelessly aboard a merchantman moored near...
...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...