Dalhousie Square, Calcutta

Dalhousie Square, Calcutta

c. 1907
Publisher No.: 
8901
13.85x
8.80cm

[Original caption] Dalhousie Square. On the front of the huge Post Office in this Square is a slab marking the site of the "Black Hole" tragedy, when 148 English people were forced into a small guard-room with only two small windows in the heat of June, 1756, and only 23 came out alive. Lord Curzon has erected a monument to commemorate this tragic episode. [end]

Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, popularly known as B.B.D. Bagh, was formerly called Dalhousie Square and is the seat of the West Bengal government.