The black hole
Subtitle: money, myth and empire
By: Jan Dalley
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780141014999
Subjects: Officials and employees; Black Hole Incident, Kolkata, India, 1756; History; Employees; East India Company
Description: The Black Hole is the story of the propagation of a myth that arose as the British Empire came into being. A myth about the barbarism of a people the colonials sought to rule, and how the myth based on improbable exaggeration and half-truth helped justify the march of empire for two hundred years.
Notes: Originally published: London: Penguin/Fig Tree, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references and index.