THE BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA by Noel Barber. 254 pages. Houghton Mifflin. $3.95. The Black Hole of Calcutta? U.S. Physicist and Amateur Historian Harvey Einbinder declared in 1963 that it was just a ...

He’d been the Chief Magistrate of Calcutta - he’d been left in charge. And he and his men were marched into a cell just 18 foot wide at gun point. It became known simply as the Black Hole.

6. He was arrested in 1940 before he could launch a campaign to remove the monument dedicated to the victims of the Black Hole of Calcutta, an incident when a number of European soldiers died while ...