344 Pages
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Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
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Who went into the Black Hole of Calcutta? Who came out alive? And does it matter anyway? Historically not at all, but it is perhaps important to try to understand why such an event (of which the known facts are so at variance with the legend) ever assumed such significance and became one of the few things that anyone knows about India. In The Black Hole (originally published in 1975), Iris... Read more
Introduction One Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Eleven Appendix 1. Text of Howell’s Narrative 2. Biographical Notes
Biography
Iris Macfarlane was a British writer. She born in Quetta, India (now Pakistan) in 1922. She was sent home to England and when she was sixteen was taken out to India in 1939. Having learnt Assamese and Gaelic, she published books of translations of folk stories from the Assamese and the Celts. She studied Assamese and Indian history, which led to several articles in History Today.
