Moreover, when it came to brutal racial violence, it has been argued that the colonized were also capable of racialized horror. The single most commonly cited example is the so-called Black Hole of Calcutta,7 a notorious incident in June 1756, when, following the capture of the city by the Nawab Siraj al-Dawlah of Bengal, a group of British colonists surrendered and were taken prisoner. A total of
