Foreign commercial rights in this city were extended after the physician William Hamilton curedFarrukh Siyar of an agonizing disease.
Foreign commercial rights in this city were extended after the physician William Hamilton curedFarrukh Siyar of an agonizing disease. Protection against the bargis for citizens of this city wasprovided by the Maratha Ditch. A park called Maidan surrounds Fort William in this city. In the1960s, this city's Presidency College became a center of the Naxalite movement. This city serves asthe capital of the state of (*) West Bengal. In the eighteenth century, men under the command of JohnHolwell were killed in this city after being imprisoned by Siraj al-Dawlah in a cramped prison. For 10points, name this Indian city that served as the capital of the British raj, home to a dungeon called its "blackhole".
Foreign commercial rights in this city were extended after the physician William Hamilton curedFarrukh Siyar of an agonizing disease.
Kolkata [or Calcutta or Kalikata]