A MONUMENT CALLED BY THE NAME HOLWELL MONUMENT OR THE BLACK HOLE MONUMENT WHICH WAS ERECTED IN 1902 BY BRIT. GOVERNOR GENERAL LORD CURZON TO COMMEMORATE THE DEATH OF 123 BRIT SOLDIERS BY NAWAB OF BENGAL SIRAZ-UD-DAULLAH IN THE YEAR 1756 , CAN BE SEEN IN THE BACKYARD OF ST.JOHN’S CHURCH IN DALHOUSIE OR BBD BUG OF KOLKATA. NOW AFTER MORE THAN HUNDRED YEARS THIS BLACK HOLE TRAGEDY ACCORDING TO HISTORIANS IS A LIE SPREAD BY BRITISH TO DEFAME SIRAZ.
SIRAZ, WHO WAS GRANDSON OF NAWAB ALIVARDI KHAN, UPON ASCENDING THE THRONE OF BENGAL CAME INTO DISPUTE WITH BRITS. OVER SEVERAL MATTERS.WHEN THE BRITS.STARTED REENFORCING THEIR FORT IN CALCUTTA WITHOUT SIRAZ’S PERMISSION, HE BECAME FURIOUS AND ATTACKED CALCTTA.THE BRITS.OFFICERS FLED LEAVING SOME EMPLOYEE AND CLERKS AS CAPTIVES OF SIRAZ. AMONG THESE PEOPLE A MAN NAMED HOLWELL LATER WROTE AN ACCOUNT IN WHICH HE STATED THAT IN 16th OF JUNE 1756 123 SOLDIERS DIED WHEN THEY WERE THROWN INTO DUNGEONS BY SIRAZ.LATER LORD. CURZON BUILT THE MONUMENT IN THE MEMORY OF THE MASS MURDER. MORE AND MORE RESEARCH FOLLOWED FROM THAT DAY , AT LAST PROVED THAT SIRAZ HAD NOT DONE ANYTHING HENIOUS THAT DAY. THIS WAS ONLY A LIE TO DEFAME HIM. WHEN THIS NEWS BECAME POPULAR SOME RUMORS STATED THAT THE HOLWELL MONUMENT WHICH WAS AT THAT TIME IN AN OPEN SPACE IN DALHOUSIE SQURE COULD BE ATTACKED AND DEMOLISHED, GOVT AFTER INDEPENDENCE TOOK IT FROM THERE AND PLACED IT WITHIN THE WALLED PREMISES OF CENTURIES OLD ST.JOHN’S CHURCH . NOW CURIOUS PEOPLE OFTEN VISIT THE CHURCH TO HAVE A GLIMPSE OF THE MONUMENT ERECTED IN THE MEMORY OF A TOTALLY FALSE INCIDENT IN INDIAN HISTORY.
