Siraj-ud-Daula (1728–1757)
Nawab of Bengal, India, from April 1756. He captured Calcutta (now Kolkata) from the British in June 1756 and imprisoned some of the British in the Black Hole of Calcutta (a small room in which a number of them died), but was defeated in 1757 by Robert Clive, and lost Bengal to the British at the Battle of Plassey. He was killed in his capital, Murshidabad.
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