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  1. Incident in Anglo-Indian history: according
  2. to tradition, the nawab (ruler) of Bengal
  3. confined 146 British prisoners on the night
  4. of 20 June 1756 in one small room, of whom
  5. only 23 allegedly survived. Later research
  6. reduced the death count to 43, assigning
  7. negligence rather than intention.
  8.