Siraj-ud-daula

[si-rahj-ood-dou-luh]

noun

1. 1728?–57, nawab of Bengal 1756–57.

Siraj-ud-daula

/ sɪˈrɑːdʒʊdˈdaʊlə /

noun

1. ?1728–57, Indian leader who became the Great Mogul's deputy in Bengal (1756); opponent of English colonization. He captured Calcutta (1756) from the English and many of his prisoners suffocated in a crowded room that became known as the Black Hole of Calcutta. He was defeated (1757) by a group of Indian nobles in alliance with Robert Clive

Example Sentences

But Siraj-ud-daula was not the man to forget what he regarded as an insult.

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For some two months the English remained in the French Factory, M. Law, at Cossimbazar, warmly soliciting their release from Siraj-ud-daula.

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Siraj-ud-daula, though he did not yet know it, was a ruined man when he returned to his capital.

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The house of Jagat Seth, for instance, was likely to help the English all the more because to its knowledge of them it joined several causes of complaint against Siraj-ud-daula.

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Siraj-ud-daula, the most inconsiderate of men, never supposing that he would need the assistance of mere bankers, or that he could ever have any reason to fear them, never showed them the slightest politeness.

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