Surajah Dowlah

American  

[suh-rah-juh dou-luh] / səˈrɑ dʒə ˈdaʊ lə /

noun

1. Siraj-ud-daula.

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Example Sentences

But as between Clive and Surajah Dowlah, the rule of the former was infinitely better.

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Seven years after that date, Calcutta was attacked suddenly by Surajah Dowlah, Nawab of Bengal.

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In May, 1773, the East India Company, having to come before Parliament for borrowing powers, a select committee was appointed, whose inquiries laid open cases of rapacity and treachery involving the highest personages, and a resolution was carried in the House of Commons affirming that Lord Clive had dishonorably possessed himself of �234,000 at the time of the deposition of Surajah Dowlah, and the establishment of Meer Jaffier.

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The monument, a large pillar, was erected to the memory of 117 employees of the East India Company who died from suffocation in 1756 when Surajah Dowlah, a Bengali ruler, had 147 prisoners thrust into the famous Black Hole—18 feet square.

From Time Magazine Archive

Zachary Macaulay = Zumalacarregui; Billy Ruffian = Bellerophon; Sir Roger Dowlas = Surajah Dowlah, although so limited to the common soldiers and sailors, who first used them, as to be exploded vulgarisms rather than integral parts of the language, are examples of the same tendency towards the irregular accommodation of misunderstood foreign terms.

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