INDIAN SPECTACLES.
NATIVE OPINION HOSTILE.'' By Telegraph—Press Association— (Received December 9, 10.25 p.m.) London, December 9. The India Office has reported unfavourably against a spectacle called "A Romance of India," now being produced at Earl's Court. Hindoo residents in London have protested against a reproduction of the Siva ritual. " The Black Holo of Calcutta" episodes also offend Indian sentiment.
"BLACK HOLE OF CALCUTTA." In 1756, Surajah Dowlah captured Calcutta. His prisoners, to tho number of over 120, were huddled together into one small room during tho heat of an Indiun night, and deprived, in addition, of water. In the morning nearly the wholo of tho prisoners were dead. Clive arrived on the sceno shortly afterwards with a small army, and by tho battle of Plassey overthrew Surajah Dowlah and established a firm footing for Britain in Bengal. Siva is the Destroyer in tho Hindoo trinity, in which Brahma is the Creator, and Vishnu the Preserver, Siva is worshipped as Mahadeva or the great god.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15479, 10 December 1913, Page 7
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