| 1. | In 1770, during Bengal famine of 1770, a great epidemic of small pox raged in Murshidabad and killing 63,000 of its inhabitants, one of them being Nawab Nazim Saif ud-Daulah, himself. Lors de la famine au Bengale de 1770, une épidémie de variole tue 63 000 habitants à Murshidabad, dont le nabab nazim Saïf al-Dawla lui-même. |