"I hate Indians.They are a beastly people with beastly religion.The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits." Winston Churchill
More people died, more tax on survivors.
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More people died, more tax on survivors.
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The Great Bengal Famine of 1770
Cause: East India company(EIC) bulk purchase of Grains for themselves,Crop failure & farming out of Tax collection during dual governance. Doubling of tax on survivors
Bengal
Impact: 7-10 mln dead (4% of Bengal)
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Cause: East India company(EIC) bulk purchase of Grains for themselves,Crop failure & farming out of Tax collection during dual governance. Doubling of tax on survivors
Bengal
Impact: 7-10 mln dead (4% of Bengal)
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Chalisa Famine 1783-84
Crop failure, Increase in Tax, Forceful Hoarding by EIC.
Region: Delhi, Western Oudh, Eastern Punjab region, Rajputana, Kashmir & Madras City, Mysore.
Impact: 11 mln dead
17% of Sirkazhi in T.N depopulated.
All was for their wars on princely states.
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Crop failure, Increase in Tax, Forceful Hoarding by EIC.
Region: Delhi, Western Oudh, Eastern Punjab region, Rajputana, Kashmir & Madras City, Mysore.
Impact: 11 mln dead
17% of Sirkazhi in T.N depopulated.
All was for their wars on princely states.
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Doji Bara or Skull Famine 1791-92.
Name from Unburied Skulls,bones,mass burials
Anglo Maratha war, Increase in Tax
Region: Hyderabad,Southern Maratha country, Deccan, Gujarat, & Marwar, Madras, Northern Circars
Impact: 10 mln perish
Pic: Mass burials unearthed in N.Karnataka
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Name from Unburied Skulls,bones,mass burials
Anglo Maratha war, Increase in Tax
Region: Hyderabad,Southern Maratha country, Deccan, Gujarat, & Marwar, Madras, Northern Circars
Impact: 10 mln perish
Pic: Mass burials unearthed in N.Karnataka
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The Agra famine of 1837–1838.
Mismanagement of Khareef/ Rabi crops/Insistence of Cash crops/
Increase in Tax, Decades of Economic Depression.
Region: districts of Kanpur, Etawah, Mainpuri, Agra and Kalpi was the hardest hit,Jumna districts of Jalaun, Banda
Impact: 1 mln
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Mismanagement of Khareef/ Rabi crops/Insistence of Cash crops/
Increase in Tax, Decades of Economic Depression.
Region: districts of Kanpur, Etawah, Mainpuri, Agra and Kalpi was the hardest hit,Jumna districts of Jalaun, Banda
Impact: 1 mln
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Upper Doab famine of 1860–1861
Upper Doab of Agra; Delhi & Hissar divisions of the Punjab
All under the Crown
Lack of Crop resource management, emphasis on the Crowns forces for Wars.
Impact: 2 mln perish.
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Upper Doab of Agra; Delhi & Hissar divisions of the Punjab
All under the Crown
Lack of Crop resource management, emphasis on the Crowns forces for Wars.
Impact: 2 mln perish.
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Odisha famine of 1866
"India exported more than 200 million pounds of rice to Great Britain even while more one million succumbed to famine"
Region: Odisha,Upper Madras,Ganjam
Impact:1 mln dead, 4-5 mln in 2 yrs
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"India exported more than 200 million pounds of rice to Great Britain even while more one million succumbed to famine"
Region: Odisha,Upper Madras,Ganjam
Impact:1 mln dead, 4-5 mln in 2 yrs
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Rajputana famine of 1869
Monsoon failure coupled with continued supply to Britain.
Region: Ajmer, Western Agra, Eastern PunjabRajputana
Impact: 1.5 mln dead
A form of Revenge on the formerly warring states against the Union Jack.
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Monsoon failure coupled with continued supply to Britain.
Region: Ajmer, Western Agra, Eastern PunjabRajputana
Impact: 1.5 mln dead
A form of Revenge on the formerly warring states against the Union Jack.
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Bihar famine of 1873–1874
The Bihar famine of 1873–1874 (also the Bengal famine of 1873–1874) was a famine in British India that followed a drought in the province of Bihar, the neighboring provinces of Bengal, the North-Western Provinces & Oudh
Impact: officially 2553
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The Bihar famine of 1873–1874 (also the Bengal famine of 1873–1874) was a famine in British India that followed a drought in the province of Bihar, the neighboring provinces of Bengal, the North-Western Provinces & Oudh
Impact: officially 2553
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Great Famine/ Madras Famine/Southern India famine of 1876–1878
Region: All over Madras Presidency & Bombay.
Impact 6.5 mln to 9.5 mln dead.
The impact was so great that British policy of relief, anticipation of Monsoon, crop failure was being considered.
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Region: All over Madras Presidency & Bombay.
Impact 6.5 mln to 9.5 mln dead.
The impact was so great that British policy of relief, anticipation of Monsoon, crop failure was being considered.
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Indian famine of 1896–1897
Madras, Bombay Deccan, Bengal, United Provinces, Central Provinces,Punjab.
Famine commissions introduced earlier didn't help even though Monsoon was abundant. Emphasis on export to Britain was a reason
Impact: 1 mln
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Madras, Bombay Deccan, Bengal, United Provinces, Central Provinces,Punjab.
Famine commissions introduced earlier didn't help even though Monsoon was abundant. Emphasis on export to Britain was a reason
Impact: 1 mln
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Indian famine of 1899–1900
Bombay, Central Provinces, Berar, Ajmer,Punjab.
Repeat of policies that caused the Indian Famine three years ago coupled by epidemics.
Impact: 1.5 mln dead.
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Bombay, Central Provinces, Berar, Ajmer,Punjab.
Repeat of policies that caused the Indian Famine three years ago coupled by epidemics.
Impact: 1.5 mln dead.
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Bengal Famine 1943
Exclusively caused policy during the war, supplied Britain while Indians were made to starve. Credit to Churchill.
Official Denial Policy.
Impact: 2-4 mln dead
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Exclusively caused policy during the war, supplied Britain while Indians were made to starve. Credit to Churchill.
Official Denial Policy.
Impact: 2-4 mln dead
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Starvation Is an Imperial Resource for Britain
Britain has long history of starving people to death in the name of its Empire.The British ran what they termed ‘relief works’ during some of the famines. Indians were worked to death.
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Britain has long history of starving people to death in the name of its Empire.The British ran what they termed ‘relief works’ during some of the famines. Indians were worked to death.
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During Bihar famine it was declared that the relief given to starving was too generous, and thus decided that future relief was to be ‘thrift’. Lord Salisbury was convinced by senior civil servants that it was “mistake to spend so much money to save a lot of black fellows
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One of the methods the British devised for starving Indians who wanted to get relief was the ‘distance test’. They would be made to walk over ten miles to- from the relief works. Less food was given at these slave labour camps than at the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald.
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Britain’s imperial project in India, its aims and methods, was not to prevent ‘famines’ but to engineer them.
No point dwelling in the past
But A little conscience helps.
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No point dwelling in the past
But A little conscience helps.
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Some...
Errr.Railways...bruh.....at what cost?
85mln to 100mln innocent lives in Famines apart from millions in Wars?
The worst death a human can face is death by starvation.
Never Forget.
Your choice to forgive.
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Errr.Railways...bruh.....at what cost?
85mln to 100mln innocent lives in Famines apart from millions in Wars?
The worst death a human can face is death by starvation.
Never Forget.
Your choice to forgive.
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"I do not admit for instance,that a great wrong has been done to Red Indians of America or black people of Australia. I don't admit that wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way"
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In 1902, Churchill stated that the "great barbaric nations" would "menace civilised nations", and that "The Aryan stock is bound to triumph"
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During Bengal Famine,ships were docking at the port of Calcutta laden with wheat, Churchill and his odious aide, paymaster general Lord Cherwell decided not to allow those ships to disembark their cargoes but to keep sailing onto Europe.
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In an official memo sent by the Bengal authority for relief, he wrote, "If the shortages are so bad, why has Gandhi not died yet?"
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Jalianwala Bagh
General Dyer in his testimony, "I could have dispersed the crowd without firing, but chose not to do so because they would have come back, laughed,I would have used machine guns to kill even more if I could have. I did not see reason to help the wounded,"
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General Dyer in his testimony, "I could have dispersed the crowd without firing, but chose not to do so because they would have come back, laughed,I would have used machine guns to kill even more if I could have. I did not see reason to help the wounded,"
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1857 sepoy Mutiny.John Nicholson, is regarded as one of the most crooked personalities.He oversaw hanging of regimental cooks for suspecting poisoning of British soldiers.He was allegedly accused of being fond of "flogging" as a punishment for Indians on almost any ground.
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Send your people to fight wars for them, when their own starve to death.More the population decreases, more the Tax burden by increase in Taxes to compensate for loss in cumulative Tax Revenue.
Can't pay, will transport your kith & kin to plantations worldwide as labour.
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Can't pay, will transport your kith & kin to plantations worldwide as labour.
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