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The Indian Famine of 1899-1900 kι||εd millions of people - almost as many as 9 million in all.
Here’s a Famine victims in colonial India, starving during the 1899-1900 famine.
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The Indian Famine of 1899-1900 kι||εd millions of people - almost as many as 9 million in all.
Here’s a Famine victims in colonial India, starving during the 1899-1900 famine.
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In 1899-1900, the monsoon rains failed in central India causing drought to parch crops impacting almost 60 million people.
Despite the fact that Britain had been looting India for more than a century, The British Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon,was concerned with his budget and feared that aid to the starving would cause them to become dependent on hand-outs.
The British stood aside & allowed millions of people in the British Raj to starve to dεαth.
This event was one of several that inspired calls for Indian independence, calls that would increase in volume over the first half of the twentieth century.
This event was one of several that inspired calls for Indian independence, calls that would increase in volume over the first half of the twentieth century.
Source : Dr. Kallie Szczepanski, PhD Boston university, specializing in Asian History.
Image Courtesy : Hulton archive.
Image Courtesy : Hulton archive.
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