British Raj

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1. Dear teapot, love kettle

Famines in India without any British presence, responsibility or involvement:

1022 CE
1033 CE
1052 CE
1344-1345 CE
1396-1407 CE Durga Devi famine
1630-1632 CE Deccan famine- 2million dead
1661-1662 CE
1669 CE Bengal famine
1702-1704 CE Deccan famine -2 million died
1783-1784 CE Chalsa famine – 11 million dead
1789-1792 CE Doji Bara famine -11million dead
1869 CE Rajputana famine- 2million dead

It seems no Indian records survive for some of these famines, but taking a conservative estimate of 2 million dead in each case, it seems that successive native Indian governments and rulers have been responsible for the “genocide” of at least 42 million of their own people.

The reason there have been no famines in India since independence is thanks to Norman Borlaug’s dwarf wheat along with the invention of the aeroplane, helicopter and the parachute. None of which were available to the British Raj in 1877. Oh, and yes there has been famine in ex-British India, in 1974 1.5 million dead and the Indian government did next to nothing.

Dear teapot, love kettle.