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Yeah sure, everything that happened in British colonies was the fault of the British Empire. Even if it was a drought or natural disaster or if the country wasn

Yeah sure, everything that happened in British colonies was the fault of the British Empire. Even if it was a drought or natural disaster or if the country wasn't even part of the Empire. Let's just call it genocide because you feel like it. Legal definitions do not matter, all that matters is how you feel about it.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
There's also "recorded history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 Approximately 3 million people died due to famine .... Although food production was higher in 1943 compared to 1941,[3] due to the British Empire taking 60% of all harvests and ordering Bengal to supply a greater proportion of the food for their army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876–78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876–78 he death toll from this famine is estimated to be in the range of 5.5 million people. .... during the famine the viceroy, Lord Lytton, oversaw the export to England of a record 6.4 million hundredweight (320,000 ton) of wheat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770 The famine is estimated to have caused the deaths of 10 million people .... The (British East India) Company had conquered the area just six years previously f... It destroyed large areas of food crops to make way for the growing of indigo plants for dye and opium poppies for the production of psychoactive drugs. It increased the tax on agricultural produce from 10% to 50%, transferring much of Bengal's wealth to the company's shareholders. The stockpiling of rice was also outlawed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orissa_famine_of_1866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orissa_famine_of_1866 In Odisha alone, at least 1 million people, a third of the population, died in 1866, and overall in the region approximately 4 to 5 million died in the two-year period ... The fact that during the Orissa famine India exported more than 200 million pounds of rice to Great Britain even while more than one million succumbed to famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1896–97 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1896–97 it is thought that in the British territory alone, between 750,000 and 1 million people died of starvation.... Although the famine in the Madras Presidency was preceded by a natural calamity in the form of a drought, it was made more acute by the government's policy of laissez faire in the trade of grain.[8] For example, two of the worst famine-afflicted areas in the Madras Presidency, the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam, continued to export grains throughout the famine (and if you don't want to count famines in India, there was that famous Irish one)
meira 10y ago
Yeah, sure. Nothing that happened in british colonies was not the fault of the British Empire. Let's just call it business because you feel like it. Legal definitions do not matter, all that matters is how you feel about it.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

There's also "recorded history". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943 Approximately 3 million people died due to famine .... Although food production was higher in 1943 compared to 1941,[3] due to the British Empire taking 60% of all harvests and ordering Bengal to supply a greater proportion of the food for their army https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876–78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876–78 he death toll from this famine is estimated to be in the range of 5.5 million people. .... during the famine the viceroy, Lord Lytton, oversaw the export to England of a record 6.4 million hundredweight (320,000 ton) of wheat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770 The famine is estimated to have caused the deaths of 10 million people .... The (British East India) Company had conquered the area just six years previously f... It destroyed large areas of food crops to make way for the growing of indigo plants for dye and opium poppies for the production of psychoactive drugs. It increased the tax on agricultural produce from 10% to 50%, transferring much of Bengal's wealth to the company's shareholders. The stockpiling of rice was also outlawed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orissa_famine_of_1866 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orissa_famine_of_1866 In Odisha alone, at least 1 million people, a third of the population, died in 1866, and overall in the region approximately 4 to 5 million died in the two-year period ... The fact that during the Orissa famine India exported more than 200 million pounds of rice to Great Britain even while more than one million succumbed to famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1896–97 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_famine_of_1896–97 it is thought that in the British territory alone, between 750,000 and 1 million people died of starvation.... Although the famine in the Madras Presidency was preceded by a natural calamity in the form of a drought, it was made more acute by the government's policy of laissez faire in the trade of grain.[8] For example, two of the worst famine-afflicted areas in the Madras Presidency, the districts of Ganjam and Vizagapatam, continued to export grains throughout the famine (and if you don't want to count famines in India, there was that famous Irish one)

meira 10y ago

Yeah, sure. Nothing that happened in british colonies was not the fault of the British Empire. Let's just call it business because you feel like it. Legal definitions do not matter, all that matters is how you feel about it.