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The problem with ancient history as that you never really knew what happened and exactly how many people died. Europeans certainly weren't the first empire to l
by rr888 4y ago
The problem with ancient history as that you never really knew what happened and exactly how many people died. Europeans certainly weren't the first empire to lay claim to India. Warfare, invasions and famine are as old as human history. India is one of the oldest civilised parts of the world so has had its fair share of all https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_India
- kaesar14 4y ago
- mr_toad 4y ago> If there’s an archaeological record of anything as terrible as the Bengal famine The Mongol invasion of China, and the German invasion of the Soviet Union caused far more deaths.
- kaesar14 4y agoI wasn’t aware those places were in India, the subject of this exchange. Entirely possible and supported by mainstream historians that the colonial regime did lead to a number of deaths around the same magnitude of both of those events though, fwiw.
- poulpy123 4y agothe india famine of the end of the 19e century (also british caused) and of course all the indian famines before the british put a foot there