Wasn't the green revolution shortly after that? Which just leaves a <20 year window where a famine was possible. And British India had plenty of gaps of that s

Wasn't the green revolution shortly after that? Which just leaves a <20 year window where a famine was possible. And British India had plenty of gaps of that size. I won't say it's literally zero evidence that famine was much more frequent under British rule, but its not very strong given the obvious confounder.