• 23 Sep, 2023

Britain Induced Famine in India killed Millions of Indians & Africans

Britain Induced Famine in India killed Millions of Indians & Africans

Britain Induced Famine in India killed Millions of Indians & Africans

With the death of Queen Elizabeth, nationalists in former colonies especially in Guyana , Africa, and India have been bringing to the fore, reminding the public of the historical abuses people suffered under British rule. Tens of millions were starved to death in India and Africa because Britain diverted food from the colonies to Britain and Europe. Millions more were slaughtered for their opposition to colonial rule.
 
It is noted in a social media article that under British rule, India witnessed 31 famines, with the last one killing 4 million people in 1943 (#BengalFamine). During the same time, 300, 000 tonnes  of wheat were exported from the Indian Deccan plateau to England. A pix was released, a cartoon, showing “well-fed and rich Europeans/travelers from the West clicking our poor ancestors under the attack of intense famine and humiliation)”.
 

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The social media commentary continues:
“In #LateVictorianHolocausts, #MikeDavis points out
that there were 31 deadly famines during the British rule of 200 years compared with 17 famines in the 2,000 years before British rule. Journalist and author #Madhushree Mukherjee in her book #Churchill’s Secret War captures a complete picture of the famine - despite a substantive harvest in 1942, the Indo-Gangetic plain was hit by famine; Bengal received the hardest attack.
 

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As per writers who have been studying Famines in India under the British, the grand old man #Churchill was accountable for the Bengal famine - the malicious intent & the irresponsible attitude towards the holocaust that killed 4 million people and the traumatic aftermath were recorded promptly. Much much before the Bengal famine, there was a massive famine in #Odisha that actually pushed native Indians to rebel against the British. The man-made calamity during 1865-66c led to death of a million people in Balasore, Cuttack and Puri districts. Under pressure from the British pressure, native Govts in many parts of India, allowed unrestricted exports of food-grains even during the times ofduring 1865-66c led to death of a million people in Balasore, Cuttack and Puri districts. Under pressure from the British pressure, native Govts in many parts of India, allowed unrestricted exports of food-grains even during the times of famine.

 
Besides diverting food from India to England and Europe, Britain bled india and Africa of precious  stones and gold. Shashi Tharoor, a world renowned scholar, estimated that some US$45 Trillion of food, materials, and precious stones and gold were looted out of India and sent to England for free.

Dr Vishnu Bisram

Dr Vishnu Bisram is Guyanese born who received his primary and secondary education in Guyana and tertiary education in the US and India. He is a fourth generation Indian. His great grandparents from both his mother and father’s sides were born in India -- Gurbatore from Ghaizpur, Amru from Azamgarh, Sau from Chapra, Mangri from Mau, Bhuri and Bhura Singh from Bharatpur, among others. They all came at different times to then British Guiana (1880s and 1890s) to work on sugar plantations as indentured laborers. After serving ten years, they were freed laborers. They remained on the colony rather than returned to India, married and had children. They used the savings from indentureship to purchase landholdings to cement their ties to their adopted land. They were not given free land. Vishnu Bisram is ninth of twelve children of Gladys and Baldat, rural farmers, she also was a seamstress and he a taylor and they attended to a kitchen garden as well. Vishnu attended the St Joseph Anglican (called English) primary school from 1966 to 1972. In 1972, he passed the annual nationwide Common Entrance exam winning a scholarship place to attend the government Berbice High School in New Amsterdam, some 17 miles from his home village of Ankerville, Port Mourant. He declined the placement scholarship and opted instead for the private Chandisingh High School to which his family pad to pay a tuition. He entered for eight subjects at the Cambridge University Exam in 1977. Vishnu migrated to the USA in 1977 to further his studies. He enrolled at the City College of City University of New York September that year at age 17, studying Bio-Chemistry and also completing a major in Political Science. After his BSc in Bio-Chem, he pursued graduate studies in International Relations earning a MA. He went on to complete multiple post graduate degrees including doctorates in Economics, Sociology, History, Political Science and Educational Administration. Dr Bisram taught for over forty years in various subjects in the US. He also served as a newspaper reporter and columnist for over four decades and is a well-known pollster in the Caribbean region. He is a specialist on the Indian diaspora traveling extensively around the globe to research and write about Indian communities. He published countless articles on various subjects in the mass media, journals, and books. He also organized international conferences on the Indian diaspora and presented papers at many conferences. He was a guest lecturer at universities in Mauritius, India, Fiji, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad, Suriname, USA, and other countries. He is a well regarded political analyst on American and Caribbean politics. He makes him home in Guyana, Trinidad, and America and travels frequently to India.