Monday, March 3, 2025

Chapter 12j – India – British Engineered Famines

 Introduction

·         What is written in this chapter on India is yet again a perfect example of what the Christian Europeans did to the entire world; from the Americas to Africa to India and all the way to the Far-East!

·         Up to 30 - 60 million Indians could have died from just the British engineered famines in just 190 years of the 350 years of British invasion. This number is not counting how many Indians the British killed while invading India first.

·         Gujerat in 1807 had plenty of rich families but by 1849, “… have now scarcely clothes to their backs…”, thanks to the British. (www.scalar.lehigh.edu)

·         … “Mr. Giberne remarked in 1840 of the deterioration of just the Gujerat region in India”. He mentioned that the wealthy class of Indians with carts, horses, and attendants, and a great deal of fine clothes and jewelry were now all gone! (www.scalar.lehigh.edu)

·         Now just imagine this was actually happening to the entire country of India and imagine the middle class and the poor. They all suffered!

·         Don’t forget by the 1850s would be 250 years into British invasion and another 100 years of destruction more to go!

·         I do not want to call this British colonialism. This is British invasion, genocide, theft and destruction!

·         History is written by the winners (the Rich and Powerful). So, none of this will be taught in any school.



Colonizers, Geopolitical, Hindu Genocide https://stophindudvesha.org/britains-biological-warfare-how-colonial-famines-made-india-the-worlds-diabetes-capital/

·         India recorded 31 major famines in the 190 years of British rule, compared with only 17 famines in the preceding 2,000 years.

·         Close to 30 million people died due to these British-engineered famines during the Victorian Era (1837-1901) alone; the total number of famine-related deaths during just the 190 years of British rule in India is estimated to be more than 30 - 60 million.

·         Prolonged exposure to frequent food scarcity contributed to a genetic predisposition that makes the Indian population more susceptible to diabetes when exposed to modern diets and sedentary lifestyles.

·         With an estimated 101 million people with diabetes today, India faces a serious health crisis.



https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524

Indian Famine


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524

Indian Famine


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524

Indian Famine


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524

Indian Famine



"For miles round you heard their yell for food,"  https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524

In May 1866, it was no longer easy to ignore the mounting catastrophe in Orissa, India. British administrators in Cuttack found their troops and police officers starving. The remaining inhabitants of Puri were carving out trenches in which to pile the dead. "For miles round you heard their yell for food," commented one observer.

 

The Indian and British press carried reports of rising prices, dwindling grain reserves, and the desperation of peasants no longer able to afford rice.



Warren Hastings of England https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/judd/1938/04/india.htm

At the famous trial of Warren Hastings in England, it was revealed that in 1771 – a year in which the East India Co. reported a large increase in its dividends – at the same time one-third of the Bengal population, i.e., 10,000,000, had died as the result of a ghastly famine!

The 18th Century, the century which saw the British East India Company at the height of its power, was for India a time of unequalled pillage and destruction, outstripping even the efforts of Spain’s Conquistadores in Mexico and Peru.

 

"Many of the best families in the province, who were rich and well to do when we came to Gujerat in 1807, have now scarcely clothes to their backs.

 

Our demands in money (taxes) on the talukdars are more than three times what they originally paid, without one single advantage gained on their parts.

 

Parties, from whom they have been compelled to borrow at ruinous rates of interest, enforced their demands by attachment of their lands and villages; thus, they sink deeper and deeper into debt, without the chance of extricating themselves.

 

What, then, must become of their family?



Key Points

·         India only had 17 famines in 2,000 years until the British came and then there were 31 major famines in less than 200 years.

·         The famines happened because the British controlled what the Indian farmers were allowed to plant and controlled irrigation. The British forced many of the Indian farmers to stop growing food crops and instead grow cotton and opium etc…  that the British could sell and make money for themselves.

·         The British paid almost nothing for the products that the Indian farmers grew and then sold it to English factories for huge profits.

·         The British then imported back the finished products like textiles/clothing for 5 times the price for another huge profit. India made all these products themselves before.

·         Indians who now were struggling from no work due to destroyed factories (by the British) and ridiculously high import taxes and high-income taxes, that they could barely afford any of these products.

·         Heavy land taxes were placed upon the Indians. The result has been described by Isaiah Bowman in his book “The New World”: https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/writers/judd/1938/04/india.htm

o   “Pressing upon the people of India in a manner to produce great distress is the land tax, in addition to which is the water tax in the irrigated areas. The land tax keeps the mass of the population in a state bordering upon slavery. “

o   “Millions cannot get sufficient food. At the end of his year of labor, the farmer finds his crop divided between landlord and the government. He must go into debt to the village shopkeeper, requesting credit for food and seed in the ensuing year.”

·         Indian families, already weak from starvation, were having to bury in shallow trenches their starved to death children and then dead spouse and then hoping a neighbor was strong enough to bury the final parent who will be dead pretty soon after. THIS IS SAD!

·         The British controlled what was planted by the farmers, for food and for sale to Britain.

·         Food for British people was reserved first, and they also had plenty of money to pay for the higher prices during food scarcity.

·         There was some food available for the Indians during the drought, but because most of the Indians did not have any good jobs since the factories were all destroyed by the British in order to send raw materials to England instead, the Indians could not afford to pay for this higher priced food during the drought.

·         During World Wars 1 and 2, the British again reserved food first for themselves and the military, leaving only the now higher priced left-over available food for the Indians.



https://stophindudvesha.org/britains-biological-warfare-how-colonial-famines-made-india-the-worlds-diabetes-capital/

Chart above is a short example of how many Indians died from the British engineered famines in India.



Conclusion

1.    The British had plenty of food to eat even during the famines. But the British just watched the dying Indians while discussing why it was not a good idea to import food in for the starving Indians.

2.    Indians starved while English homeland had sufficient food to eat and sufficient raw material to feed their famous “Industrial Revolution

3.    The mighty “Industrial Revolution” in England was really fueled by the Indians/Products while the Indians were starving.

4.    British called themselves “Gentlemen”? Now I know that this is a lie!

5.    Very sad that Indians today know nothing of the British atrocities.

6.    Very sad that Indians today do not know of how great India was prior to the invasion and destruction by the Christians from Europe!

7.    Next chapter I’ll look at the $64 Trillion dollars stolen from India.

 

 

 

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Chapter 12j – India – British Engineered Famines

  Introduction ·          What is written in this chapter on India is yet again a perfect example of what the Christian Europeans did to t...