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There is no doubt that the British gave India many gifts for being part of their Empire. The most notable of course being the English language. However, there is equally no doubt that British policies directly or indirectly led to the death of crores of Indians, mostly from starvation. Flawed agricultural policies, forced conversion of land from food cultivation to cash crop cultivation, excessive taxation, plain old incompetence and a level of disinterest which chills the blood all led to this holocaust. There were three major famines during Queen Victorias reign over this country as Empress of India from 1876 to 1901. Yes, only 25 years of time. And the first of these was the great Madras Famine of 1876-78. The result of crop failure, this famine starved to death some 55 lakh Indians. And this is the British estimate. It began in what is today Tamil Nadu, before spreading to Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Maharastra and parts of Uttar Pradesh. During this famine, the Bri ....
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338 IT is no matter for surprise that partly from motives of misconceived self-interest and partly owing to the sense of security produced by the discontinuance of Indian propaganda work in England, the enemies of Indian aspirations should make a deliberate attempt to mislead English opinion regarding the trend of events in India. But we confess we were not prepared for the revelation made by the Under-Secretary of State’s recent speech in the House of Lords, of which a telegraphic summary appeared in our Reuter columns yesterday. The speech was delivered in reply to Lord Sydenham’s question asking what steps the Government of India was taking to protect the lives and properties of Europeans and loyal Indians in the country districts. The question itself suggested that the state of things in India was serious enough to call for extraordinary action, and it appears that among the assertions either made or quoted by Lord Sydenham in support of this view was one to the effec ....