Based on England’s 16th and 17th century mortality rate, the British Empire caused 165 million excess deaths in India 🇮🇳 between 1881 and 1920. Extreme poverty increased from 23% in 1810 to more than 50% by the mid-20th century. According to historian Mike Davis, during 120 years of the British Raj, there were 31 famines. Before British rule, there had been 17 famines in the last 2000 years. The last famine caused by the British Empire, the Bengal famine, killed 4 million people.
We often speak and ruminate on the Holodomor caused by the Soviet Union leading to the death of 3.9 million Ukrainians, but we forget the atrocities committed by our upstanding allies the British 🇬🇧
