Great discussion of the British engineered famines in India by @arvindneela and @kansaratva on @AtharvaForum. The famines were engineered by British policy, designed to kill/displace millions of Indians and reduce the threat of an armed revolt like 1857.
Most illuminating is the discussion about the Great Madras Famine (1876-1878). Engineered a few decades after India was brought under the control of the British crown (after the suppression of the 1857 revolt), this famine killed 9-10 millions of Indians.
In 2026-27, we shall be marking an important 150 year anniversary of this mass genocide of Indians done under the aegis of British Raj. What will we do in India to remember this monumental event?
10 million people died. Do you even know who in your own families perished then?
10 million people died. Do you even know who in your own families perished then?
Unless people make this personal: about their own families, their own communities, their own nation.. they will not do justice to the memory of the ancestors who perished. Or to the memory of their ancestors who resisted, and who ultimately liberated India.
We have 5 years time.
We have 5 years time.
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