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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by haltingproblem on Sunday May 28, 2023 @09:54AM (#36104004)
No famines in India that resulted in mass deaths after 1947. If the difference was just governance, Indians vs. British, then the fault lies with the British. The Indian governments inherited British institutions in India but Indian leaders lacked administrative experience. They also did not have the resources of the British empire and had to face the mass horrors and disruption of partition.

All this lays the culpability at the door of the British for the Bengal famnine.

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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by concordDance on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:20AM (#36104219)
Wasn't the green revolution shortly after that?

Which just leaves a <20 year window where a famine was possible. And British India had plenty of gaps of that size.

I won't say it's literally zero evidence that famine was much more frequent under British rule, but its not very strong given the obvious confounder.

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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:03AM (#36104073)
There was a famine in Bangladesh in 1974 that may have killed 1.5 million people.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangladesh_famine_of_1974

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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by polygamous_bat on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:09AM (#36104116)
Which was also caused by the atrocities of the (arguably colonial) Pakistani military during the Bangladeshi liberation war.

If you are trying to argue self-governance can also cause famines, this isn't an example to be used.

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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by cppenjoyer on Sunday May 28, 2023 @10:12AM (#36104134)
That's about Bangladesh, not Bengal. Bangladesh is a neighboring country of India.
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Re:Churchill’s Famine: The killing of three million is a sto... by ralfd on Sunday May 28, 2023 @11:07AM (#36104639)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/IndiaPolitica...

Bangladesh was part of British Indian Empire and the Bengal region is partly in it.

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