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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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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.