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**DoroKickcrofe** · 10-30-2010, 02:06 AM

BBC - Soutik Biswas's India: How Churchill 'starved' India

Thanks for the link, I'd not read that article, but being well read in Indian history, am aware of this fact. A lot of scholarly work has gone into the issue of famines sweeping through India during the British Raj, not just this particular one.

In fact, a few years ago, economist Amartya Sen (American of Indian-Bengali origin) was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his fundamental research that showed the link between presence of democracy and democractic institutions and absense of famine. India has never suffered famine post-independence to the extent it suffered during the British rule.

And I have nothing but contempt for Churchill for many reasons, this just adds to it. From an Indian perspective, he was a contemptuous SOB pretty much comparable to Hitler or anybody else. Of course, he is held in very high regard in America. I don't know why, because he was a bald-faced liar even to America and sought any and all ways to get Americans to fight for his country's behalf, spilling American blood and costing American treasure.

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DoroKickcrofe Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 436 Senior Member	BBC - Soutik Biswas's India: How Churchill 'starved' India Thanks for the link, I'd not read that article, but being well read in Indian history, am aware of this fact. A lot of scholarly work has gone into the issue of famines sweeping through India during the British Raj, not just this particular one. In fact, a few years ago, economist Amartya Sen (American of Indian-Bengali origin) was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for his fundamental research that showed the link between presence of democracy and democractic institutions and absense of famine. India has never suffered famine post-independence to the extent it suffered during the British rule. And I have nothing but contempt for Churchill for many reasons, this just adds to it. From an Indian perspective, he was a contemptuous SOB pretty much comparable to Hitler or anybody else. Of course, he is held in very high regard in America. I don't know why, because he was a bald-faced liar even to America and sought any and all ways to get Americans to fight for his country's behalf, spilling American blood and costing American treasure.
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