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**babopeddy** · 10-30-2010, 06:45 AM

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.

First he was half American, his mother was American. Maybe that's part of it. As to spilling American blood, well, Germany declared war on the US so Churchill didn't really get us into the fight in Europe. Although he certainly wanted us to. However, he was willing to spill just about everyone's blood senselessly: Australians at Singapore, Australians at Tobruk, and the Canadians at Dieppe. He truly believed in the British Empire and I suspect in the superiority of the British race or the English speaking peoples.

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babopeddy Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 376 Senior Member	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. First he was half American, his mother was American. Maybe that's part of it. As to spilling American blood, well, Germany declared war on the US so Churchill didn't really get us into the fight in Europe. Although he certainly wanted us to. However, he was willing to spill just about everyone's blood senselessly: Australians at Singapore, Australians at Tobruk, and the Canadians at Dieppe. He truly believed in the British Empire and I suspect in the superiority of the British race or the English speaking peoples.
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