Hello everyone!
"History! Winston Churchill
said, will be kind to me.
For I intend to write it myself!" And he made sure he did.
For he was one of the biggest mass murderers of the 20th century
and yet is
the only one unlike Hitler, Mao or Stalin
to have escaped historical odium in the West.
This is not going to be an easy topic.
And I want you guys to be
prepared for it.
Today, I'm going to talk about
One of the biggest Holocausts, post-industrial revolution
committed by the British Raj or British rule on the
Indian subcontinent
Under the leadership of 
Prime Minister Winston Leonard
Spencer Churchill during WWII
Widely considered as one of the most
influential figures in 20th century, Churchill
remains popular in the Western world as
a strategist, war, correspondent author artist,
Defending Europe's liberal democracy from
The spread of Fascism! 
And this is gonna
be an important point that we come back to.
Amongst his less known accomplishments
is the infamous World War II Bengali Auschwitz
The Indian Holocaust or the Bengal Famine
Where in 6-7 million Indians
were deliberately starve to death
for NO logical reason by
Winston Churchill and the British Empire.
To give a small example of their hatred, blatant racism and
perceived white supremacy
against the Indians is:
This.
Signboards like these,
Calling "Dogs and Indians are not allowed"
Dehumanizing Indians, were a common occurrence outside establishments like
Schools, libraries, theaters, etc.
Under British India.
Another sign of his Disdain and Extreme Hostility
towards Indians was his hatred for Gandhi.
He wanted Gandhi to be laid down, strapped
trampled and brutally crushed by a giant
elephant with the British Viceroy on its back.
He called him a "subversive fanatic", a "half-naked fakir!"
He felt the same about on almost All Indians!
He called them "Beastly people with a Beastly Religion"
To give some perspective, the Bengal province, as you
can see was much bigger at the time.
It covered almost the entire Northern and
NorthEastern Indian subcontinent
And even today hosts about half the Indian subcontinent population.
It had faced multiple famines before.
Some natural and somebody to mismanagement.
But the Churchill caused famine took
intentional apathy and bad policy
making to a whole new level!
Now, because this region had faced famines
earlier, it allowed Imperial Apologists
to deny Churchill's contribution towards
this atrocity;
Until independent American and Indian researchers
observed  data about food ration and geological
reports from the time and made the
conclusion that this was the only one of
all of those famines which received
record-breaking rainfall at the time.
So the reason for
all of these atrocities had to be bad policy-making.
What also contributed to this
was nearly, A century of massive
de-industralization, exorbitant taxation, banning
of the local currency,
unreasonable exchange rates, straightaway ban on
exports.
Followed by systemic emptying of Food and Storage reserves.
The equivalent of this today, would be the
British coming here and banning the USD$
and forcing everyone to buy only Made-in-UK products.
Excessive exploitative continuous farming made large areas of
land infertile and bad irrigation techniques caused
further water logging only to make more
breeding grounds for Malaria!
At a time when Medicine, Health-care was not only non-affordable
it was also, Intentionally Inaccessible!
Starvation, malaria, refugee crisis
refugee crisis population displacement
debt-traps, human trafficking
prostitution, indentured servitude,
slavery, suicides were just some of the
attributes of the Bengali Holocaust!
I want you guys to be prepared for what
I'm going to show you now!
That's the reason, I have a sensitive content warning.
Because these images are
extremely powerful; I just wanted
everyone to be prepared in case it gets
gut-wrenching!
Nearly the entire outputs of India's
Cloth, Wool, Leather & Silk industries
were sold below cost or at unreasonably
high taxes to the Imperial Military.
By the end of 1942, Clothh prizes had more than tripled from the pre-war levels and
they had more than quadrupled by mid-1943.
And much of the goods left over for
civilian use were purchased by
speculators and hoarders.
This combined
with the unfortunate Japanese invasion
of Burma or Myanmar today resulted in a
refugee influx of half a million people
in the middle of the famine.
And their
arrival only increased demand for food,
causing further shortage of clothes and
medical aid causing more panic in a
region already in the brink of chaos and starvation.
Those who could beg
begged
work worked, those who could steel stole.
Some simply trafficked themselves to
survive
And vultures waiting for people
to literally drop dead was an
unfortunate but frequently visual in the
streets of the Bengal province.
Church's policies for rationing nearly
all of India's textile for British
military and allowing leftover textiles
to be sold domestically at a markup of
~400% caused something called as the
Cloth Famine!
Something that I wasn't even
aware of before I started research for this presentation.
During this Cloth Famine hundreds and
thousands of people committed suicide
because they didn't have fabric, enough
money to even buy some fabric to cover
themselves when they go out. 
Women chose to stay inside all day and only
went out if they could find other women
with which they could share enough
fabric to cover parts of
themselves not even the entirety.
This caused further unemployment and some of
the only things that people had in the
end to do was sell themselves.
And this caused a lot of human trafficking
problems and created one of the most
extensive human trafficking network
which still runs to the day.
Hundreds and thousands of kids were orphaned. People
sold their kids, often themselves for a mere few pounds of rice.
I want everyone to
just take a second and imagine
This was
an entirely avoidable tragedy and here's
another reason why?
Churchill's War cabinet's
shipping assignments made in August 1943,
shortly after some British officials
plead for famine relief, shows very clearly
Australian wheat flour and other
food resources traveling everywhere in
the Imperial Empire.
Travelling in the Middle East, traveling to Ceylon, Southern Africa,
Everywhere via India, stopping at
ports in India; but to India.
The War Cabinet ordered the build-up of stockpile of
wheat for feeding European civilians
after the war and after those people had
been liberated and for an unlikely but
possible invasion from Yugoslavia.
So 170,000 tons of Australian wheat
bypassed starving India, destined not
for consumption but for storage
The use of the world famine was also been in media
And although political spectators
observed that disproportionate amount of
war stockpiling meant that someone
somewhere was starving,
Churchill made it
his point to make sure that that somewhere was India!
Because he hated
Indians and he believed that the famine
was their own fault,
For "Breeding like Rabbits"
And I'm quoting him.
Now I know that these images are extremely graphic!
But they are crucial as they give a tiny
glimpse into the pages of history
that were
Unfortunately Intentionally Whitewashed!
For the sheer magnitude of
Cognitive Dissonance & Disdainful Duplicity
Exhibited by the so called Defenders of Democracy
against Nazi fascism was EVIDENT
When these White Supremacists
were conducting some of the most inhumane War Crimes themselves.
And FYI: They gassed people too!
Imposed poverty kills!
In short the Industrial Revolution and
Global Dominance of Great Britain was
sponsored by rapacious exploitation
plunder, massive demonization and a
genocide that lasted two centuries killing almost a billion Indians.
At the beginning of the 18th century,
The British economic historians documented
India's share of the world economy.
It was close to 23% 
As large as the entire Europe's economy at the time put together.
India supplied more than 1/4 of
the World's Gold, Spices & Silk.
The same spices & Silk in search of which
Christopher Columbus discovered a new
route to Caribbean, When he stopped at West Indies, 
thinking that it was India.
By the time the British had departed India,
India's global GDP contribution had dropped to a mere 3%!
The British robbed India of
nearly 45 trillion dollars between the
Year 1765 and 1938.
However it is estimated that if India had remained
free at the time with 24 percent of
global GDP it would have been at about
230 trillion dollars richer today.
And forget the moon, we could've solved cancer and left for Andromeda!
And the reason was simple.
India was governed for the benefit of Britain!
Britain's rise for 200 years was financed by
merciless taxation, de-industralization
and depredations in India.
And some of the biggest global problems left today:
The Iraq-Iran-Israel-Palestinian conflict
The India Pakistan Kashmir conflict
were also some of
the final intentional problems left behind by the British!
Churchill said that, 
"He had nothing to offer but Blood, Toil, Tears & Sweat!"
He never said whose?
Thank you!
