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@superdooperoofer8941
4 жыл бұрын
Do the irish famine
@rid71k
4 жыл бұрын
Ak fazlul hoque was a Muslim. Please fact check
@phoenixfats1190
4 жыл бұрын
Hurricane?
@borntowild480
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for bringing out the reality of British Raj to the world
@jwenting
4 жыл бұрын
that's the same deal Audible gives to all new subscribers, nothing special about it.
@newbeginings4039
4 жыл бұрын
I was eating my same old boring lunch when watching this. My lunch is no longer boring
@ianosaurus27
4 жыл бұрын
Dinner for me 😅🤤
@Alpine5858
4 жыл бұрын
My grandma's dad has to sell off her eldest sister just to afford rice to feed his family
@bobbiscub
4 жыл бұрын
I totally agree... Makes you really appreciate everything you have, doesn't it?
@Pavlos_Charalambous
4 жыл бұрын
In Greece a classic thing that moms say to their children when they don't eat their food is " what you mean you don't like your food? little kids at your age in Africa are starving - be thankful for what you have!! " 😏
@bobbiscub
4 жыл бұрын
@@Pavlos_Charalambous Hahaha! Here in America I heard the exact same thing growing up! It's wonderful how things like travel the boundaries of language!
@firefighter6291
4 жыл бұрын
Sponsored by KFC. Learn about one of the greatest man-made famines in history.
@briandonovan1584
4 жыл бұрын
Well played, Mr. Evans.
@rsmith6366
3 жыл бұрын
Don't forget when KFC ran out of chicken in the UK. They just didn't have any chicken, at all. And they remained open.
@LisboaCigar
3 ай бұрын
If only the colonel gave a shit about bengal
@DdrtAddh
4 жыл бұрын
A very important history to remember.
@kingkenny7393
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing when you just discovered that India bengals famines was because a population could not be self sustains due to natural disasters but was dependent on another poor nation rice grains (Burma) but 🇬🇧 couldn’t provide this due to 🇯🇵 Asia conquest plans . Ww2 history should be taught in school especially in 🇬🇧
@nkmviolin
2 жыл бұрын
The disaster that unfolded in British ruled Bengal during World War 2 has been largely forgotten. This is a holocaust that wiped out 3 million people from the face of this earth. I do not understand how Winston Churchill is any different from the Nazis. He was a racist war criminal, not a hero.
@ilovecookies2532
2 жыл бұрын
Britain would have won the war anyway
@waitwhat3547
2 жыл бұрын
@@ilovecookies2532 except it was south asian countries like india and Pakistan that provided nearly 4 million soldiers to fight the war, no man power = no victory
@ilovecookies2532
2 жыл бұрын
@@waitwhat3547 Yes, it wasn't because of Churchill
@nkmviolin
2 жыл бұрын
@@waitwhat3547 very well said.
@Furudal
4 жыл бұрын
The way I read Winston‘s The Second World War it comes down to one issue: shipping As little as they had for military operations, Hitler and imperial Japan is as much to blame as the weather.
@Aldarinn
Жыл бұрын
Only the British are to blame. Deflections are pointless here. All they had to do was to not build an empire to begin with.
@EarthForces
9 ай бұрын
@Aldarinn only naive fools with this statement are trying to put contemporary politics to what was a different time period and its circumstances. It is like those who said let us ban slavery but the time period they were asking for was like more than a thousand years ago.
@cabbyb111
4 жыл бұрын
This is one of many reasons of why Churchill isn't the untouchable hero so many make him out to be.
@crackajacka87
4 жыл бұрын
I'd disagree... I'd put this blame on a series of unfortunate events but mainly at the world war that was taking place on it's doorstep. The Japanese were closing in and the British did a scorched earth tactic to stop their advance along with the blight and the cyclone lead to this catastrophe and Churchill did try to send relief but to little avail with the Americans even declining to help so what was Churchill to do? Also the war on Britains doorstep had Churchills attention more on Europe than the rest of the empire. People prefer to blame someone rather than accept that at times, life can be very hard and this is not like the Irish famine where the British could of helped the Irish but chose not to because of the dislike towards the Irish and Churchill had a lot on his plate... If I had to judge a person responsible with this, it would be more down to the governor of the area as it was their job to ensure peace and stability in the region and he could of clearly of done more but seems he did very little and even downplayed the famine to probably not look bad.
@helpmeget1ksubswith1videop72
4 жыл бұрын
May good fortune be part of you today and tomorrow. Lovely month!
@stephjovi
4 жыл бұрын
How is KFC still not sponsoring every Simon channel 🤣
@ethansagastume5462
4 жыл бұрын
Who says they aren't? Allegedly
@arik6774
3 жыл бұрын
My grandpa was born in Barisal district in 1940s Bengal. Thanks for making this video. There is a rhyme on ww2 in bengali which actually mocks the british. It says, Sa Ra Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni, bom feleche japani, bomer bhetor ghokhra shap, british koy bapre bap!. It means, the japanese are bombing and there are king cobras inside bombs and british are afraid of it. And Tiger of Bengal, AK Fazlul Haque was a muslim.
@iatsechannel5255
4 жыл бұрын
Fascinating. Never knew about this. Thanks!
@mrshrek362
7 ай бұрын
The 'bengal famine' is not the correct way to describe it. It obfuscates the fact that it was more of a genocide caused by the british empire.
@user-el3iw6rz3m
2 жыл бұрын
I wish Queen Elizabeth would’ve made an apology on the behalf of the monarchy she represented. So many lives lost & so many had to endure much suffering to create the wealth & opulence they enjoy.
@Biodyn3758
Ай бұрын
Churchill is the culprit behind this ‘famine’ . Famine is an understatement, as it was man made and that man was Churchill, PM at the time. His remarks about the people dying there are despicable ‘A sturdy Greek is better than a starving Indian’ alluding to the war… What a hero eh?
@Uaene
3 жыл бұрын
2:04 That's Dhaka (modern day Bangladesh), not Calcutta. It actually says Dacca (British-colonial spelling of Dhaka) Ayurvedia Pharmacy in the sign in that picture in both Bangla and English.
@arnabsanyal6603
3 жыл бұрын
It' was its Kolkata Branch. There are many shops like that in all over India like Khulna Diary in Bongaon, you can find Dhaka Hindu Hotels almost everywhere in West Bengal. In Hyderabad India there is a Karachi Bakery and in Karachi/Hyderabad in Pakistan there's a Bombay Bakery.
@HistoryandHeadlines
4 жыл бұрын
So, what does everyone think? Was it a natural disaster or a man-made catastrophe?
@5ryans
4 жыл бұрын
A natural disaster that was made worse by a ongoing conflict. The hurricane and the blight it spread destroyed swathes of rice crop. Coupled with the fact that the Empire was already struggling to feed Britain, Greece and other parts within and without, it is of no surprise that the disaster unfolded as it did. Not to mention that the countries that were relied upon such as the Philippines, Singapore and Burma to provide rice incase of a famine were currently occupie by the Japanese. And while Britain was to increase the supply of grain, wheat and other supplies to Bengal from places like Iran and Australia (while battling the fact of the limit of the amount of ships they possessed as well keeping an eye out for Japanese submarines) it could not keep up with the demand as more and more crops continued to fail.
@ScoriacTears
4 жыл бұрын
Smallpox, grain fungus, cyclone, famine and a cast system!
@NikhilChaudhariimbevda
4 жыл бұрын
British induced one..clear and simple..
@NikhilChaudhariimbevda
4 жыл бұрын
@John Higgins lol it could have been reduced significantly if the stockpiles would be kept in india rather than sent to Europe..simple arithmetic is not that difficult..English Raj didn't bother to do so...people died..millions..
@majordan7729
4 жыл бұрын
@@5ryans War makes virtually everything worse!
@jessejoyce1295
4 жыл бұрын
The catalyst for this famine is not all on the British government, and it’s true that it occurred in wartime, however I cannot help but be reminded of the Great Irish Famine a century before. Ultimately the millions that died were under the care of the British government, no matter the cause of the famine originally, a failure to send relief means that they ultimately bear responsibility. Very sad
@ladytalksalot4097
4 жыл бұрын
Also, the Brits claimed it was the job of the "free market" to save those starving, but the market wasn't "free". It was strangled by the British exporting all non-potato crops and regulations preventing the Irish from keeping what food they needed to survive.
@swajanbanik7666
3 жыл бұрын
It's good to see providing information from a neutral point of view.
@its2ni
4 жыл бұрын
Great analysis of the research!
@nickwilliams2745
4 жыл бұрын
So same as Irish potato famine-bad situation that the British could’ve helped but instead they made it worse
@jhfdhgvnbjm75
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone would have made it worse, had the Irish been self governing at the time they would likely have done the same things, there is a big wave of blaming things that happened under British rule on Britain rather then on the people of the time. Had it been the French it would have been the same, had it been the Americans it would have been the same, Had it been the Chinese it would have been the same not because it was any one national trait but because it was the times and the people of those times.
@nickwilliams2745
4 жыл бұрын
L L never said it was a British trait, but fuck off with the Irish would’ve done the same if they were self governing-only reason they had to rely on potatoes was bc the brits forced em too
@jhfdhgvnbjm75
4 жыл бұрын
@Marco EIRE Because of ecconomics and the people at the time, its called historical context.
@davidkugel
4 жыл бұрын
I honestly believe that if Queen Victoria had known about the Irish Famine of the 1840s she would have tried to alleviate it. Her ministers kept the news from her. The horses of Britain had oats to eat while a million Irish people starved to death.
@melz6625
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidkugel she also was a drug dealer forcing opium on the Chinese to subjugate them. How naive are you to absolve the ruler of this ruthless empire of her guilt.
@annescholey6546
4 жыл бұрын
Theories have it Churchill wanted to starve Gandhi's supporters to stave off calls for independence
@Heisenberg882
4 жыл бұрын
wouldn't that make them want Independence even more?
@araincs
4 жыл бұрын
Those theories are little more than blood libel against the british by indian nationalists
@muhithossain7312
4 жыл бұрын
@@araincs Conspiracy Theory or not, the fact that Churchill was a racist piece of shit that hated everyone who wasn't White still stands, and that ultimately grants more weight to the conspiracies surrounding the famine.
@araincs
4 жыл бұрын
@@muhithossain7312 Yea dont get me wrong churchill was a fat war mongering pervert but the famine really was caused by combination of japan taking burma (cutting off food imports) and crop failure from disease. At most its possible to blame the british for not making more effort to bring in food aid but it was wartime afterall.
@RichardBrown7k
4 жыл бұрын
It was already accepted that India would become independent after the end of the war.
@nickmiller8131
4 жыл бұрын
More videos on British india!
@vishnusr4842
4 жыл бұрын
There are tons of stuff that could be discussed here
@vishnusr4842
4 жыл бұрын
Like years of revolts, and suffering
@TheAmmu21
2 жыл бұрын
For us Indian Winston Churchill is no less than Hilter, the British Empire built itself on our resources and we fought their wars at our own detriment.
@charananekibalijaun8837
2 жыл бұрын
That's your narrative right there.
@charananekibalijaun8837
Жыл бұрын
@@descendedofrigvedicclans2216 he killed more people than Hitler? Who in their right mind would claim something so stupid? It's totally baseless. The whole idea of Winston Churchill genociding his very own powerhouse India is ridiculous. It's laughable. It shows the delusion of the average Indian who believes this nonsense. You guys are being brainwashed in your schools
@annecollins8092
4 жыл бұрын
Guess what, it could happen right here. There has been an incredible attack on our current food supply. Everyone should be stocking up right now, so they can be in a position to help their own community. Buy from your local farmers and butchers. Don't let big government and business run them off.
@JanjayTrollface
4 жыл бұрын
18:50 Ahah! I was waiting for this, started to think you were going to mention it *8 )
@nikhilpatil321
3 жыл бұрын
When the British government officials reported the famine situation to Prime Minister Winston Churchill. His apathetic response was "Why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?"
@Thurnmourer
3 жыл бұрын
Frankly, when you are in the middle of a World War, you can't really act surprised when a dude just doesn't give a fuck about death when his mind is far more focused on another matter.
@Dk-ie4te
3 жыл бұрын
@@Thurnmourer 3 million people were dead, World still mourns for what happened to Jews in Germany,what about other ethnicities with whom same things happened.
@mbormann6046
4 жыл бұрын
This could make Churchill the biggest mass murderer in history
@kevinbourke1847
4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@BlutoandCo
4 жыл бұрын
Nothing about how various states within India refused to send aid/food and had to be forced to send it. Nothing about the aid/food that was sent being stolen and sold on the black market or the high corruption where food got diverted to family and friends. Nothing about the 500,000 refugees arriving and needing food. Nothing about the Japanese bombing, the ships lost, the railways being diverted 3rd So much missing. It wasn't one single thing that caused it, so one single thing can be blamed for it.
@ritaDas-xl4kz
4 жыл бұрын
As a bengali,thanks for making this video,i am learning indian history of class 7 as i am a 12 year old,thanks now i know this before class/grade 8 thanks again!
@thomasfrank280
4 жыл бұрын
Do discuss this in class and try to read the works quoted here. All the best for the future.
@ritaDas-xl4kz
4 жыл бұрын
@@thomasfrank280 Thanks.
@nlwilson4892
4 жыл бұрын
I hope you have good teachers because this video covers issues more complicated than would be expected for your age. Some teachers get upset when you know more than them :)
@ritaDas-xl4kz
4 жыл бұрын
@@nlwilson4892 Ya i have good teachers,they actually sometimes ask us to tell stuff and actually when things are complicated they tell us to see the things,teachers are good ☺☺👍👍👍
@geekbeer5846
4 жыл бұрын
It's so awesome that you're so young and so interested in a channel like this. I hope your education goes well & your deeper interest in history / workings of the world take you places 👍
@gaylonjohnson904
4 жыл бұрын
Keep up the great content Simon and Co. 🙌🏾👍🏾
@TheJediCaptain
4 жыл бұрын
Biographics video on Danny.
@trapp998
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheJediCaptain but he’s lived all his life in simon’s basement
@Pavlos_Charalambous
4 жыл бұрын
May I make a suggestion? The 1941 Greek famine, it was man made, connected to the Bengal one with both the axis and the British blaming each other for who is most to blame for
@kapuagutchen8171
3 жыл бұрын
England took the food from India to feed its own self in Europe and its Army. Food was grown in India but didn't feed Indians in 1940s..England didn't wanna take responsibility for this because they are having issues with Food.
@jimjones8736
2 жыл бұрын
@@kapuagutchen8171 Why don't you blame the Japanese equally for invading Burma...
@jimjones8736
2 жыл бұрын
Ehhh.... I don't think the Brits invaded Greece. In fact we helped you gain your independence.
@niqerfaguettranykyke
2 жыл бұрын
@@jimjones8736 because Japan being part of the Axis isnt supposed to hamper the source of nourishment for it's enemies? Also your comment is exactly what the OP meant.
@jimjones8736
2 жыл бұрын
@@niqerfaguettranykyke If I could understand what you are saying I would reply. I can't, so I won't. Cheers.
@allanvijuvarghese6011
4 жыл бұрын
Fazlul Huq was actually a Muslim, but it's true he was replaced by a member of an Islamic party. Also, it's Bihar, not Bishar. Otherwise, pretty good video👍🏾.
@AClericalRhino
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I was a little confused when he said Fazlul Huq was a Hindu.
@mahmudulislam9535
4 жыл бұрын
exactly my point
@PranavKSingh
4 жыл бұрын
Bihar was not part of Bengal during 1943 famine..it became separate state in 1905
@darrinscott6612
4 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, someone actually covered this in a factual, non-agenda-driven way? This is why I love this channel.
@arnaldoteodorani277
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Darrin. I was the researcher and author for this video (you can check the name in the credits at the very end) and I was striving for a balanced view. Thank you for your comment, it reassured me that the video was indeed non-partisan. Have a great day!
@jeanpierrereynoso-fournel4378
4 жыл бұрын
In the course of human events, when are there really non-agenda driven ways?
@darrinscott6612
4 жыл бұрын
@@jeanpierrereynoso-fournel4378 Typhoons don't have agendas. also, my point was about the coverage of the incident, not the incident itself. I'm just glad that someone managed to cover this in a way that wasn't propaganda.
@muffinnman
3 жыл бұрын
@@arnaldoteodorani277 By balanced do you mean giving equal credence to white people who ruled over brown people and thought they were inferior?
@baconcatbug
3 жыл бұрын
@@muffinnman You comment just proves the need for agenda-less content.
@ignitionfrn2223
3 жыл бұрын
1:25 - Chapter 1 - A history of famine 4:20 - Chapter 2 - The famine of 50 10:15 - Mid roll ads 11:30 - Chapter 3 - Supply & demand 18:50 - Chapter 4 - Unsettled blame
@agnivodas
4 жыл бұрын
I'm from Kolkata, and it's lovely to see the forgotten history of my city getting covered. Please make a video on the birth of the city of Kolkata as well, as that too is a highly controversial topic. Thanks!
@ritaDas-xl4kz
4 жыл бұрын
Same
@ArghyaDas44
4 жыл бұрын
Same.
@chriswall27
4 жыл бұрын
Great comment, I've spent a little time in your home town and the Sundarbans and as a British person this was brought up often when I was talking to the locals.
@vishnusr4842
4 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure whether the Famine of 1943 was caused by this... But I have learnt in school that most Famines after Colonisation of India by the British were caused directly by shortage of Food crop production. Farmers were forced to either sell their lands to the British Government or do cultivation of crops according to their (British) interests. And the British in India were chiefly interested in trade more than ruling. So they demanded most farmable land for the cultivation of Cotton, Indigo, Jute, etc. Thus food production halted in a lot of places, and Famines emerged.
@--enyo--
4 жыл бұрын
NappyHeaded_ZeroCombs They explain that a bit in the video. Go back to 17:00 and listen from there.
@shellymay-cutpastememories6667
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent research done for this one-such a complicated event. I think one of the most disheartening aspects of this story is that, while the people were starving and selling their children, those who had resources to share instead exploited the starving people, buying their land and possessions rather than giving them food and assistance. Humanity was no where to be found it seems.
@rodchallis8031
4 жыл бұрын
hoarding may not have been, at least in all cases, as evil as it may appear to us now. While we can look back and see an end to the famine, and know how bad it got, those in the time didn't. It would be natural, not knowing how bad it was going to get, nor how long it was going to last, to hoard food against those unknowns if one had the ability to do so. Speculators, on the other hand, are clearly in the evil side of the ledger.
@olivertaltynov9220
2 жыл бұрын
Excellent research? You are modest :-)
@AzadHind572
Жыл бұрын
That's the reality of capitalist culture
@mrnobodytheuser2950
Жыл бұрын
@@AzadHind572 Holodomor is so much better ;)
@kevinrwhooley9439
4 жыл бұрын
I hope they do a video on the Irish Potato Famine as well.
@choughed3072
4 жыл бұрын
Include the Cornish potato famine as well, I know it happened on the British mainland and thus gets ignored because bad things don't happen to the British we only do bad things. Granted the Irish famine was worse but only a lunatic would treat famines as a point scoring game right?
@Samm815
4 жыл бұрын
A natural disaster made worse by incompetent politicians and bureaucrats.
@scarletcrusade77
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe they can do the IRA bombings on civilian targets too.
@davidcollins8574
4 жыл бұрын
England was a scourge on the planet for a long time. Just with nice manners
@LancasterResponding
4 жыл бұрын
You mean the Irish Banana Famine?
@MagicBoxluc4
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for calling us ‘Bengali” instead of Indian or Bangladeshi. With the shared culture, Bengali makes way more sense.
@hamidhamidi3134
Жыл бұрын
It was strange. anywhere Britain ruled other people the Famine killed people by their millions, from India to Ireland etc. very strange.
@CB-fz3li
11 ай бұрын
So two places out of the many that were part of the empire.
@georgehetty7857
9 ай бұрын
British rule also increased living standards , life expectancy, population, unfortunately you can’t have it both ways!
@Naruto-zm5ck
8 ай бұрын
@georgehetty7857 bruh 🤡 u r an entire circus
@wendyu5076
3 ай бұрын
@@georgehetty7857that was only applicable for the British only, ofcourse to provide for to their EMPIRE they had to improve and increase transportation and labour, so its all for their own good not that they were there to make indians life any better 🫤 So you saying that " can't have both way" doesn't apply to indians , the cost of so called good living standards was to much for the poor indian, Bengal famine wasn't the only atrocity, we have more in the books , jaliawala baag , madras famine etc.
@georgehetty7857
3 ай бұрын
@@wendyu5076 Bollocks ……old chap!
@bobbiscub
4 жыл бұрын
Makes you really appreciate everything you have, doesn't it?
@MoizCOUK
3 жыл бұрын
it makes you think why world remembers hitler's genocide of jews but not british genocides of india
@darkscratcher52
3 жыл бұрын
@@MoizCOUK British vibes They hide everything
@Dr.SyedSaifAbbasNaqvi
2 жыл бұрын
@@MoizCOUK history is written by the victors. Churchill was as evil as Hitler.
@levistoner
4 жыл бұрын
I am 44 years old, well educated and well read, especially on WWII, but I had never, ever heard of this tragedy. More research must be undertaken, pictures of kids with bloated bellies and starving eyes hits me like a sucker punch in my soul.
@shindari
4 жыл бұрын
Neither have I. But nor am I surprised by that. World War II overshadows everything that happened between 1939 and 1945.
@NikhilChaudhariimbevda
4 жыл бұрын
You should listen to Shashi Tharoor's Britain owes repriations to India speech in Britain itself..you will get a fair idea..
@frozenhorse8695
4 жыл бұрын
What hits me like a sucker punch in my soul. Is the way the media went from referring to the world wars, as number 1 and 2, insted of first and second. Makes it sound like people expect a number 3 on shelf any day. 1. and 2. if you would be so kind.
@eirikbelisarius1100
4 жыл бұрын
It's a well known historic event. It's better known than most other famines of the same magnitude. The reason it is an ongoing debate is because it plays a political role today in Indian nationalism and Churchill bashing in general. I don't understand the need to hang this around the neck of Churchill. To manage a world war is very demanding. I doubt he had much control over what happened in Bengal. One must not forget that the Japanese occupied Burma at the time, a traditional breadbasket of Bengal and in effect had control of the shipping in the Bengal Bay. This was probably a perfect storm of drought, disease, war, bad communication, poverty and incompetence.
@yehlamhaa
4 жыл бұрын
@@eirikbelisarius1100 Bengal was and is a Bread Basket... It's a fertile Plain fed by big perennial rivers and called Rice Bowl of India... It has sufficient fish production/day to feed the entire British population for 1 month..
@imonghosh912
4 жыл бұрын
As a Bengali from Calcutta, let me tell you, the hatred Churchill had for us was equivalent to what Hitler had for Jews. Bengal was notoriously opposed to the British rule and saw the most violent insurgencies to gain independence. And Churchill hated us, all that "beastly people with a beastly religion" comments are well documented. The video omits many instances of food supplies which came from Australia and were in Calcutta docks which were then diverted to the middle East for war efforts in the Balkans. Churchill only sought for help when the worse had already happened, although conscious stricken British officials were asking for help for months. So many here do believe that Churchill seeking help was just an eye wash. The real tragedy is, Hitler and the Nazis are vilified for putting 6 million Jews in the gas chambers, yet Churchill is venerated as a hero inspite of starving almost the same number of Bengalis to death. Sooner or later though, the world will know. Thanks a lot for the video. 🙏
@vinay7397
Жыл бұрын
The lower classes died in the Bengal famine, they sold their land and property to richer Indians for next to nothing for a bag of rice. Don't pretend all the Bengalis were dying.
@shikharagrawal1797
10 ай бұрын
The Brits were no better than the Nazis, Churchill was no better than Hitler and what these imperialists did was no less the the holocaust.
@paolorossi784
26 күн бұрын
@@vinay7397stop lying, the British govt got food from India and stockpiled their reserves and also supplied their army at the expense of Indians. The selling of land to the wealthy was secondary to the hunger that had rocked Bengal after the British chose to starve them. How did you expect the poor to survive when the only thing they had to exchange for food was land? You must have a low digit 1Q to believe your bs. More than 3 million indians lost their lives.
@vinay7397
26 күн бұрын
@paolorossi784 impossible for 95 percent of Indians to have a rational conversation.
@ryx007
4 жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm a Bengali who had ancestors who succumbed to the famine and this video was posted on my birthday this year!
As a Bengali, thanks for covering this topic. Although I've already read about this in history classes its still nice to hear Simon speak about it.
@akashpandey1059
4 жыл бұрын
Siraj-ud-Daula was defeated in the Battle of Plassey in 1757 by East India Company and the Company received the rights of Revenue and Tax collection of Bengal after Battle of Buxar in 1764, so any taxation after that was done by the greedy East India Company
@marksnow7569
4 жыл бұрын
Except that the E.I.C. initially collected taxes through the existing network of local officials. In 1770 they sent out British supervisors who began discovering uncomfortable truths, such as that when the Calcutta government ordered a tax cut due to the famine, some of those local collectors went on taking the old amount and pocketed most of the difference for themselves.
@akashpandey1059
4 жыл бұрын
@@marksnow7569 I don't know what you said about events in 1770 is well documented but there is no record of a famine before EIC taking control. If there is anything documented and available online please tag.
@kmseyam7897
3 жыл бұрын
3:02 Siraj-ud-doulla was murdered by The Brits and their fellows in 1757, after the battle of Plassey. The British East India Company ruled Bengal from 1757 onwards. Please update the video.
@Organic.Mechanic
4 жыл бұрын
But isn’t it the government’s job to take care of the people whom they rule?
@KishoreMathers
4 жыл бұрын
not necessarily. an imperial establishment is basically an entrepreneurial governance. so, in times like those, it would have been easy for the colonial britain to justify that the welfare of those they expected to profit from was secondary to the profit itself. 1943 was when england started to kick hitler in the nuts and for them, winning the war carried the utmost importance, the frontlines of which demanded essential supplies.
@misterbb4515
4 жыл бұрын
@@KishoreMathers you can find numerous white dudes in the comment section justifying the deaths because Britain was apparently protecting the world
@KishoreMathers
4 жыл бұрын
@@misterbb4515 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@rishisaxena7863
4 жыл бұрын
its not necessary british were crony capitalists they mean to profit . well today also if u see the more india becomes capitalist the more poor people will suffer like migration of indian labourers 2020 (man made disaster)
@omgitsher220
3 жыл бұрын
well technically yess, however the British were not in India to rule them they were there for their economic advantage of Britain. They gave no shit about Indian people and treated them worse than animals
@UraRenge103
4 жыл бұрын
Why can't people just admit that it might be ALL of those things. The october cyclone, brown dot fungus, Japanese occupation of Burma, inflation of rice prices w/o a corresponding increase in wages, mismanagement by the British, AND the large population of Bengal.
@livingin1984
4 жыл бұрын
Thats what im thinking...
@misterbb4515
4 жыл бұрын
Yes it is widely accepted. Most Indians take all these accounts into consideration. But it's Brits who fail to see the dark side of Churchill and the British War Cabinet.
@jeffk464
4 жыл бұрын
@@misterbb4515 Well they did have a war to win, nobody would have been better off if Imperial Japan and the Nazi's won the war. Its not like they were trying to starve people out, they had a lot of complex issues to try to figure out and manage.
@speakingwithoutnet
4 жыл бұрын
Most reasonable people do.
@shimantohassan1414
4 жыл бұрын
In my understanding, almost every sane persons consider all of these actions as causes. But, academic people tend to debate over which comes first or which caused more. So that in a different or future scenario, they can prioritize which "HOLES to FILL FIRST". But obviously without any doubt, every Hole has to be filled.
@gabbyn978
4 жыл бұрын
I am fairly sure that one day, there will be a discussion about the pandemic of 2019 to 2022, that is hotly debating the question if the high death toll was caused by the nature of this specific new sickness, poverty, overpopulation, or sheer negligence by the politicians... this topic is never easy to answer.
@dtaylor10chuckufarle
3 жыл бұрын
Damn good point.
@ayanomar1408
3 жыл бұрын
I would highly say the latter and sheer ignorance and fear mongering media😔. one day I will tell my daughter how I couldnt find One box of diaper or formula this past year.
@SlapstickGenius23
3 жыл бұрын
Does the Xi admin cause it?
@therealturdferguson8355
3 жыл бұрын
@@SlapstickGenius23 by then it will be known as the Xi Dynasty lol
@tenaturner3942
2 жыл бұрын
The current pandemic clearly originated in China. Most likely from bats imported from the SARS caves and brought to the Wuhan level 4 biohazard lab. My guess is that human error let loose the pandemic due to sloppy handling and human error. There are about 100 species of bats in China, all carrying viruses.
@jadhavkapil
3 жыл бұрын
As an Indian youth the pictures of history like these keep me working to make progress for my country. We will never let this happen again.
@Biodyn3758
Ай бұрын
Well if you dont let english in your country again, then you ll be fine.
@Tom_Samad
4 жыл бұрын
To summarise: all these famines in Bengal were created by bad weather but were hugely exacerbated by British and local policies.
@Cythan
4 жыл бұрын
also the war was one of the biggest things
@saifchowdhury3581
3 жыл бұрын
Pretty much yeah instead of a dozen thousand people dying, millions died. So 100 times increase in casualty. So horribly exacerbated by local and British officials.
@leagueofdead569
2 жыл бұрын
@@saifchowdhury3581 you're completely forgetting that this happened during a world war. The policies had an impact but the war also contributed majorly to the number of deaths.
@breezemont1161
Жыл бұрын
@@leagueofdead569 the brits even stopped food aid from US, canada and Indians over seas to bengal during famine. Churchill stockpiled the food of bengal in UK and asked that Indian deserve famine for breeding like rats and why Gandhi hasn't died yet? Can't beleive people still defend that monster.
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
@@leagueofdead569 You're right. The key is to figure out roughly how many of these deaths were the officials responsible for.
@himanshusingh-er7dd
4 жыл бұрын
Wiston Churchill was a demon ......
@nickjung7394
3 жыл бұрын
The Indian subcontinent is free because of him. What do you think would have happened if Japan had won? Read about "the rape of Nanking"
@nickjung7394
3 жыл бұрын
@@CombatHD3 well, you will have your wish before long. China has its eye on the whole subcontinent as does the more militant elements of Islam who want a return to Mutual rule. With your name, I wish you luck. Incidentally, Indian independence had been a foregone conclusion in the early 1930s; WW2 delayed this with the full agreement of Congress. The Axis had nothing to do with it.
@rishav_killerx6011
3 жыл бұрын
@@nickjung7394 Indian subcontinent was free bcoz of Churchill??? LMFAOOO don't need to spread Fake History, The Other Politicians urge Churchill to leave India, Also Britishers cant Handle the Fights between Hindu and Muslims, so they made the Partition, The Britishers who did Divide and Rule by spreading hate now it's solved by Stupid Partition
@HistoryEnthusiast1919
Ай бұрын
@@nickjung7394Basically your argument is one evil is better than the other evil. Stupid argument doesn’t justify anything. Churchill was a war criminal and a genocider!
@yt.personal.identification
4 жыл бұрын
If you have the means, you have the responsibility.
@chrisdixon2486
4 жыл бұрын
Marcus Aurelius ?? Not sure if I spelled it right! But he is the 1st documented saying that!
@yt.personal.identification
4 жыл бұрын
@@chrisdixon2486 I am not sure I can attribute the quote accurately, unfortunately - that's why I didn't bother. Needless to say, it was someone far wiser than I will ever be.
@eatenbyghouls1849
4 жыл бұрын
I dont imagine this will be a controversial comments section lol
@JSkyGemini
3 жыл бұрын
Nope, pretty sure there's a rare consensus here. Just horrible, and heartbreaking ...words fall short.
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
@@JSkyGemini I don't really see the consensus you're talking about.
@RuneRealmRPG
Жыл бұрын
fkin churchill was who else
@tatai1001
2 жыл бұрын
Millions of Jewish people were killed and there is no confusion regarding the perps,millions of Indians were killed,"It is difficult to pinpoint who did it"..
@tammy7087
4 жыл бұрын
The researchers are thorough. Simon is articulate. These factors produce good content. Well done !
@abhilashdeo7396
4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant video 👍 Love how they explore as many perspectives as possible... ....
@gorgonchang7352
3 жыл бұрын
British genocide when spoken with British accent would miraculously turn it into "it's a tragedy". Nice, just nice. Also, maybe that's why Tony Blair is never persecuted for crimes against humanity for Iraq invasion. It's his accent. If he has Arabic accent, that would be another story entirely.
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
Yup, two standards of justice; one merciful for the wealthy/powerful. while another, more harsh standard for the rest of us plebs.
@callumstewart4285
4 жыл бұрын
'Printing money is never a good idea'- as it led to the inflation that meant they couldn't afford their food. Yet here we are in 2020 printing the most in recorded history. We truly never learn 😪
@rsmith6366
3 жыл бұрын
In post ww2 Germany the printing of money caused such a high rate of inflation that one man recalls sitting down for a coffee only to find out afterwards that the money in his pocket is now useless.
@hooliganic2506
3 жыл бұрын
Printing money really is fine if you raise taxes as well, at least if you have a fiat currency.
@waitwhat3547
2 жыл бұрын
@@rsmith6366 post ww1 you mean?
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
@@hooliganic2506 That doesn't really solve the problem, not in the long term.
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
@@rsmith6366 That sounds more like the aftermath of WW1. You sure you're not talking about the interwar period?
@shraddhamishra301
3 жыл бұрын
Even if they deny their villanous roles in Bengal....how can people think them Innocents....how the world can forget their deeds in almost every part of the world...including their own neighbour...the Ireland.
@jdubo1998
3 жыл бұрын
Because, news flash, there was a world war going on. Everyone was rationing food. India just got the worst of it.
@shraddhamishra301
3 жыл бұрын
That "just" is big....for many countries. And they cannot be forgiven, "just" because it was something everyone was doing...
@jdubo1998
3 жыл бұрын
@@shraddhamishra301 Sucks to suck. War ain't sunshine and rainbows, some countries get lucky some don't, shut up and suck it up.
@shraddhamishra301
3 жыл бұрын
Why so pissed? No one is blaming you. Murderers are getting blamed, because the countries that suffered were not involved in the first place in the fight. Some bastards wanted to up their power game...and millions died...and still they don't take even responsibility...forget reparations.
@jdubo1998
3 жыл бұрын
@@shraddhamishra301 "Responsibility" and "power games", give me a break. If there wasn't a World War going on at the time, sure get your pitchforks. But Nah, almost the entire world was in a sorry-ass state at the time, but hey, like Is said war ain't pretty, just something you have to deal with and piss off.
@shelbabe804
Жыл бұрын
In 2013, I took a class in university (British Empire and Commonwealth). We were required to read Churchhill's secret war, so the fact that it's mentioned in this video really threw me off. There was a big emphasis on other articles about how while the food sent back to Bengal was having issues and not providing what was necessary, there were warehouses of food spoiling and rotting at the same time...
@lebron2292
2 жыл бұрын
Winston Churchill was responsible And as an Indian it's disgusting how the west portrays him as a hero, while he was a racist and responsible of the death of more than 3 million ppl
@itachi_terabapp
Жыл бұрын
@@vatsal7640 Just Like west said to rest of the world and when we trusted them they backstabbed us ...
@devamjani8041
6 ай бұрын
why no mention of tones of Indian crops being sent to britain and europe to be stored for 'future shortages' ?
@KnightsWithoutATable
4 жыл бұрын
The combination of crop failures and government inaction/incomitance in this video reminds me of a couple of the potato famines Ireland faced in the 19th century. It wasn't a colonial governorship that time, but the UK Parliament.
@cd5433
2 жыл бұрын
So much food was going from ireland to UK. Plenty to feed the people. Yet the UK was buying it and taxing it instead. They didn't care about the Irish. The Americans where the ones who sent the real relief aid and that was gathered through the population, not the government.
@CoreyStudios2000
Жыл бұрын
But in the case of Bangladesh’s famine, which was horrible, no doubt, it was because Britain was fighting the Nazis in Germany. The British Isles couldn’t help because Hitler had control of most of Europe and the British had to make sure their island didn’t fall to Nazi rule.
@joshuajohn8870
Жыл бұрын
@@CoreyStudios2000 "couldn't help" you mean take food which bengalis produced
@CoreyStudios2000
Жыл бұрын
@@joshuajohn8870 Well, the British weren’t given much of a choice when Hitler was near the very doorstep of their island. War is a tragic thing and what happened to India was a clear example of how people were left with difficult choices when confronted with an invading force. Know, however, that it isn’t the only one and it’s not just a “white guy” thing.
@joshuajohn8870
Жыл бұрын
@@CoreyStudios2000 they had enough food reserves as the war was nearly over. They kept taking shipments food to help with post war recovery.
@TaufiqueJoarder
4 жыл бұрын
Nabab Siraj ud Dawla was overthrown by the British East India Company in 1757. There was a puppet regime of the Company at the time of the famine. Historically it does not seem correct that the high tax imposed by Nabab Siraj contributed to the first famine. Rather it happened due to the colonial oppression of the British.
@nickjung7394
3 жыл бұрын
Oh dear, another "blame the British" session. How were the people of India treated by the Moghuls?
@TaufiqueJoarder
3 жыл бұрын
@@nickjung7394 Nawab Siraj was not a Mughal by the way. He was an independent Nawab of Bengal, Bihar and Odisa. But that's not the main argument here. The tax that caused the famine was not imposed by the Nawab. It was imposed by the East India Company. Whether mughals or other local rulers were good or bad, thats a whole different discussion.
@nickjung7394
3 жыл бұрын
@@TaufiqueJoarder which famine are you talking about?
@nickjung7394
3 жыл бұрын
@@TaufiqueJoarder I didn't say he was. I was simply commenting on the way in which the population of the Indian sub continent was treated under previous regimes. The 1943 famine in Bengal was the result of inadequate, possibly racially motivated administration; those involved in the administration at the time were Indian born.
@ArghyaDas44
4 жыл бұрын
You missed the fact that the famine of 1876 was caused by the lack of land to cultivate subsistence crops as Bengali farmers were forced to produce cash crops like Indigo in their field to supply raw material for industrial revolution in Britain and those field would be unusable for months after reaping, so there was not enough field to grow food for the population. Bengali weavers were also forced to work in the field and authority would severe the thumb of those carpenter or weavers who disobeyed the authority so they wouldn't have any choice but to work in the field as they couldn't weave without the thumb. There was also a revolt against it in 1859 called Indigo revolt. Btw great video, I really wait for them👍🏻👍🏻.
@buff114
7 күн бұрын
Sounds like the free market can cause famine
@SteveSmith-os2nn
Жыл бұрын
No mention of Winston Churchill? The culprit.
@hatchxable
Жыл бұрын
What? I haven't watched the video. He really didn't mention Winston Churchill? ....oh well.. it's the west and their propaganda after all.
@peppermann
4 жыл бұрын
Excellent balanced view, beautifully narrated.
@makulumac8394
4 жыл бұрын
Great content but little bit of correction ,I m from Bangladesh and Fazlul Haq was Muslim . He was removed from his post because he was critical about British rule in Indian subcontinent. He have his own Wikipedia article if anyone interested.
@arpanmalakar11
3 жыл бұрын
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. ~A Hindu hater; The Partition supporter.
@missavella8624
4 жыл бұрын
We won’t let you starve Simon ole boy. Well wage a holy war on that kfc.
@missavella8624
4 жыл бұрын
@D2 E2 the colonel strikes again
@dtaylor10chuckufarle
3 жыл бұрын
At the very least we'll airdrop American MREs. It's the least we can do!
@ArghyaDas44
4 жыл бұрын
Simon got it wrong at 5:05 Huq was actually a Muslim.
@marksnow7569
4 жыл бұрын
@J S To complicate things still further, disputes among Muslim political groups about the possible status of Bengal after all-but-promised Independence may have been a factor in the democratically elected Bengal legislature's poor handling of the crisis.
@MMMN161
Жыл бұрын
Great video I must say we are making strides but of course there is still much room to grow. Western atrocities are still impossible to understand for the western educated, myself included. It reminds me a lot of the recent debate about the movie Woman King. All the comment threads were bombarded with white men furiously pointing out the movie was woke propaganda about backwards African slavers when everyone knows the British ended slavery. But no one seemed to have any recollection on the British involvement in and massive profits from slavery. Obviously it’s the same way in America in regards to our slavery discussions. Florida just blocked an AP African American history textbook because it praises the Black Panthers and BLM movement who terrorists, communists, and racists with no good reason. However George Washington and Thomas Jefferson are unassailable heroes and legends because even though they owned my relatives like cattle we have all these lovely letters from them about how much they cared about freedom for everyone. At the end of the day these lessons are hard and the hardest of all is empathy.
@mogznwaz
Жыл бұрын
Partaking in what was entirely normal, and legal, at the time is not worthy of attention. Going against the prevailing wind and taking the moral leap to end it at great cost in money and lives IS worthy of attention.
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
@@mogznwaz "taking the moral leap to end it at great cost in money and lives IS worthy of attention." Just say what you mean, you think the civil rights movement was and is immoral, right?
@mogznwaz
Жыл бұрын
@@josephrusso4828 WTF is your malfunction? How is anything I said remotely a comment on any civil rights movement? And besides, CIVIL RIGHTS WOULD NOT EXIST WITHOUT BRITAIN AND THE WEST. Maybe we shouldn’t have bothered and started acting like Genghis Khan or the Ottomans instead. Wholesale slaughter and/or castration of captured males.
@tomweldon7608
3 жыл бұрын
Just a message to the British who will comment with every excuse possible, Winston Churchill hated these people with a passion, he had a deep racism towards them, he said they bred like rabbits when Informed of the famine, FACT
@lovehistory3908
4 жыл бұрын
The final note: no one helped
@5t3v34
4 жыл бұрын
Except the Canadians, Australians, and some other smaller British run countries, as said in the video. No excusing things, but don't underplay the fact that other countries, during the worst war in history I might add, did try to help. South African here btw
@Wargasmo
4 жыл бұрын
@Draco lord your...point?
@cjb4924
4 жыл бұрын
And that includes other lndian states, which is probably why its downplayed even in lndia to this day. To be fair though, everyone was in a financial difficulties at the time due to the war and the world wasn't as connected, no many people at the time knew what was happening in remote Bengal.
@JimothyJigga
4 жыл бұрын
@Draco lord americans were supplying the British and Russians to fight the Nazis, and probably didn't even know this was going on
@Shaker626
3 жыл бұрын
The Japanese were the closest thing to "help".
@Christian_Prepper
Жыл бұрын
*The BRITISH CAUSED HOLOCAUST of 1943:* *"The authors quoted so far agree that the colonial administration's (BRITISH/ENGLISH) policies drove inflation which was one of the MAIN CAUSES of the famine."* 18:35 *"The severity of the famine had been made disastrous by the government's (BRITISH/ENGLISH) intentional lack of action."* 19:57 & 22:18
@vanillathesixth
4 жыл бұрын
It was churchil! He killed em! I saw him vent!
@kevinbourke1847
4 жыл бұрын
Yes the massacre
@shebbs1
4 жыл бұрын
It is unlikely that you ever laid eyes on him, let alone on the early-mid 1940's.
@lizardlegend42
4 жыл бұрын
@@shebbs1 Hmm idk man, you're kinda acting sus not gonna lie
@Flyingkitty1234
3 жыл бұрын
Churchill pig
@--enyo--
4 жыл бұрын
Damn. Usually I do other stuff while listening to the videos, but this was another one where I was sort of transfixed by the tragedy involved. I hadn’t even heard of it before. Thank you for making this.
@arandomyoutubeuser_____8930
4 жыл бұрын
I do appreciate your videos, as they tend to go into history that's not widely known/taught. I had never heard about this until now. I know you're going to get a ton of these, but I hope you do consider doing a video on The Holodomor in Ukraine. 1932-1933. I visited the museum in Kyiv, and it was sobering to see the endless names of victims and hear the tolling of the bell for so many victims.
@yt.personal.identification
4 жыл бұрын
I need to know more about this.
@ivannadtochiev1849
4 жыл бұрын
Yep, that woul be a good one.
3 жыл бұрын
He'd get his KZitem channel deleted if he covered that.
@DesiGalCrochet
Жыл бұрын
I'm fairly certain he's already done a video about the Holodomor on one of his other channels. Edit: I just realized how old this video (And therefore the comments) are. Presently I know that a video about this topic does exist, with Simon as the host. What I am unsure about is when it was released. But that's almost irrelevant because one thing you can say about all of Simon's videos - They stay relevant and the research that goes into them rarely has to be updated. I wish the larger news outlets were as rigorous about facts as Danny and Simon and the rest of his team are!
@gdxdesigns1310
Жыл бұрын
Brits at it again. First Ireland then Bengal. 😢
@aayanismail6248
7 ай бұрын
As a Bangladeshi, I’ve first heard of this famine from my father, it is clear Winston Churchill is not “a hero”
@rodgerhargoon3402
2 ай бұрын
Churchill was a hero for the British highest class only and king and country ......he hated Gandhi for killing the Indian cash cow.....😂😂😂😂
@prettypuff1
Жыл бұрын
The more I listen to this kind of content, more I realize how much American education has failed me
@scottkrater2131
Жыл бұрын
Can you explain why British colonial history would be covered in an American history class? At High school level and lower? Should have gone to college.
@UserHandle454
3 ай бұрын
@@scottkrater2131bruh
@nabeelahmed2413
4 жыл бұрын
"The forgotten holocaust"
@tomweldon7608
3 жыл бұрын
One of many caused by the British
@The_Beefcake_Cometh
3 жыл бұрын
could you narrow that down a little bit more?
@Ujjawal_YouTube
3 жыл бұрын
Yes you are right 👍. British did many many worse cruel rule on India than what Germans did to Jews and other European countries
@The_Beefcake_Cometh
3 жыл бұрын
@@Ujjawal_KZitem the British did terrible things sure, but absolutely not on the scale of the Holocaust and the second world war don't even try and compare
@The_Beefcake_Cometh
3 жыл бұрын
@incredible world it's really not, the Bengal famine is one of the worst losses of life in history but comparing it to a genocide that questioned the very nature of humanity consisting of almost every form of execution, human experiments, death marches, extermination camps it's just on another level.
@larryhovekamp4318
Жыл бұрын
My uncle served in the US Army at the China-Burma-India Theater during the war. He was warned to avoid beggars- there were so many- lest they mob and attack you for your money. They were starving and he saw it. The miracle for him was that he survived disease and the drugs to treat them, the fierce fighting against crack Japanese troops, the insects and leeches and infighting with the supposed Allies. By the time Allied forces reached the China border, he was shot in the shoulder and his war was over. He awaken a week later in the other side of then India, in a hospital in Karachi.
@larryhovekamp4318
Жыл бұрын
The official and scholarly analyses of the causes of the Bengal famine smell like the excuses made of the Irish famine a century earlier: wet weather, plant fungus, overpopulation, yadda yadda et cetera. But as with Ireland, the British overlords had the means and resources to alleviate the disaster in India and didn't for "logistical necessity". Both disasters underscored British hostility to its colonized populations with official policy.
@SeparadoresAtecon
4 жыл бұрын
The initial tax hike from the governor and the inflation generated by the central bank, is plus the impossibility of trade with Burma due to ww2, those are for me the main reasons
@fryreartechnology7611
4 жыл бұрын
Let’s not give 2020 any ideas. Come on elections to fix all of this... anybody believe the November elections will fix all this or COVID expires December 31st 2020 at 11:59pm?
@isabellabihy8631
4 жыл бұрын
Oops, it won't? LOL!😁
@GrooveQuest
4 жыл бұрын
It's funny how any study always shows the results that the financier of said study believes to be true. Or want's to be true.
@rodchallis8031
4 жыл бұрын
That's what Economists are for.
@raymondready7496
4 жыл бұрын
The most logical reason to me is, the rice went to market. Even today this could happen. Some rich pos figures his profit for the year is worth more than 3 million people. Things are getting scary now.
@josephrusso4828
Жыл бұрын
Yup. If you don't have to face the people you're screwing over, it's so much easier to screw them over.
@unixnerd23
4 жыл бұрын
A simple fact, a country which is not self governed and relies on the good auspices of another in times of hardship will never be in a strong position. The Empire extracted a great deal of wealth from India, had that wealth not been exploited perhaps India would have been in a stronger position to cope.
@jhfdhgvnbjm75
4 жыл бұрын
Perhaps, perhaps not. Would the local Maharajas have realy been much different? Yes we faild India, but we were just the last in a long line, I only wish we had done better...
@Nyctasia
4 жыл бұрын
This is far from the only famine, it isnt even the last, it had little to do with any wealth being extracted. As noted in the video, the early famine in the 1870s was averted by imports and British aid. In 1943 there was the slight problem of a world war going on, a desperate need for food in many areas, and a very restricted ability to ship food from anywhere else. You could also consider the Japanese seizing a lot of food stores and destroying others, that sort of thing happens in a war and cannot be planned for. The Empire had ceased making money by the 1890s, overall it was a drain of resources from some areas in order to support others, notably the less worthwhile African areas. The famine was a tragedy, it was not intentional, but bad things happen in war and sadly this is one of them.
@mashrurshakhawat4063
4 жыл бұрын
The 1779 famine wasn’t caused by the nawab. The british colonial power killed the nawab when he tried to stop them from taking Bengals independence in 1757. So he wasn’t around after 22 years of his death to cause a famine. That famine was caused by tax hike of the British colonial power. Also Churchill was always an a$$h#% e when considering indian sub continent. This continent helped the allies with man, food and supplies during WWII. But when they were in trouble churchill say we breed like rabbits, wow. Such hipocracy. In the end the britts were always somehow responsible for all these famine, riot and social chaos of that time. They just tore our beautiful country and its people's harmony of thousand of years.
@timetraveltvniles7650
4 жыл бұрын
People alway have strong opinions on wether it was natural or man-made. In reality it was probably a mixture of the two.
@dairallan
4 жыл бұрын
The evidence is pretty overwhelming that this was man made. The Irish Famine is worse, Ireland was **exporting food to Britain** while millions died.
@commando4481
4 жыл бұрын
Alasdair Allan This wasn’t man made but ok.
@choughed3072
4 жыл бұрын
@@dairallan we didn't cause the potato famine but we did make the effects worse.
@crispyglove
4 жыл бұрын
@@commando4481 The potato blight wasn't man made, but the famine it precipitated was entirely the fault of the British. They continued to export food from Ireland and further strangled them with the corn laws, which were tariffs on imported grain to protect the profits of British landowners.
@dairallan
4 жыл бұрын
@@choughed3072 UK policy caused the failure of ONE SINGLE CROP to lead to famine DESPITE A SURPLUS OF CALORIES BEING GROWN IN IRELAND. Thats a man made famine.
@SmashBrosAssemble
14 күн бұрын
Churchill did do unsavoury things but he’s not a bad person because of all the good that he did, he saved the free world & our very way of life.
@darter9000
4 жыл бұрын
Malthus didn’t blame the famine on the immorality of the poor? He certainly seemed to enjoy being a shield for the rich and powerful.
@SureshSingh-ev2ki
Жыл бұрын
Bengal Famine and Bangladesh Separation (East Pakistan-1971) are two suppressed issues in Geopolitics. Bollywood does neither have the balls to produce films on these issues nor they have close to reality. I must say somebody from Hollywood should depict this at least in cinematic reality. I am enthusiastically waiting for someone will make a movie showing the truth of these two tragic histories...Thank You
@3-Kashmir
Жыл бұрын
Seems you don't have no balls to kid. Your here talking like a indian women that wants to get her drama fix! And do you know cinematic reality is anything but reality, don't you know hollyweird is nothing more then an illusion and anything but the truth or I take it bollywood got you confused?!
@basab00
Жыл бұрын
History is written by the winners.... winston churchill is the culprit. Do more research on him. Hitlar lose otherwise winston churchill would have been the most worst culprit.
@danielhavoc889
3 жыл бұрын
Norman Borlaug was my great Uncle, and it's always interesting to hear his name. I actually visit his wife nearly every time I'm at my grandparents on my mother's side, as they still live in the same town. She's one hell of a woman, still living in her own house, largely without help. My grandparents are the only real help, but they are more of friends than aids, and visit basically weekly.
@52_Ronin
Жыл бұрын
Quite surprising
@jeffreywilliams506
Жыл бұрын
Where is the list of Nations that helped the Bengali in their time of need, in the middle of a world war ????? This is where the focus should be put. Some will say the root of malice originates in Germany, Italy and Japan. The lesson boils down to people electing horrible leadership. YOU WILL KNOW THEM BY THEIR WORKS !!!!
@simtexa
3 жыл бұрын
"If more than one thing may be true, more often than not both are."
@sumansankarghosh
8 ай бұрын
I do not think the video was very mild on the responsible criminals of Bengal Famine. Bengal produce enough rice to support its population even today. Burma under Japanese occupation was not related. Bengal was never dependant on wheat. Bengalis are mainly rice eater. Take it from a Bengali. Your information are false and utterly biased towards British. Churchil was directly responsible for this famine. Overall an useless video.
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