This is response to utter rubbish lies indian prime minister manmohan singh is putting young indians mind.It's high time editing of history has to be stopped.
1) 1770 Holocaust
— Bengal faced the most severe famine in the history, approximately 10 million people evaporated. The British took over the country five years earlier; but no one could pinpoint them for the havoc. Actually it started because of a severe drought, but certainly the British didn’t take any measure to reduce the effect. In fact, their revenue collection in 1771 surpassed the Rs. 15.21 million collected in 1768 by Rs. 52,000. No wonder 10 million people starved to death.
2) Victorian holocaust of 1876 to 1878
In his book Late Victorian Holocausts, published in 2001, Mike Davis tells the story of famines that killed between 12 million and 29 million Indians.
These people were, he demonstrates, murdered by British state policy. When an El Nino drought destituted the farmers of the Deccan plateau in 1876 there was a net surplus of rice and wheat in India. But the Viceroy, Lord Lytton, insisted that nothing should prevent its export to England. In 1877 and 1878, at the height of the famine, grain merchants exported a record 320,000 tonnes of wheat.
As the peasants began to starve, officials were ordered "to discourage relief works in every possible way." The Anti-Charitable Contributions Act of 1877 prohibited "at the pain of imprisonment private relief donations that potentially interfered with the market fixing of grain prices." The only relief permitted in most districts was hard labour, from which anyone in an advanced state of starvation was turned away.
In the labour camps, the workers were given less food than inmates of Buchenwald. In 1877, monthly mortality in the camps equated to an annual death rate of 94 per cent.
As millions died, the imperial government launched "a militarised campaign to collect the tax arrears accumulated during the drought."
The money, which ruined those who might otherwise have survived, was used by Lord Lytton to fund his war in Afghanistan.
Even in places that had produced a crop surplus, the government's export policies, such as Stalin's in Ukraine, manufactured hunger.
In the north-western provinces, Oud, and the Punjab, which had brought in record harvests in the preceding three years, at least 1.25 million died.
3) The Great Bengal Famine of 1943 & British Facist government.
Then in 1942 — United Kingdom had suffered a disastrous defeat at Singapore against the Japanese military, which then proceeded to conquer Burma (Now Myanmar) from the British in the same year.
At that point Myanmar was the highest rice exporting country in the world and 15% of India’s rice came from Myanmar. In Bengal the proportion was slightly higher because of the state’s proximity to Myanmar.
British authorities feared a subsequent Japanese invasion of British India through Bengal, and they started stockpiling food for British soldiers to prevent access to supplies by the Japanese in case of an invasion.
To implement that strategy the British ruthlessly enforced a “boat denial scheme” and then a “rice denial scheme.”
The first policy confiscated almost 66,500 boats/ships which eventually collapsed the economy — fishing became impossible, so was the exporting/importing of food.
The second policy allowed the free merchants to purchase rice at any price and sell it back to the government for stocking in the governmental food storage. On one hand it increased the price of rice but on the other it created an artificial food shortage which finally dampened the effect of “Quit India movement.”
The government not only failed to handle the situation but also contributed to the price rise by prioritizing millitary over civil needs.
A heavy toll of life was claimed by the great bengal famine of 1943. The total number of deaths was estimated at 3.5 million. Almost the whole of Bengal was more or less affected by the famine and suffered loss of lives.
4) Civilized British reaction to Jalianwala bag massacre
We all know jalianwala bag massacre (PM has not denied yet) what we should know is british view:
Dyer reported to his superiors that he had been "confronted by a revolutionary army
," and had been obliged "to teach a moral lesson to the Punjab."In a telegram sent to Dyer, British Lieutenant-Governor of Punjab, Sir Michael O'Dwyer wrote: "Your action is correct. Lieutenant Governor approves."
Many Englishmen in India, as well as the British press, defended Dyer as the man who had saved British pride and honour. The Morning Post opened a fund for Dyer, and contributions poured in. An American woman donated 100 pounds, adding "I fear for the British women there now that Dyer has been dismissed."
"I think it quite possible that I could have dispersed the crowd without firing but they would have come back again and laughed, and I would have made, what I consider, a fool of myself." — Dyer's response to the Hunter Commission Enquiry.
Dyer said he would have used his machine guns if he could have got them into the enclosure, but these were mounted on armoured cars. He said he did not stop firing when the crowd began to disperse because he thought it was his duty to keep firing until the crowd dispersed, and that a little firing would do no good.
He confessed that he did not take any steps to tend to the wounded after the firing. "Certainly not. It was not my job. Hospitals were open and they could have gone there," was his response.
many in Britain did not condemn Dyer's actions, some labelling him the "Saviour of the Punjab". The Morning Post started a sympathy fund for Dyer and received over £26,000. Dyer was presented with a memorial book inscribed with the names of well-wishers.
5) Indian's as guinea pigs all hail British Nazism
The British Empire used hundreds of helpless Muslim, Hindu and Sikh soldiers as "guinea pigs" in gas chambers in their laboratories at Rawalpindi in the 1930s.
Many of them may have later died of cancer and other terrible diseases, the de-classified documents of the National Archives show, a revelation that might shock Pakistanis, Indians and other nations of the subcontinent.
This has brought the British in the glare too. The British have been found using poisonous gases against the Indians in the name of experiments at the time when the British Empire took on the might of the German state, accusing Hitler of killing thousands of Jews in gas chambers.
The experiments had started in the early 1930s in Rawalpindi when Porton Down scientists wanted to find out if mustard gas inflicted greater damage on brown skin compared to British skin.
The documents show that these poisonous gases were being produced in Rawalpindi in the 1930s to use them against the Japanese forces and as a trial these were first used on Indian-born soldiers.
The experiments took place for more than 10 years before and during World War II in a military installation at Rawalpindi. They were conducted by scientists from the Porton Down chemical warfare establishment in Wiltshire.
The british are hypocrites even when they where accusing nazi germany of killing many people by gas chamber etc the two faced brits where doing the same thing to indians!
6) Partitioning India over lunch
Memoirs of a British civil servant never seen in public until now show how much the partition of India was decided by just two men, the BBC's Alastair Lawson reports.
It is estimated that around 14.5 million people moved to Pakistan from India or travelled in the opposite direction from Pakistan to India.
"The viceroy, Mountbatten, must take the blame - though not the sole blame - for the massacres in the Punjab in which between 500,000 to a million men, women and children perished," he writes.
"The handover of power was done too quickly."
Punjab 'disaster'
But Beaumont - who later in life was a circuit judge in the UK - is most scathing about how partition affected the Punjab, which was split between India and Pakistan.
"The Punjab partition was a disaster," he writes.
"Geography, canals, railways and roads all argued against dismemberment.
"The trouble was that Muslims, Hindus and Sikhs were an integrated population so that it was impossible to make a frontier without widespread dislocation.
"Thousands of people died or were uprooted from their homes in what was in effect a civil war.
"By the end of 1947 there were virtually no Hindus or Sikhs living in west Punjab - now part of Pakistan - and no Muslims in the Indian east.
"The British government and Mountbatten must bear a large part of the blame for this tragedy."
7) Macaulay tact to destroy Indian culture
My dear Father,
In a few months, I hope indeed in a few weeks, we shall send up the penal code to government. We have got rid of the punishment of death except in cases of aggravated treason and wilful murder. We shall also get rid indirectly of everything that can properly be called slavery in India. There will remain civil claims on particular people for particular services, which claims may be enforced by civil action. But no person will be entitled, on the plea of being the master of another, to do anything to that other which it would be an offence to do to a freeman.
Our English schools are flourishing wonderfully. We find it difficult, indeed at some places impossible, to provide instruction for all who want it. At the single town of Hoogley fourteen hundred boys are learning English. The effect of this education on the Hindoos is prodigious. No Hindoo who has received an English education ever continues to be sincerely attached to his religion. Some continue to profess it as a matter of policy. But many profess themselves pure Deists, and some embrace Christianity. The case with Mahometans is very different. The best-educated Mahometan often continues to be a Mahometan still. The reason is plain. The Hindoo religion is so extravagantly absurd that it is impossible to teach a boy astronomy, geography, natural history, without completely destroying the hold which that religion has on his mind. But the Mahometan religion belongs to a better family. It has very much in common with Christianity; and even where it is most absurd, it is reasonable when compared with Hindooism. It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise, without the smallest interference with religious liberty, merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reglection.I heartily rejoice in this prospect
See macaulay's TRICK
8) Coolies - How Britain reinvented Slavery
The slave trade was officially abolished throughout the British Empire in 1807. This documentary reveals one of Britain’s darkest secrets: a form of slavery that continued well into the 20th century - the story of Indian indentured labour.
19th-century British practice of Indentured Labour, through which more than 1 million Indian workers were transported all over the world — only to be told there was no provision to return. They were effectively only slightly better off than the African slave laborers they were brought in to replace. The latter had been emancipated in 1833, when the British government decided to end slavery and the slave trade throughout the Empire.
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