{"id":225605,"date":"2022-12-19T12:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=225605"},"modified":"2022-12-14T06:29:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T06:29:08","slug":"how-british-colonialism-killed-100-million-indians-in-40-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/12\/how-british-colonialism-killed-100-million-indians-in-40-years\/","title":{"rendered":"How British Colonialism Killed 100 Million Indians in 40 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Our research finds that Britain\u2019s exploitative policies were associated with approximately 100 million excess deaths during the 1881-1920 period (1904-1906) \/Wikimedia Commons]<\/p><\/div>\n

2 Dec 2022 – Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Recent years have seen a resurgence in nostalgia for the British empire. High-profile books such as Niall Ferguson\u2019s Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World, and Bruce Gilley\u2019s The Last Imperialist, have claimed that British colonialism brought prosperity and development to India and other colonies. Two years ago, a YouGov poll found that\u00a032 percent of people\u00a0in Britain are actively proud of the nation\u2019s colonial history.<\/p>\n

This rosy picture of colonialism conflicts dramatically with the historical record. According to research by the economic historian Robert C Allen, extreme poverty in India increased under British rule, from 23 percent in 1810 to more than 50 percent in the mid-20th century. Real wages declined during the British colonial period, reaching a nadir in the 19th century, while famines became more frequent and more deadly. Far from benefitting the Indian people, colonialism was a human tragedy with few parallels in recorded history.<\/p>\n

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