Talk:Famines in British ruled India: Their Causes and Consequences/@comment-95.83.243.180-20180803172314

Without knowing any more of Indian history than the other commentators, I can see how they have latched onto the writers anger and therefore assumed bias, in order to deny his claim.

However, as a student of Irish history, I am struck by the vast array of similarities between the information presented here and the instances of manufactured famines in Ireland, which constituted at least 3 episodes of genocide since the start of the Plantations.

The descriptions of the modalities, the philiosphy, the racist and sectarian overtones, the exportation of vast amounts of food during prolonged famines, the labour camps (death camps or 'work houses' in ireland), the blaming of the victims and justifications for refusing aid in polite society, could all be interchageable with the Great Irish Famine/Genocide of 1845-50.

In the case of Ireland, the utilisation of the Potato Blight to induce famine and effect genocide was driven by a fear of the growing Catholic, Irish populations political demands for equality, possibly leading to liberation. It was also economically driven, as the British sought to extend the Scottish clearances of small Farmers (mostly Gaelic Catholics ) from the land and replace them with Germanic Protestant, stock on larger more profitable Cattle farms.

This article rings true in every detail to those familiar with the mechanisms of Imperial control and plunder. It's tone, will however result in a backlash of denial and ridicule amongst pro British, occidentals, deliberately kept ignorant of the global crimes against humanity of their Queen's and their Subjects.