ASTAGHFIRULLAH!!! When General Robert Clive founded the British Empire by conquering Bengal “it was one of the richest places on earth, as he called it “a paradise on earth”. He would not leave until the British Empire would turn it into hell. The administrative unit of Bengal was larger than France and within 5 years Bengal became India’s poorest province. The tax to pay the British raped the country, the collectors were so harsh wrote a merchant William Bolt that “farmers were often necessitated to sell their children to pay their rents or otherwise flee the country”. The amount of goods and wealth coming out of Bengal was 10 times greater than what came in by 1769 Bengal had no gold, silver or valuables left. The rains then failed, “the rice fields of dried straw”. Recognising the cost of rice would go up, British officers and their Indian agents who enjoyed a monopoly in trading rice brought all the rice. Through 1770 the people went on dying. A British Official named Hunter recounted “The husbandmen sold their cattle; they sold their implements of agriculture; they devoured their seed grain; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found; they ate leaves off trees and grass from the fields and in June 1770 a resident of Murshibad affirmed the living were feeding on the dead. A third of all the people in Bengal numbering 10 million perished. One report about the famine and the way the British had dealt with it said “It had no parallels in human history”. The stories of famine were equally heart breaking: “I have seen dead babies trying to drink from their breasts of dead mothers. Once she was shaken by the sight of a girl whose arm had been torn off and devoured by a jackal, the girl was not yet dead by did not have the energy to fight the jackal off. “Of people I saw on the streets, more than half had blank looks, their faces and eyes were shrunken, and their skin stuck to their bones like paper. They took a long time just to focus their eyes. Their joints pocked out, and the hair on their bodies stood straight up like black pins” this marker of terminal starvation sometimes described as growth of fur is noted in other famines. civilized arent we. goo.gl/uJAszA
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 07:33:05 +0000
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