History is written by the victors. In this case it is by those who won WWII and whitewashes the victors crimes against humanity. The Indians did not complain as it was the price for freedom, but more importantly never held malice against the English people that they love.
The criticism of this book is that it doesn’t read chronologically like a history book, nor does it present a time line. It expects the reader to have some knowledge of European colonial economic history, history of India, WWII history, and British history from 1600-1947. If you don’t have that, particularly some Indian history, then you might have some difficulty. This book does go in to detail about the elements which caused the famine and food denial. After 1947 there were no famines in India as central and state governments effectively addressed food shortages. It is documented by British records.
The ugly fact is that Churchill was a colonialist racist when it came non-Europeans. Yes, he did help win WWII in Europe, but at what human and moral cost? From 1941-1944 some 4 million Bengalis died from starvation as food and their livelihood was denied through the active denial program. Some have tried to blame provincial governments who had no control over interstate commerce, but that falls as flat as the holocaust deniers. The reality is the British government under Churchill ensured the loss of India as the “Jewel in the Crown” and had a better annual kill rate than the Nazis from 1941-1945 where over 5 million civilians were murdered.
Churchill kill rate = 1.33 million/year
Hitler kill rate = 1.28 million/year
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