Winston Churchill and the Bengal Famine

Winston Churchill and the Bengal Famine

Douglas Murray is a British author and political commentator, who — along with his guests — looks at great figures of the past through their historical context.


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[utathya]

I'm a huge fan of Mr. Murray and I agree with him on every issue, but this conversation is nothing but gaslighting! I LIVE IN BENGAL, SO I KNOW WHAT REALLY HAPPENED as some of the affected people were still alive until a few years ago! The famine was a combination of three main factors namely, war-time disruptions, natural disasters, and vile & cruel colonial policies. Bengal was (and still is) the biggest producer of rice in India and it was our state that fed the entire British Indian Army, the Allied Forces in Southeast Asia, and certain Allied Forces in Europe. We had more than enough stockpile from before to feed us for years. This could be corroborated by records of the British Indian Army's Quartermaster General's Department in 1944 (a year before the war ended). SO, ALL THE RICE THAT WAS NEEDED TO ALLEVIATE THE CRISIS, WAS PRESENT RIGHT HERE! It was OUR food, and it was munched upon by foreigners who had no claim to it. Yes, there was a severe flood in 1942, but if food could have been sent to Europe, it certainly could've been sent to the people who sowed the seeds. I know that sons are not responsible for their father's sins, but the fact that astonishes me is that some British people just won't own up and admit to the fact that some of their ancestors were pure evil.

[ayanchakraborty]

Can't believe they are defending Churchill, I had immense respect for Mr. Murray before seeing this, I guess it's true that Britishers won't change and will always try to defend and not acknowledge their bloody past, as a Bengali I will never forget that how inhuman Britishers were and it was a genocide, a cold one, curse to the British empire

[r.ssumedh]

Absolute bollocks! After knowing that millions were dying, he wrote "why hasn't Gandhi died yet?"

[maheshprabhu]

Fact is that Churchill was openly racist and had little empathy for Indians. He did nothing to help people during the Bengal Famine. Was the famine his fault? No. But he had the power to reduce the number of deaths in the famine. But he chose to do nothing and in my opinion that is evil.

[dominicphillip]

If Churchill believed in racial hierarchy then one has to conclude his views were not to different from the Nazis, except he wasn’t anti-semitic.

[ofAwxen]

The British forced Bengal farmers to grow opium instead of food.
The opium was sold in China.
This made the British-caused famines in India worse.

[Globalme]

WW1. 1.5 million Indian soldiers 2.5 million indian soldiers fought. British MF never acknowledged it

[Sunil-zdiv]

Churchill might have been incapable to help in bengal famine but his hate is evident in desiring balkanisation of India when British left.

[soodabhi]

Famine in Bengal
Vs
Famine in Ukraine


Churchill vs Stalin


If India becomes rich- nobody will deny massacre of Indians like they don't deny the Holocaust. There is no talk of British atrocities in Africa - Kenya because their children are still poor

[kushagrabhardwaj]

Cabinet Minister: Sir, Indians dying in Bengal
Churchill: Great, Is Gandhi dead yet?
Part Time Historian & Journalist/ Full Time Idiot: Jokes and Woke Faith 😂😂😂

While being a guy who identifies himself as Liberal Financial Conservitive.


The Echo Chambers people elect to lock themselves in is just mindblowing.

[TR-lbom]

I wish Churchill and his Victorians were alive today and notice what happened to his great empire and how without any help from it the so called colonies and their subjects were developed and thriving.

[JoyP]

Ohh Britishers... Bunch of nice loving cuddly people who went half the way around the world to India to be friends with them and rule them for their betterment only 🥲.

[fourkeys]

indians were too warm and believing and european and islamic invaders took advantage. people of european races colonized the world far beyond europe and continue to colonize USA Canada Australia, Nz, wiping out those native cultures.

British historians claim to have brought railways and "civilazation" to India. India slowly and surely broke-out of the british "help".

Mughal Invaders claim to have brought culture and architecture from their lands, yet there are zero taj mahals and paintings and libraries in Afghanistan. It looks shady, and likely that temple-wealth-looters painted themselves as holy-warriors to escape being branded as thieves and robbers. and most of them stayed back too because their own country was terrible.

India in its own way magically breaks out of these selfish invader mindsets and expresses itself.

Fascinating.

[s.]

During entire British and company rule India had many many man made famine because of the policies due to which 30 to 40 million people died but after India got Independence not a single famine occurred in the history of independent India.

[durgacdks]

We are really trying hard to not hold any grudge against the present English country for their past atrocities, but you guys are not making it easy. The British were shipping all the grains from india to their island of a country, and for that the sea route was safe and unaffected by the WW2, but it was impossible to transport the food within india from one state to other because of Japan. Right? There were those famous railroads you hypocrites, they could have used the same indian railway to supply food to bengal which they use to extract all the resources from india.

[ultimatekombat]

Completely wrong. The truth is Bengal famine happened due to natural causes of course. But to help the people of Bengal the other parts of India prepared food which was to be sent to the Bengal but evil Churchill knowingly diverted that food to the war. so the food that was meant for the people of Bengal he stole that food and diverted it. This is the truth you can verify this on chatgpt and Winston Churchill was well aware about the famine but still he stole the food of people of Bengal.

[pauldh]

Six pages for three million people. I can only marvel at Andrew Roberts' powers of synopsis. A typhoon? Churchill comes under scrutiny because critics of his policy in India at this time cite orders he gave for the destruction and requisition of rice supplies following the fall of Burma and British fears that if left they might be seized by the Japanese and that it was this that caused the famine. I trust those six pages will adequately answer this point.

[prithviprakash]

This guy arguments are so apologetic and he failed to dismiss a single claim.
Over 3 million Bengalis died in that famine. Several academic studies corroborate it as manufactured one. Denying this is akin to denying Hitler's role in the holocaust and pinning the blame on "the times".
Simply put Churchill was a racist imperialist.

[sowmyanr]

False narration. He triggered this famine by not allowing Australian ship to dock.

And he took food away from India and this excuse of him not being able to move food into India is what is rubbish.


Rewriting history here.

[ÆßV]

*Winston Churchill was outright racist.* He called Indians & their religion as "beastly". He went ahead and asked why hasn't Gandhi died yet. Also, he was in favour of colonisation.