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Saturday, July 25, 2015
The Bengal Famine of British India.
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Churchill we know is dead, however there are quite a
few more 'monkeys' left !!!!
Subject: Fwd: The Bengal Famine: How the British engineered the worst
genocide in human history for profit
http://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/
PS
We in British Ceylon also had a similar experience. The older generation in Jaffna used to refer to an 'erlu arisi pancham' - 'the famine of seven grains of rice', when seven grains of rice for each person was the ration, to cook a 'kanji - kandha'. In the Sinhalese vocabulary 'Kollu Kaapu kaley' is still referred to as when people consumed 'kollu' - oats meant for the horses.
PGV
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