Showing posts with label The Bengal Famine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Bengal Famine. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

The Bengal Famine


Email from Gallege De Silva




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