Redpill me on the famine that occurred in Madras India under

Read about it yourself and get back to us instead.

A mishandling of logistics and the result of poor communication. The British saw the Indians as human beings.

>>1538996

Are they not? Why don't you see the Indians as human beings?

>>1537399
Famines had always happened in India until the green revolution in the 1960's. One of the reasons that you hear only about those that occurred during British rule is that the Brits recorded the famines and statistics about them in English. Whether the Mughal/Marathas/local rulers have records and we haven't translated them or they didn't bother writing about them, I don't know. I've been told that a famine during the late mughal empire killed 60% of the people in the Doab which is a pretty devastating thing. You will hear a lot of indian revisionists claiming famines didn't occur before colonialism if you ask in India.

AFAIK the famine in madras was caused by drought in the Deccan plateau but was exacerbated by the promotion of cash crops and exports ( although if they hadn't exported you would still be lacking food for those who would have bought exports but India would have been better off ). Restrictive relief wages didn't help. About 1/12th of the population died.

The Brits developed the Indian Famine codes in response to these famines that helped ensure that there weren't many famines post 1900 ( although the 1943 Bengal famine was particularly bad but we can blame the Japanese and the British devoting resources to WW2 for that ). In my recollection those famines codes where still in place for a good while after independence.

>>1537399
Anglos have an obsession with starving people, see Ireland in the 1840s, the concentration camps in the Boer war, the blockade of Germany during WW1 etc.

>>1539101
>A wild Irishman appears