05-04-2009, 08:28 PM
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<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Apr 28 2009, 06:03 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Apr 28 2009, 06:03 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Repeating start of post 38 in letters thread
http://india_resource.tripod.com/colonial.html "The Colonial Legacy - Myths and Popular Beliefs" states that:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i>In Late Victorian Holocausts</i>, Mike Davis points out that here were 31(thirty one) serious famines in 120 years of British rule compared to 17(seventeen) in the 2000 years before British rule.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Note there were famines induced by the islamic rulers that terrorised the nation before christianism arrived, these probably account for a significant number of the pre-British famines.)
Francois Gautier moreover gives us the record after the christian terror rule at http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifac...enial.html, which shows that it was indeed christianism that was squarely to blame:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Since Independence, there has been no such famines, a record of which India should be proud.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]96743[/snapback][/right]
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<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+May 3 2009, 10:10 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ May 3 2009, 10:10 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->(The) quote about 17 famines in 2000 years before the Brits, i think most of those took place under the Muslims. There was a severe famine in the Deccan just before Shivaji's birth, and several European travellers like Bernier mention about the impoverished condition of the peasents under the Mughals.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Christoislamic famines.
No differentiating between islamism and christianism.
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Apr 28 2009, 06:03 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Apr 28 2009, 06:03 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Repeating start of post 38 in letters thread
http://india_resource.tripod.com/colonial.html "The Colonial Legacy - Myths and Popular Beliefs" states that:
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i>In Late Victorian Holocausts</i>, Mike Davis points out that here were 31(thirty one) serious famines in 120 years of British rule compared to 17(seventeen) in the 2000 years before British rule.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->(Note there were famines induced by the islamic rulers that terrorised the nation before christianism arrived, these probably account for a significant number of the pre-British famines.)
Francois Gautier moreover gives us the record after the christian terror rule at http://www.archaeologyonline.net/artifac...enial.html, which shows that it was indeed christianism that was squarely to blame:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Since Independence, there has been no such famines, a record of which India should be proud.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->[right][snapback]96743[/snapback][/right]
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-Bharatvarsh+May 3 2009, 10:10 PM-->QUOTE(Bharatvarsh @ May 3 2009, 10:10 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->(The) quote about 17 famines in 2000 years before the Brits, i think most of those took place under the Muslims. There was a severe famine in the Deccan just before Shivaji's birth, and several European travellers like Bernier mention about the impoverished condition of the peasents under the Mughals.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Christoislamic famines.
No differentiating between islamism and christianism.