12-10-2010, 02:47 AM
[quote name='devagiri' date='08 December 2010 - 12:46 PM' timestamp='1291840716' post='109730']
Kaushal Garu, I would be very grateful if you could dig up some of your notes.all contributions to the count will be gratefully acknowledged.
the figure of fifty million is very realistic.I guess British had the advantage of "modernity" to annihilate greater numbers of Indians than the Islamics could manage ( in the relative time periods of their military supremacy).
I am great follower of your articles regarding revising the timeline of of our history.I try and read the ones related to our mathematics,astronomy etc but my understanding is very limited in those subjects hence can only grasp 10% of what you write.
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It appears that a major publisher in India will agree to publish my book on The Origins of Astronomy, the calendar and Time.I strongly recommend you get it. I say that not so much to sell my book but it contains a vast wealth of information on the History of astronomy and math in India and once you see all the data you will be wondering why we Indians let ourselves be bamboozled into believing the rubbish that has been propagated by the Oxford and Cambridge schools . I have always maintained that the key to India's history and chronology lies in investigating the history of the sciences in India.
I will try to dig out the notes on the carnage in India during British rule, but the key to that is the famines in India. The 1770 famine alone resulted in 1/3 Bengalis being killed (that is in all of Bengal). That alone resulted in 10 -15 million deaths. Then there were a series of famines between 1870 and 1906, one almost every year that resulted in 26 million deaths .. There is a UN publication that deals with famines in India.
The story of the famines in India is yet to be told in its entirety.
And then there is the 1857 war and the entire gangetic plain was depopulated. I wuld not put it past the British to have killed 3 million (per Amerish Misra)
In 1770 there was an attempt to depopulate the continent by starvation , just as they did in the Americas (by disease and starvation ) but finally the Brits came to the same conclusion as Jehangir - that they could not kill all the Indians - there were too many of them.
There is a thread in IF which asks Did the British civilize the indians. The real question is whether the Indians succeeded in civilizing the Barbarians who called themselves brits
Kaushal Garu, I would be very grateful if you could dig up some of your notes.all contributions to the count will be gratefully acknowledged.
the figure of fifty million is very realistic.I guess British had the advantage of "modernity" to annihilate greater numbers of Indians than the Islamics could manage ( in the relative time periods of their military supremacy).
I am great follower of your articles regarding revising the timeline of of our history.I try and read the ones related to our mathematics,astronomy etc but my understanding is very limited in those subjects hence can only grasp 10% of what you write.
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It appears that a major publisher in India will agree to publish my book on The Origins of Astronomy, the calendar and Time.I strongly recommend you get it. I say that not so much to sell my book but it contains a vast wealth of information on the History of astronomy and math in India and once you see all the data you will be wondering why we Indians let ourselves be bamboozled into believing the rubbish that has been propagated by the Oxford and Cambridge schools . I have always maintained that the key to India's history and chronology lies in investigating the history of the sciences in India.
I will try to dig out the notes on the carnage in India during British rule, but the key to that is the famines in India. The 1770 famine alone resulted in 1/3 Bengalis being killed (that is in all of Bengal). That alone resulted in 10 -15 million deaths. Then there were a series of famines between 1870 and 1906, one almost every year that resulted in 26 million deaths .. There is a UN publication that deals with famines in India.
The story of the famines in India is yet to be told in its entirety.
And then there is the 1857 war and the entire gangetic plain was depopulated. I wuld not put it past the British to have killed 3 million (per Amerish Misra)
In 1770 there was an attempt to depopulate the continent by starvation , just as they did in the Americas (by disease and starvation ) but finally the Brits came to the same conclusion as Jehangir - that they could not kill all the Indians - there were too many of them.
There is a thread in IF which asks Did the British civilize the indians. The real question is whether the Indians succeeded in civilizing the Barbarians who called themselves brits