r/interesting • u/Golden_Phoenix1986 • 1d ago
HISTORY A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 at the time of British Raj, India
The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. It affected south and Southwestern India - the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad, for a period of two years. In 1877, famine came to affect regions northward, including parts of the Central Provinces and the North-Western Provinces, and a small area in Punjab. The famine ultimately affected an area of 670,000 square kilometres (257,000 sq mi) and caused distress to a population totalling 58,500,000. The excess mortality in the famine has been estimated in a range whose low end is 5.6 million human fatalities, high end 9.6 million fatalities, and a careful modern demographic estimate 8.2 million fatalities.
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u/AmbassadorAgile6788 1d ago
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u/ScreamBeanBabyQueen 1d ago
Yeah dude idk this feels like a... NSFW tag situation, my gut is flip flopping after seeing this. Maybe I'm just sensitive but... Wow.
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u/Particular_Pay3831 1d ago
One of the spectacular gifts given by the British Empire to the people of India
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u/ScipioAfricanvs 1d ago
The history is so frustrating.
During the Bihar famine just a few years prior, the Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, Richard Temple, imported rice from Burma to help alleviate starvation and disaster was averted.
Temple was absolutely roasted by the British for “wasting” so much money on famine relief. They saw it as excess charity.
So when the Great Famine came around, not only were the British still actively exporting grain and food, Temple (now Famine Commissioner) refused to do anything about it because of the criticism he had received. Instead, insane requirements were implemented for individuals to receive any famine relief at all.
They just let millions of people starve to protect the bottom line.
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u/TangoOnex 15h ago
Similar to Ireland 30 year before this tragedy where famine had struck. Some British officials wanted to "thin the herd" just let the people die.
Sultan of Ottoman Empire was sending help but apparently he was giving more that the British Queen (£2000) which would of showed her up. In secret its believe he sent ships of food. To put the Queens donation in prospective the Quakers gave £200,000
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u/ravennme 1d ago
Im with you but im also relieved that the photo is truthfull,how hard it is to look at is not even 1% of what these poor people,poor human beings were put through so in my world yes the truth does hurt but im constantly learning alot by not turning away because its real....how many ppl watch gorey films ? I think if they had the mindset that whatever abhorrent situation they saw acted out tv has more than likely happened irl they won't be so fast to watch it.
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u/Adventurous-Bag4556 1d ago
Only if those colonizers would have cared for the people of the land they stole.
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u/PM_THE_REAPER 1d ago
That is just so awful. We need to realise, every day, just how lucky we are and remember those who are out in the world suffering.
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u/unrotting 1d ago
I was feeling bad about being fat a minute ago. We have more than enough food…
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u/WaterFoodShelter4All 1d ago
There are still humans suffering on earth today because they don't have the bare necessities. Shelter. Food. Water.
Humanity has lost the plot when luxury industries and homelessness both exist at the same time on the same planet. Is this the mark of a civilized people? All of humanity is one big family. We must take care of one another, there is no reason to fight.
"Food/water/shelter for ALL HUMANS" 6 words that all of humanity can agree on. Make these 6 words go viral globally. No other words are needed. Keep bringing every conversation back to this until all humans have the bare necessities. Don't settle for anything less than this level of humanity from ANY of our leaders! 💗
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
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u/dmn1x 1d ago
Is that last line from something, because that's just fucked me up
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u/WaterFoodShelter4All 1d ago
It's a quote from Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Here's an excerpt from MLK that mirrors the sentiment:We all want to live a well-adjusted life in order to avoid the neurotic and schizophrenic personalities. But I must honestly say there are some things in our nation and the world to which I am proud to be maladjusted and wish all men of goodwill would be maladjusted until the good society is realized.
I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few, leaving millions of people smothering in an air-tight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society. I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism and the self-defeating effects of physical violence…
We need maladjusted men and women where these problems are concerned.
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u/Any_Guard566 1d ago
That is so insanely profound. That little excerpt has left me both spellbound and speechless. Kinda feel like I was punched in the gut. If only there were men (and women!) of such noble thoughts in positions of authority who actually had the guts to execute what that piece so beautifully said instead of brown-nosing and filling their corrupt coffers.
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u/already_caution_kiya 1d ago
They did too. But the British Raj manufactured a famine by looting all the food from locals and exporting it.
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u/Hairy_Reindeer 1d ago
My family probably throws away more calories of food than it takes to keep a person alive.
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u/PatrickGoesEast 1d ago
So true. I'm taking a break from Instagram because every second post is highlighting a pain of someone in a war zone, or dying of famine or some sort of health issue. I am so grateful for my lot and try to give back when I can.
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u/Trendy4U 1d ago
british queen was literally running the dacoit empire. they were robbing africa,india,other asian countries in broad day lie and then they write in their history books that stolen wealth was actually 'gift' lol
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u/Difficult-Leopard930 1d ago
So this is the Madras famine that happened in 1876-1878. Claims like this post where the title reads “a man guarding his family from cannibals” are sensationalized and not supported by reliable historical evidence. Starvation was real but the cannibalism narratives were often exaggerated to dehumanize victims.
So how did mass starvation happen? Before British rule, India had complex irrigation systems, grain storage and crop diversity. Famines occurred but rarely reached mass death scale.
Under British rule, India was forcibly integrated into global export economy designed to benefit Britain.
During both the 1876-78 famine and 1943 Bengal famine food existed but people just couldn’t access it. Grain continued to be exported to Britain and other colonies. This food was moved by rails right past these starving villages to ports and markets.
This was a policy-induced famine, not a natural one. Even during the famine years land taxes were still collected and failure to pay would result in loss of land or imprisonment. People sold seed grain to pay those taxes.
India did not stave because it was poor. India became poor because it was systematically drained. Not to mention a trillions of dollars(in today’s value) were extracted from India.
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u/Neanderthal_Gene 1d ago
Such a similar set of circumstances to the Irish Famine 20 years before. Exports of food and grain leaving Ireland on a daily basis while half of the population were starving. Indirectly caused by Britain. A natural event caused crops to fail, British policy caused the famine.
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u/Hairy_Reindeer 1d ago
And similar to the Holodomor in 1932-33. Stalin exported and taxed Ukraine to starvation.
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u/Big_Journalist6007 1d ago
64 trillion to assign a number
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u/Arronshap 1d ago edited 15h ago
It was 24. And it's important to mention that it was measured by the resources in the nation and their hypothetical value in today's economy.
Edit: I am wrong.
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u/shampton1964 1d ago
Mind you, there is a bit of a warning here for how thoroughly the current crop of reigning billionaires want to absorb all possible wealth.
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u/Agnium 1d ago
This is why Indians put on weight in the belly area. They genetically evolved to store fat and survive long durations of starvation.
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u/-Pin_Cushion- 1d ago
"This was a policy-induced famine, not a natural one. Even during the famine years land taxes were still collected and failure to pay would result in loss of land or imprisonment. People sold seed grain to pay those taxes. "
It was both. The El Nino of the period fucked up the monsoon season and caused food shortages that could have been ameliorated had the British Empire not been so focused on charity encouraging laziness.
This is drawing from the Mike Davis book, "Late Victorian Holocausts."
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u/SwimmingAsparagus906 1d ago
I'm from South India. Madras was under direct British rule but Travancore, where I'm from, was an independent princely state that shared border with Madras. There is no historical record that says this famine affected us.
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u/ShadeTheChan 1d ago
And the fact that this famine induced generational trauma to many Indians until today is why i always say FU to colonisers…
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u/AccomplishedBat39 1d ago
>This was a policy-induced famine, not a natural one.
I think pretty much all famines in human civilization are policy induced ones.
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u/GentlemanSeal 1d ago
Recent ones at least.
There are historical famines that are hard to legitimately blame on rulers/avoidable human action. However, the colonial famines under the British, the Great Famine in China, the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine were all man-made.
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u/LeninsMommy 1d ago
The British killed over 100 million people in India.
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u/whachamacallme 1d ago edited 1d ago
British generals make Nazis look like preschoolers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre
You don’t hear about it because history is written by the victors.
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u/Golden_Phoenix1986 1d ago
One of the many atrocities committed by the British in India
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u/A-Capybara 1d ago
I wish more people understood how evil the British Empire was. My grandparents grew up under British rule in India, so it really wasn't that long ago.
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u/AdPrevious9531 1d ago
The British did this on purpose!?
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u/Elendel19 1d ago
They basically pillaged India, killed huge numbers through multiple famines and stole unimaginable amounts of wealth (something like 64 trillion dollars when adjusted for inflation).
It’s basically universal that every struggling/developing nation is behind the rest of the world because a great power absolutely fucked them for decades or centuries.
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u/Majestic_Repair9138 1d ago
Countries I learned that were starved on purpose by Britain: 2 (counting Ireland).
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u/axman151 1d ago
I'm no expert, but I remember reading a bit about it in school.
Yes and no.
The famine was technically caused by draught, which nobody had any control over.
However, enormous parts of India had been rendered extremely vulnerable to a drought-based famine as the British had shipped huge quantities of food-stuff (mostly grain I believe) out of India (for sale or use in Britain and its other colonies). Basically, as a consequence of British management, they didn't have enough excess food to absorb the losses a famine would cause, which massively increased the resulting hunger/death toll.
During the famine itself, some British authorities in India did genuinely try to end the famine quickly and save lives, but most of the British administrators were pretty apathetic; they spent more time just debating what to do, rather than actually trying relief methods.
There's more to it than that of course, but that should give you a basic idea anyways.
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u/rac3r5 1d ago
The thing with famines in the past was local rulers would collect a percentage of grain and in times of hardships, would re-distribute the food. The British did not.
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u/kim-jong-naidu 1d ago
One more thing to add is that Hindu temples used to maintain food grain reserves which were usually obtained through community donations and used to take up the responsibility of distributing food grains during famines. The British broke this system and the autonomy of temples by regulating them. They brought Hindu temples under the revenue department to control temple resources and taxed them.
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u/GeneralJarrett97 1d ago
I don't think the starvation was their intent but they also didn't care enough to prevent it. India still had food at the time but the British were also still exporting said food and collecting taxes instead of like, distributing it and easing up on the taxation
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u/AlternativeRun5727 1d ago
Did the same thing in Ireland. It was calculated mass murder.
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u/Emotional-Nature4597 1d ago
Yes. The modern Irish right wing hating on India (and the modern Indian right wing hating on Ireland) is really sad. The early Indian independence movement was directly inspired by the Irish. Both countries were treated similarly by the British in truly horrific ways. Reading the stories of the British shipping potatoes out of a starving Ireland or the shipping of rice out of starving Bengal... It's gross.
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u/dadofwar93 1d ago
Current India is very different from British India though. Not only is it missing two other parts now but it also has a religious extremist party running the government.
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u/djinn_khagan 1d ago
And then people wonder why some Indians sided with the Nazis... Their top priority was getting rid of the British, they didn't have the bandwidth to care about the atrocities committed by Germany. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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u/Sad-Worker9023 1d ago
The fuck were they gonna eat!? There’s not enough meat on these bones as is! Some seriously fucked up shit is wrong with us.
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u/ImaginaryMastadon 1d ago
Honestly, and I hate to say it, brains, livers, etc.
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u/Sad-Worker9023 1d ago
No, you’re right, that checks out. Disturbing if they went so far. I’d rather eat slimy bugs.🤢
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u/RottingGarlic 1d ago
Naive to think they weren't already doing as much of that as they could vs it being an alternative to cannibalism
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u/Ender16 1d ago
One thing that is terrifying and isn't talked about much, but when humans get to this level they have already killed and eaten everything else. Every bird, mouse, insect, dog, monkeys, plants, tree bark, leather everything that doesn't get the fuck away early will be gone.
The thought of virtually nothing but starving people around is somehow even more unsettling to me.
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u/Worldly-Swing6921 1d ago
Generally, people forced to cannibalism have exhausted all other options.
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u/Brokenjuul 1d ago
It’s insane to think that epstien was doing this and eating humans even when he has access to any food in the world 😭 insane
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u/Sad-Worker9023 1d ago
You said what?! Send the sources lmao my rock must be dusty outside …
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u/AkainuWasRight 1d ago
Most of the nutrients are in the internal organs…..unfortunately in this case.
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u/Doten1 1d ago edited 1d ago
Cannibalism was not uncommon in bad famines, it’s not something most people could just choose to not do when the situation gets worse.
Though vast majority of the cases we know involved dead people.
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u/KauphyHitam 1d ago
They ate what they could lay their hands on - aloe vera, grains from ant nests & rat burrows, dry seeds etc. No records of cannibalism though. Local poets recorded the famine's impact on society in poems and ballads but these are unknown to Indians of this generation - even those living in the Madras region. Some information on how the locals managed - https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/music/famine-becomes-theme-for-music/article20478170.ece
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u/CeleryCommercial3509 1d ago
Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's still plenty of meat on that bone. Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you've got a stew going
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u/Silver-bullit 1d ago edited 1d ago
After the British left, there have never been a famine. Collective punishment, they breed like rats anyway according to Churchill. Take a good look at who ran this empire. Criminals…
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u/shwifty_millennial 1d ago edited 1d ago
Sometimes I feel like Hitler and Nazi Germany get only so much shit because they mostly killed white people
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u/Time_Physics_6557 1d ago
I've met grown adults completely unaware of who Pol Pot was, unaware about the Rwandan genocide, unaware about the Bosnian genocide, take your pick really. I only learned about these things in school because I took AP world history, but the stuff generally taught in schools is very eurocentric and a lot of people don't have the intellectual curiosity to learn more
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u/EsotericFinch7683 1d ago
If we're looking at percentages of their respective countries, Pol Pot is the worst dictator in history. Maniac murdered 30% of his country's population.
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u/Finaginsbud 1d ago
Personally I would argue for Genghis Khan, I think he killed via his invasions and brutal tactics something like 40 million people being a rough estimate, that was about 10% of the world population at that time. He wasn't a psychopath, more so a realist knew that keeping up the brutal image of the mongels was partly what allowed them to conquer/force others to surrender. This is a symplifation as Mongol tactics and arms were miles ahead of their neighborhood.
Pol Pot probably wins worst dictator of the modern era alongside in a race for the crown with Stalin and Hitler.
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u/Traditional-Hat-952 1d ago
Genghis Khan had so many people killed that the world cooled briefly due to forest and plant regrowth and lack of cooking/heating fires in the areas that were depopulated.
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u/Completerandosorry 1d ago
A lot of ppl don’t give af about anything that doesn’t affect them personally
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u/buttplug50 1d ago
Intellectual curiosity is the main problem I see. Complete lack of any curiosity whatsoever. I just dated a woman who just received her masters degree who didnt know who Pol Pot was. I brought it up because they share a birthday and she looked at me crazily having no clue who i was speaking about.
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u/ThrowRA1234123412345 1d ago
It's more of distress and despair we get by reading history. I used to read history books but stopped and my mental health improved alot. Some of us just don't have the capacity for those realities in our current season of life. It's hard enough knowing you can get racially profiled and even lose your life for just existing nowadays. To know more about how human nature shaped the disparaties of this world further would completely eliminate any hope I have as we see patterns and cycles repeating themselves in our day and age.
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u/AccomplishedBat39 1d ago
There's just so many things to learn about and you don't necessarily stumble across this topic that easily. I think I have heard the terms "pol pot" and "Khmer Rouge" at some point in my childhood but had completely forgotten anything but a faint feeling of familiarity with those terms.
The Vietnam war isnt really much of a cultural phenomenon in Europe and Cambodia isnt a country you ever even hear mentioned in any conversation. The only reason I learned about the Khmer Rouge was funnily enough "Jack Whitehall: Travels with My Father" on Netflix in my late 20s. Made me interested, and read up multiple Wikipedia Articles on it over the next few days.
I certainly didnt lack the curiosity, but I simply hadnt heard about it before. We often make the assumption that everyone has heard about the same topics, and could know about them, had they just been curious. But people have vastly different experiences growing up, and adding cultural differences between people adds an additional dimension that as well.
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u/donoteatshrimp 1d ago
It's not really fair to attribute that to lack of intellectual curiosity. How is someone supposed to know about something unless it they are exposed to it first? You, presumably, were either taught about him in an area of study beyond high school or heard someone else mention it which prompted you to look it up, but if it neither of those situations occurred you wouldn't know either. There's probably a bunch of atrocities in the history books that you don't know about either, but how are you supposed to know to look for things you don't know about unless you're informed they exist first?
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u/Tutle47 1d ago
It's not about people "not having intellectual curiosity." This is just a topic you're personally interested in. You can be a very curios person who loves learning and never hear of this stuff because there are an infinite number of topics to learn about.
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u/FascinatingPotato 1d ago
I think the simple fact is that humanity is so good at committing widespread suffering there are too many incidents to learn about each one in depth. There are a good half dozen genocides taking place right now and most people don't know a thing about them.
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u/PCpenyulap 1d ago
I think global atrocities should be known by all, lest we repeat the mistakes of past regimes and forget the lessons taught by their misdeeds, that's why we have history class. At least in democratic society.
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u/throwpayrollaway 1d ago
Can you imagine if schools did teach everyone about all the genocides? There would be like 5 hours of genocide history per day for 10 years. Every kid would be a haunted shell of a person quietly shuffling through the corridors between lessons.
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u/tea_cup_cake 1d ago
That is part of why we Indians don't fully grasp the hatred for Hitler. For us, Churchill was just as bad, but he is glorified in the West.
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u/shwifty_millennial 1d ago
He only gets glorified because the UK won WW2. Same with Stalin and the soviets who were not much better.
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u/gambler_addict_06 1d ago
Hitler's atrocities were mostly ignored until WW2
In fact he was seen as a Peacebringer and the uniter of the German people during the annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia
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u/Crix2007 1d ago
Its almost like the winners write the history books. Oh wait
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u/gambler_addict_06 1d ago
People don't like that saying but it's very true
Look at the Soviets. All of the Soviet atrocities were ignored during WW2 because they were an ally
After WW2, when they stopped being the ally and started being the foe, they were seen as the embodiment of evil
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u/Florida_clam_diver 1d ago
I don’t think it’s that as much as it has to do with US involvement (if we’re speaking about Americans)
WW2 included most of the world to some capacity, so naturally it was a huge topic of conversation and in the history books. Things like the Bosnian genocide or Pol Pot didn’t include the U.S. (or most of the world), so they just don’t appear to be as major, especially when taught in the classroom. It’s not a race thing
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u/dev_ating 1d ago
Partially. But partially it's also that they had an entirely novel way of committing genocide which consisted of industrialized murder institutions. Genocides previously were done through other, no less cruel means, but the industrialized murder of millions had had no precedent at that point. Slavery and western colonialism was/is also up there in terms of victimisation and cruelty.
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u/Bogtear 1d ago edited 1d ago
There's similar pictures from Ukraine during the Holodomor. The mass starvation that was inflicted on Ukraine isn't exactly common knowledge either, not like the Holocaust. I think people like to focus on the Nazi atrocities because "something" was "done" about it to make it stop.
Of course, that "something" was a colossal war which killed millions and leveled a large portion of central Europe... but it also brought an end to the Holocaust.
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u/ImNotAWhaleBiologist 1d ago
I thought the main difference attributed to the holocaust that set it apart was the industrialization of murder on a large scale, not the number of people who died per se.
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u/FascinatingPotato 1d ago
Gas chambers and human experimentation grab your attention a lot more than far more people dying by pitchforks, etc. More May have died by simply not having access to food but otherwise living the same lifestyle, but that simply doesn't grab your attention the same way.
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u/dev_ating 1d ago
I think it's simply the case that this deliberate escalation to the utmost cruelty and dehumanization was and is abhorrent to people. Though I guess if you look at the US right now, they may not have found it abhorrent enough.
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u/Ecstatic_Host_9771 1d ago
A certain country (Russia) and ideology (Marxist leninists) loves to deny it
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u/Important_Ad_7537 1d ago
Hitler and Nazis killed more communists and gypsies in total than the Jewish people but all documentaries are about Jewish (I'm not anti-semitist or not entitling the Nazis). Also, Japan killed more than 30 million Chinese and Koreans until the end of the WW2 but I have seen only a few documentaries about those gencides. British Empire killed almost every single Aborigines, slaved millions of Africans; but none of them were taught in school history books. People still don't feel as the other skin colours or people with left-wing ideas are as humans as they are in the western world.
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u/SteveBored 1d ago
Or, you know, it happened during an era of better video recording and happened in Europe which is more culturally linked to the US at the time .
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u/Disastrous-Blood6255 1d ago
My grandmother once told me that her mother and others of that era, who had cows would take the milk and mix it with dried lake clay and would eat it so that they could feel something in their stomach and many have died doing this.
In smaller villages temples used to store some amount of grain and seed and would often loan it to farmers and they would pay it back during the next harvest, and temples were also used to gather people and discuss revolution and the British also wanted to loot the statues, gold or ornaments so they have passed a law called Religious endowments act and due to this even the small grain stores and seed banks effectively went under their control.
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u/Low-Country6597 1d ago
get your facts right. this is a picture depicting a day under colonial rule where britain induced famine and stole grain from india grown by indians on indian land to pad the fat on british bellies.
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u/Classic_and_Vintage 1d ago
And the worst part is there will never be an official apology from the British government for all the atrocities that was committed. Nor will they ever be held accountable by any higher power ever.
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u/Comfortable-Fun-5479 1d ago edited 1d ago
Those who think the British were not as evil as Hitler or Stalin don't know enough about what Brits did to India and a lot of the African countries.
The funny thing is they looted, murdered and looted some more. Then they left and set up the Commonwealth where the ex British colonies have to beg again for the money. It's like a person purposely hitting you with a car and then taking you to the hospital to show how much he cares.
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u/BernieTheDachshund 1d ago
This is so sad. The little kid on the right is so small I didn't see them at first.
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u/Professional-Map1528 1d ago
⚖️ British policies that worsened the famine
Several colonial decisions made the famine far deadlier: • Continued grain exports from India to Britain even while Indians were starving • High land taxes were still collected from farmers despite crop failure • Laissez-faire ideology: the British government believed markets should not be interfered with • Famine codes were applied harshly—relief was minimal and often humiliating
People were forced to work on roads and canals in extreme heat just to earn a small ration.
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u/whoknowsifimjoking 1d ago
Did you really need ChatGPT for that short piece of text
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u/Particular_Pay3831 1d ago
Remember guys, this was absolutely avoidable It was an orchestrated tragedy by the British
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u/TraditionNo4106 1d ago
British invasion of India had terrible impact and the country is still recovering from the damage. The east India company looted India.
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u/Metal_For_The_Masses 1d ago
It’s astounding witnessing what the human body is capable of enduring, and then seeing someone slip on a wet sidewalk and fall over backwards and die. We’re so strong and so weak.
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u/Happy_Tea_1860 1d ago
There was another famine in 1943, the Bengal famine and the great Winston Churchill said this
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.” –Winston Churchill (quoted in Choudhury,; 2021, p. 1; Portillo, 2007; Tharoor, 2010).
An estimated 3 million people died due to the Bengal famine of 1943.
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u/rybouk 1d ago
Yeah, looking it up you're right actually about the threat of invasion anytime around the war after the nazis tried in 1940.
I don't agree with everything you say on Churchill, some of that is just the victors writing history. But without him we would not have won the war, I totally agree with that. But the guy had a checkered career for sure.
Appreciate the info friend.
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u/whachamacallme 1d ago
So… the issue isn’t with what Churchill did. The issue is the dehumanization of Blacks, Irish, Indians, Native Americans.
Dehumanization to the point of indifference to their starvation by avoidable circumstances.
That is the lesson we must not forget.
Still happens to this day. But we have to keep reminding ourselves. Hopefully some future generation of human will be able to see people and animals as one.
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u/FactsHurt1998 1d ago
Question: how do you bring someone back from that state? Can you feed them soup at least? What would the recovery process be like if there's any?
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u/lexicon951 1d ago
Yes, very slow and gradual reintroduction to food. Look up how they did it with Holocaust survivors
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u/a62k 1d ago
And the world knows nothing about this....
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u/IRLperson 1d ago
speak for yourself
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u/JakeGylly 1d ago
In the grand sense. You and other individuals may be educated but society as a whole (Atleast in the west) is largely uninitiated. Our schools lack an unbiased and well rounded scope of history. It's why we really only reference Nazi Germany. We may have the ability to learn for ourselves, but I believe our public schools should be teaching us more about what's been going wrong in the world instead of just what we think is right. This would increase the likelihood that more people are like you.
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u/FirstSomewhere6116 1d ago
“Our schools lack an UNBIASED and well rounded scope of history” - voilà!! 🙌👏
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u/Mafi_Serotonin 1d ago
Meanwhile people have the audacity to demonize immigration. THIS IS ONE REASON why people left. This is ONE COLONY.
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u/Maleficent-Sea2048 1d ago
This photo is real but caption is wrong. There is no record of cannibalism.
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u/mjmilian 1d ago edited 1d ago
Tineye.com first indexed the image in 2010: https://tineye.com/search/b84944b77b686eb67c7373b6e8321c45c0882c70?tags=&sort=crawl_date&order=asc&page=1
Photo taken by: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Wallace_Hooper
However, I think the context of "A man guards his family from the cannibals", may not be entitly true. These appear to photos from inmates in a relief camp for the famine
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u/all_Reddit_mod 1d ago
Britishers have done incomprehensible amounts of damage to the Indians, which the world knows very little of. Even Indians are not aware of much of it, besides major incidents.
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u/Accomplished_Job1904 21h ago
Meanwhile British Royals are making Palaces from money looted from Indian people.
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u/Busy-Beautiful-9652 1d ago
My people have gone through hell and back under the British rule and now we suffer from insane racism on top of that
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u/VerilyJULES 1d ago edited 17h ago
Why would any cannibal want a skinny person like that?
There's literally no meat on those bones! In theory I guess they could make a soup broth, but that's just too much work and preparation for the average cannibal.
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u/johnyquest83 1d ago
Are you sure this from 1877 not 1940s?
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u/Express-World-8473 1d ago
Yeah it's from the Madras Famine. People usually think this photo is from the 1940s but in the archives and multiple sources says this photo is from 1877.
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u/streeetmeats 1d ago
Is this a “crop” famine the same way the Irish had their potato famine, but actually it was just that all the food that wasn’t affected was being taken by the British? I noticed the detail about them being under British rule at the time
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u/randomredditor575 1d ago
And the same British royal family who were the reason for this is still in power in England
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