I stumbled upon some disturbing figures about British India how much of this history do we really know ???
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- The Bengal Famine of 1943: roughly 2.1 ~3 million deaths, according to commonly cited historical estimates.
- Indian soldiers in WWII: more than 2 million volunteers served in the British Indian Army,
- Colonial-era excess deaths: a 2022 study by Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel estimated 50~165 million excess deaths in India between 1881 and 1920, depending on the baseline used. The widely repeated figure of 100 million is therefore an estimate, not an undisputed historical death toll
I find these numbers staggering, but I don't want to repeat statistics without understanding how they were calculated
u/anatolileonov17 — 5 days ago