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by randomcarbloke 583 days ago
>Indians were systematically starved to feed frontlines of war we had nothing to do with

By a cyclone, accidents, and japanese blockades, the independent states suffered more because of poor infrastructure, lastly it was only known to Britain come August '43 whereupon 150,000 tonnes of wheat were redirected from Iraq and Aus.

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This is the view advanced by Churchill and his hagiographers but it's false; there is correspondence from 1942 that warned that the ramifications of policies going all the way to March of that year had been dire, and the war cabinet simply dismissed them.