"Let’s jump ahead a hundred years to a time when the whole of India had been brought under British control, and the Ea…"

"...The guiding philosophy at the time was that relief should be difficult to obtain in order to discourage the poor f…"

"The ration that Richard Temple distributed to each inmate of these labor camps was only two-thirds of what he had giv…"

"Temple and Lytton imposed the Anti-Charitable Contributions Act of 1877 on all of the lands under their control, whic…"

"...Lord Salisbury, the secretary of state for India, waffled on the proper response to the hunger. On the one hand, h…"

"..An English publisher tried to get his fellow journalists to investigate what was going on in India. “For long weary…"

"An 1878 government report on the famine absolved the government of all responsibility and blamed it entirely on the w…"

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