"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…"

"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…"

"Cholera swept through the starving refugees. A Western doctor described one camp: “Millions of flies were permitted u…"

"In spite of the worldwide population explosion that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the populat…"

"By 1892, a quarter of India’s total government revenue went to maintain the burden of the government itself: supporti…"

"One witness described a child of five he found among starving peasants: “Its arms were not so large around as my thum…"