India's secret history: 'A holocaust, one where millions disappeared...'

Author says British reprisals involved the killing of 10m,
spread over 10 years

A controversial new history of the Indian Mutiny, which broke out 150 years ago and is acknowledged to have been the greatest challenge to any European power in the 19th century, claims that the British pursued a murderous decade-long campaign to wipe out millions of people who dared rise up against them.In War of Civilisations: India AD 1857, Amaresh Misra, a writer and historian based in Mumbai, argues that there was an "untold holocaust" which caused the deaths of almost 10 million people over 10 years beginning in 1857. Britain was then the world's superpower but, says Misra, came perilously close to losing its most prized possession: India.

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Viewpoint: How British let one million Indians die in famine

By Dinyar PatelHistorian

• 11 June 2016

On a flying visit to Orissa in February 1866, Cecil Beadon, the colonial governor of Bengal (which then included Orissa), staked out a similar position

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31 famines in 120 years of British Raj, the last one killed 4 million people in 1943

Sanghita Sanyal

18th Aug 2017

Seven decades down the timeline, Indians hail the famine victims as unsung heroes of a different history. Bengal, however, paid the price for colonialist’s whims and couldn't survive the pangs of hunger and malnutrition.

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