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The Great Bengal Famine of 1770: East India Company's Man-Made Catastrophe
In 1770, Bengal experienced one of the deadliest famines in history, with an estimated ten million deaths — roughly one-third of the population. But this was no natural disaster. Lucas and Luna explore how the East India Company's policies after the Battle of Plassey created the perfect conditions for catastrophe: exorbitant land taxes, the monopolization of grain, and the diversion of rice fields to opium poppies. They trace the famine's roots to the Company's assumption of the diwani (revenue collection rights) in 1765, the ruthless collection methods of officials like Warren…
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