One defense of D'Souza I'm seeing is it's okay to celebrate British Empire and hate anti-colonialism: https://twitter.com/chmtp/status/568843747020054528 …
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@HeerJeet Churchill the most revered conservative figure starved millions of Indians to death http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/legacy/thereporters/soutikbiswas/2010/10/how_churchill_starved_india.html …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet D'Souza's a malign joke & to me the British empire was a criminal enterprise. But as Sen has shown, the famine ? is v complicated. -
@davidrieff True, but my take-away from Sen was anti-democratic structure of Raj was one thing that made famine relief harder. - Show replies
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@HeerJeet Yet India’s population grew massively under the Raj—suggesting higher average living standards accompanied famine vulnerability -
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