Derek: Opium for the people sells well there. I am constantly amazed both by the depth of ignorance perpetuated on the subject--and the number of knowledgeable Indians who write to say that Churchill was more right than wrong when he called certain politicians "rascals, rogues and freebooters." See for example: https://richardlangworth.com/indiarascals ....including the comments under the article.
On the 1943 famine, see "Did Churchill Cause the Bengal Famine?" at: https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.edu/did-churchill-cause-the-bengal-famine/ Arthur Herman, author of the Pulitzer-nominated *Gandhi & Churchill, *reviewed the Mukerjee book in *Finest Hour *149: "Absent Churchill, India's 1943 Famine would have been Worse." Accessed at http://bit.ly/2ltwaXl -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ChurchillChat" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to churchillchat+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to churchillchat@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/churchillchat. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
