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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society
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How Many People Died in the Famine?
At the time were people pointing out this was a really twatty thing to do. How many people died in the famine? Three million is the estimate up to three million that's Indian estimates of course our estimates put it a lot lower but yeah Indian stats say up to 3 million deaths as a result of that. So people at the time did want to yes public awareness I'm not so sure of because again it's wartime and whether that would have dampened morale and not got in the news is very likely. But he's viewed so negatively in India now a politician for example put him on the same killterers Stalin and Hitler for goodness sake.
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