"Western colonialism was...both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate"

Let's talk about this http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01436597.2017.1369037?journalCode=ctwq20

Starting with famine. British policies and inaction led to numerous famines in colonial India. Millions died in each famine+

1773: Bengal famine, ~10 million dead.
1783-84: North India, ~11 million dead.
1791: Madras Presidency, ~11 million dead
There's more

1837/1860: Agra region, 2.8 million dead
1865: Odisha, 1 million dead
1868: Rajputana, 1.5 million dead
1876: South India, ~10 million
Dead

1896: countrywide, 5 million dead

1899: middle/south India, 1 million dead
1943: Bengal, 5 million dead
~58 million dead in 170 yrs due to colonial fucking benevolence

1.3 million Indian soldiers fought in WW1. 74,000 died in service of colonialism. 2.5 million fought in WW2, about 87,000 died.

Millions of people died in the Bengal famine because Winston Churchill did not want to help them, that old racist fuck, but sure, benevolent

Thread picks up here https://twitter.com/anthrocharya/status/907573149918810112