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India was a champion of the Free World, we respect India's WW2 struggle in this house (lemmy.world)
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[–] [S] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Taxes in India were significantly increased by Britain during the war, almost tripling if memory serves. India was still quite impoverished at this time, so it's no exaggeration to say that this imposition represented a massive extraction of wealth from India.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not to mention the Bengal famine of 1943, which is apparently due to Churchill diverting the food resources to the soldiers, starving the population: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I did a deep dive on that a few years ago. The claim that food was diverted from india comes from a single book written by a guy whose entire career is based on that book. And there is no actual documentation to show that any food was actually diverted, the closest you can get is that food shipments from Australia heading towards the med went close to India.

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