Winston Churchill hated South Asians. All the quotes in the post were taken from:
Madhusree Mukerjee. Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II. New York: Basic Books, 2010.
Churchill’s famine in the areas now in and near Bangladesh killed 5 million people by starvation and disease. It was not the first nor the worst famine during the British Raj. Here is a table from Wikipedia.
| Year | Name of famine | Mortality |
|---|---|---|
| 1769-70 | Great Bengal Famine | 10 million. (about one third of the then population of Bengal). |
| 1783-84 | Chalisa famine | 11 million people may have died during the years 1782-84. Severe famine. Large areas were depopulated. |
| 1791-92 | Doji bara famine or Skull famine | 11 million people may have died during the years 1788-94. One of the most severe famines known. People died in such numbers that they could not be cremated or buried. |
| 1837-38 | Agra famine of 1837-38 | 0.8 million (or 800,000). |
| 1860-61 | Upper Doab famine of 1860-61 | 2 million. |
| 1865-67 | Orissa famine of 1866 | 1 million (814,469 in Orissa, 135,676 in Bihar and 10,898 in Ganjam) |
| 1868-70 | Rajputana famine of 1869 | 1.5 million (mostly in the princely states of Rajputana) |
| 1873-74 | Bihar famine of 1873-74 | 0.0 million. An extensive relief effort was organized by the Bengal government. There were little to none significant mortalities during the famine. |
| 1876-78 | Great Famine of 1876-78 (also Southern India famine of 1876-78) | 5.5 million in British territory. Mortality unknown for princely states. Total famine mortality estimates vary from 6.1 to 10.3 million. |
| 1896-97 | Indian famine of 1896-97 | 5 million in British territory. |
| 1899-1900 | Indian famine of 1899-1900 | 1 million (in British territories). Mortality unknown for princely states. |
| 1943-44 | Bengal famine of 1943 | 1.5 million from starvation; 3.5 million including deaths from epidemics. |