Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the Britishin famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britains conscious and deliberate bleeding of India greatest crime in all history. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britains conscious and deliberate bleeding of India greatest crime in all history.
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