DID YOU KNOW?
Those who could not pay the British tax in India had their wives stripped naked dragged them from their homes, “put their nipples of the women into sharp edges of split bamboos and tore them from their bodies” – Madhursee Mukerjee #Churchill‘s Secret War
Such was the severity of the tax collectors of the British Empire Through 1770 the people went on dying Hunter (the Governor General) recounted “The husbandmen sold their cattle; they sold their implements of agriculture; they devoured their seed grain; they sold their sons and daughters, till at length no buyer of children could be found; they ate leaves off trees and grass from the fields and in June 1770 a resident of Murshibad affirmed the living were feeding on the dead. A third of all the people in Bengal numbering 10 million perished.
