1876 1877 1878 1879 Famine Genocide in British Raj Madras India
Digby estimated 10.3 million people starved to death most of which were in South India (some refer to the tragedy as the Madras famine). Maharatna estimated 8.2 million died from hunger and diseases that followed. British colonial rule argued that famine relief would be an inappropriate response and encourage laziness. Some officials argued the Thomas R Malthus theory that famines are a nature's way for population control and argued British government should not intervene. British government continued its policy of "forced export" of food from India in 1876-1879, while the famine swept among its people.
The poverty, misery and diseases wiped out villages and families. Some farmers and their families committed suicide during this 3 year period from the trauma and the extended period of starvation. Parents killed themselves so that their children could eat the remaining scraps of food, creating a pool of abandoned and foresaken children.
Photograph by Willoughby Wallace Hooper
For more on the famine, see Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis
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Willoughby Wallace HooperWilloughby Wallace Hooper byl anglický vojenský fotograf. Během britské okupace se stal známý svými fotografiemi obyvatel Barmy a Indů. Hooper přispěl základním vizuálním materiálem pro etnicky – rasistické osmidílné dílo The People of India. Dokumentoval hladomor v Indii v letech 1876–1879, pořizoval portréty hladovějících lidí upravené ve stylu buržoazních rodinných fotografií. Jeho fotografie indického lovu tygrů zdobily pouliční lampy v Anglii. V roce 1886 se Hooper dostal pod vlnu kritiky veřejnosti poté, co zdokumentoval a zveřejnil fotografii z popravy povstalců v Mandalaji. .. pokračovat ve čtení