- Friday, April 26, 2024
By: Keerthi Mohan
by AMIT ROY THE curator of a new exhibition on Queen Victoria at Kensington Palace, Polly Putnam, has been honest about not sanitising the nature of British rule in India. For example, a caption to images of starving Indians taken from the Illustrated London News of 1877 could not be more blunt: “It is clear that British involvement in India was fundamentally exploitative. Food and profits were directed away from India towards Britain, which contributed to famines across the region. Between 1876 and 1878, an estimated 5.5 million people died from hunger in British territories.” “However, Victoria’s relationship with India…
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