Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "WW2 From India's Perspective | Animated History" video.

Do you think they would have fared well under the enlightened and benevolent supervision of the Japanese? Ask the inhabitants of Nanking. Or, at least, ask those who hadn't been used for bayonet & sword practice.
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Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India.
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@Bakasta170 It seems that you can only answer me by putting words into my mouth. The British officer who exceeded his authority at Amritsar was removed from his position, sent home to Britain, and never held command again. The Japanese behaviour in Nanking was in obedience to orders from their commanders. Are you so prejudiced that you cannot grasp the difference? I presume that there wasn't 'discrimination' in India between different Indian groups in society? Were you actually to read about the administrative structure of the Raj, you would learn that a tiny number of British civil servants were actually present in India. India was administered almost entirely by Indians, and the vast majority of Indians probably never even saw a white face. In point of fact, the initial acceptance in Britain that India should receive independence pre-dated WW2. The difficulty was working out the details, especially when people like Jinnah were determined to establish a Moslem state independent of India. Perhaps you know what actually happened during Partition? It is fascinating how, as events recede into history, the facts become distorted and two dimensional.
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Actually, the Bengal Famine had a number of causes, among which were the number of refugees from Japanese held areas, the inability to import food from those same areas, stockpiling by hoarders and, perhaps worst of all, the Bengal administration, which tried to minimise the crisis. The worst that could be said of Churchill was that he should have known what was taking place, but didn't. After all, in 1943, he had little else to worry about. You could also add the refusal of FDR to allow the transfer of merchant shipping, by the way. What is without dispute, except by those who choose to blame Churchill for everything since the Black Death, is that once he did find out, he transferred food distribution to the British Indian Army, and had grain convoys diverted from Australia to India. I appreciate, of course, that you won't believe any of this, as it doesn't suit the agenda. One wonders why, with 2.5 million Indian soldiers fighting for the Allies, those same allies would have sought to generate a famine? However, where revisionist prejudice is concerned, archive documents or common sense are best ignored.
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