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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teaching improved farming techniques makes up for this hypothetical increase in deaths.  I don't see any causal explanation for these excess deaths or lower living standards.  Did the British salt the earth so farms wouldn't get crops? 
 
Could it be that higher population itself increased the poverty rate? More poor people having more kids would boost a poverty rate very high.[/quote]

Britain was exporting food out of Bengal to the UK (on those much-praised trains) while the Bengal Famine was killing millions in the region. The same thing happened during the Irish Potato Famine.

The point of colonialism is exploitation of the colony for natural resources to go back to the mother country, not development of the colony. The British outlawed textile production in India [b]so that Indians would have to buy British textiles weaved using exported Indian cotton[/b]. [/quote]

IOW, the British were lousy at colonization.  The point of colonialism is not to create markets in India, or at least it shouldn't have been, although that's one of the things that the UK did.  [/quote]

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