Dalyrmple reading-

Unabated famine in colonial Bengal that it was difficult to carry on activities of the people.
Farm labourers began selling off their children.
Many people were dying and disease was spreading fast.
Famine was all over and were common place in india yet Mughal had set up a system of
graneries to keep food flowing
Tax was collected forcibly and sepoy platoons were sent to the countryside to collect the
taxes
Starving families were expected to pay up
Company merchants were hoarding grain and there were complaints
All across the streets of Calcutta there were cries of starvation and suffering people pleaded
for mercy and food
Many animals died of starvation , people could not touch fish and the river was full of
carcasses.
The company officials were happy that the taxes were received and while Bengal lay racked
up in famine .
Post 1770s the word spread about company inhumanity

One quote was particularly telling

“We have outdone the Spaniards in Peru! Theyw ere at least butchers on a however diabolical
religious principle,
their zeal. We have

what think you ofthe millions

murdered, deposed, plundered, usurped -say famine in Bengal, in which three

perished, being caused

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Company?Allthisiscome out, comingout inspired these horrors can quash them.
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The PM worried that the Asian principles of governance were being brought to England.
The London post published articles about the crimes and murders committed by the
company in Bengal.

Demands were made for enquiry into company corrupt practices in india.
Nabobs were under attack that they were dripping in diamonds, wanted to marry into
aristocracy and then buy a seat in parliament .