Como o LIVRE MERCADO INGLÊS Matou 60 Milhões na Índia | Ep. 3

Follow me on Instagram:   / filipeboni   Pix key for contributions (thank you very much!): [email protected] Become a channel member to access exclusive videos, early access content, and mini-courses based on the channel's content:    / @filipe_boni   Official channel t-shirts: https://filipeboni.myshopify.com In this video, I analyze how the colonial famines in British India were not caused by nature, but by the imperial economic system itself. The central question is: how could an empire export grain while tens of millions of people starved to death in the same territory? Between the end of the 18th century and 1947, India lost between 30 and 60 million people to famine. Not due to a lack of food. Due to a lack of purchasing power, extortionate taxation, forced exportation, and an economic ideology that treated death as a market equilibrium. I analyze the concrete mechanisms of this process: the forced deindustrialization of Indian textile manufacturing, the land restructuring that destroyed local economies, and the so-called Wealth Drain, the system by which the colonial government used the very money confiscated from Indians to buy their agricultural production and export it to Europe. I also explain the role of British railways, which imperial historiography celebrates as modernization, but which in practice functioned as infrastructure for depopulation. During droughts, trains did not bring food to the affected regions. They carried local stocks to the ports. The geographical isolation that previously protected the villages was destroyed by integration into the global market. Finally, I analyze the Bengal Famine of 1943, which killed between 2 and 3 million people during World War II, without drought and without a drop in production. A famine produced by deliberate economic policy, military confiscation of stockpiles, and artificial inflation. I also discuss the debate between Amartya Sen, Mike Davis, and Utsa Patnaik regarding the structural causes of this genocide.