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Churchill and the Genocide Myth: Last Word on the Bengal Famine

Jan

2021

By ZAREER MASANI

Famine and Relief: Far from seeking to starve India, Churchill sought every possible way to alleviate the suffering without undermining the war effort.

Posted in: Churchill and the East, Truths and Heresies,

Tags: Amartya Sen, Archibald Wavell, Bengal famine, India, Indian Congress, Leopold Amery, Madhusree Mukerjee, Mahasabha, Mohandas Gandhi, Muslim League, Pakistan, Quit India Movement, Ramaswamy Mudaliar, Stafford Cripps, Subhas Chandra Bose, Tirthankar Roy, Victor Hope Lord Linlithgow, Winston S. Churchill, Zareer Masani,

The British Raj According to Tharoor: Some of the Truth, Part of the Time

Aug

2020

By TIRTHANKAR ROY

On the Raj, Tharoor offers a half-truth, which, “like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.”

Posted in: 2017, Books,

Tags: B.R. Ambedkar, East India Company, Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Robert Clive, Round Table Conference, Sashi Tharoor, Stephen Leacock, Tirthankar Roy, Winston S. Churchill,

Hearsay Doesn’t Count: The Truth about Churchill’s “Racist Epithets”

Jul

2020

By RICHARD M. LANGWORTH

Churchill's racial epithets were extremely rare. Most of the few that do exist come from only one source—which leads one to question how reliable it is.

Posted in: Churchill for Today, Truths and Heresies, Understanding Churchill,