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Economic Policies and Famine in British India
42:50 - 49:22 (06:31)
The British East India Company passed work schemes during a period of famine in India to prevent giving out money as aid. Charles Trevallion, an employee of the company, was obsessed with preventing aid from going to people who didn't deserve it. The economic policies that exacerbated the famine were set up prior, and Sir Robert Peel deserves much of the blame for it.
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Charles Trevallion, a notable employee of the British East India Company, was anti-corruption and paranoid that people might obtain aid they didn't deserve.
42:50 - 46:38 (03:47)
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Charles Trevallion, a notable employee of the British East India Company, was anti-corruption and paranoid that people might obtain aid they didn't deserve. He married into a family that helped to abolish slavery in the British Empire, allowing him the ability to morally divide up his inheritance if it originated from slave money.
ChapterEconomic Policies and Famine in British India
EpisodePart Two: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland
PodcastBehind the Bastards
Peel’s Indian corn deal helped alleviate the crippling famine in Ireland in 1845, but his prior economic policies may have laid the groundwork for the disaster it became.
46:38 - 49:22 (02:44)
Summary
Peel’s Indian corn deal helped alleviate the crippling famine in Ireland in 1845, but his prior economic policies may have laid the groundwork for the disaster it became.