An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

In 1930 the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain s conscious and deliberate bleeding of India... [was the] greatest crime in all history . He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British in famines epidemics communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independ...See More