 A commercial town turned into a graveyard under British oppression and looting. With the responsibility of revenue collection in the hands of the company, excessive revenue collection started from farmers and traders. Bengali 1176 and English 1770. A terrible famine occurred only 13 years after the fall of Siraj. Sonar Bengal became a graveyard. About 1 crore people died in this famine. It was one of the worst famines in the world.
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Until the fall of Sirajuddaula in 1757, Suba Bengal was one of the richest and happiest people in the world. Many Europeans of that time said that there were at least three types of dishes in the dishes of the people of Bengal. Eating ghee and butter was common for them. The clothes they wore were unimaginable to Europeans, enviable. At that time, Bengali merchants used to reach as far east as Indonesia with Bengali products.Â
after When the Nawab fell, Robert Clive bought the East India Company Bengal, Bihar and Odisha taxes from the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II for only one and a half lakh rupees after the new Nawab succeeded him three times. Robert Clive then calculated that after paying one and a half lakh taka, the company owed about 16 lakh taka. In reality it exceeds crores of rupees. Since then, a city full of grain and goods turned into a Shashman Ghat. Dhaka city is the most in crisis.
A commercial town turned into a graveyard under British oppression and looting. With the responsibility of revenue collection in the hands of the company, excessive revenue collection started from farmers and traders. Bengali 1176 and English 1770. A terrible famine occurred only 13 years after the fall of Siraj. Sonar Bengal became a graveyard. About 1 crore people died in this famine. It was one of the worst famines in the world.
The cause of the famine was not that the crop production was low, the cause of the famine was the excessive tax collection that year. The revenue collected the year before the famine was one and a half crores of rupees. And in the year of famine, 5 lakh 22 thousand rupees were collected more than the previous year. At that time the price of muslin in Dhaka was sky high. And even if the company brought milled cloth from Britain, it would not work here.
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Then they started cutting off the fingers of our muslin producing weavers so that they could not weave muslin. Throughout the Mughal period, Suba Bengal was ruled under 19, later 34 minor Nawabs and Rajas. Mughal rule was very lax during most of that reign. Bengal was under Mughal rule for 230 years. There has been no famine in Bengal in these 230 years. After Mir Kashim's defeat at the Battle of Buxar in 1764, the Company bought the Diwanis of Bengal, Bihar and Orissa from Shah Alam II.
Then after only 6 years in 1770 or Bengal 1176 there was a famine in which about 1 crore people died. This history is the result of brutal, horrific colonial exploitation. We really need to recalculate how many people they forcibly enslaved between the rule of the company and the rule of Britain, we can't do it today, we hope it will take our generation one day. In 1943 at the end of World War II, about 300,000 people in Bengal died of starvation.
This famine was not due to a drop in crop production, but because all food grains from Bengal were being stored in Britain during World War II. While only 40,000 British soldiers fought in the battle, there were about 160,000 Indian soldiers. Indians died indiscriminately on the battlefield. The matter was reported to the then British Prime Minister Churchill before the famine alarm was sounded. The king at the time was George VI, father of Elizabeth II.
Churchill gave a poor answer. Queen Elizabeth II is the symbol of Britain, British colonialism, which turned a golden country into a morgue.Â
Elizabeth II is dead. Died at a mature age. We agree, any death is painful but the grief of the people of East Bengal over the death of Queen Elizabeth II is different, mixed with blood and betrayal.
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History never dies. Bahadur Shah Park, the park in Dhaka where the bodies of India's first independence revolutionaries were hanged in 1857. And Sirajuddaula's body was dragged to the city. If the British colonial documents are moved, it must become unsightly! How can people be so greedy! During that period, the young youth workers and peasant groups gave their lives without hesitation in order to get rid of the British exploitation. The largest part of those revolutionaries was from Bangladesh.
Our forefathers fought for freedom risking their lives, standing in front of gruesome interrogations. And we are sorry that we could not cry knowing the death of the colonial exploits! It is not possible to betray the self-sacrifice of our great fighting ancestors. The sighs of our revolutionaries in the districts of the Andaman Islands float in the air of Bengal.
Nature smells of blood, Let the fashionable generation drink with that blood Scotch whiskey, Johnnie Walker Redlevel! Tell me, who is behind the theft of Kohinoor and the plight of thousands of Muslims in Palestine? Who has filled the cup with the blood of the people of this world for hundreds of years? So bye, bye evil robber queen Elizabeth II, bye….