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The Forgotten Famine of 1770: How a British East India Company Dividend Starved Bengal

The Forgotten Famine of 1770: How a British East India Company Dividend Starved Bengal

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What does a shareholder dividend in London have to do with the skeletons lining the roads of rural Bengal? In 1770, the British East India Company presided over one of the deadliest famines in human history, killing an estimated 10 million people. Yet, in that same catastrophic year, the Company in London declared a record-high dividend of 12.5%. This episode uncovers the direct, chilling link between corporate profit and mass death. We trace the lethal logic of a colonial corporation. When drought struck, the Company’s rigid tax collection system, designed to extract maximum revenue for European investors, remained brutally in force. Rice was hoarded for export and speculation by Company agents, while local granaries were emptied to meet financial targets. We examine the ledgers, the ship manifests, and the ignored warnings that reveal this wasn't a natural disaster, but a fiscally-engineered catastrophe. Listeners will understand how the very architecture of the East India Company—a joint-stock corporation answerable to distant shareholders—incentivized genocide through negligence and greed. This is the story of how an empire’s most powerful engine of conquest became its most efficient instrument of collapse, hollowing out the very province that was its greatest source of wealth. When the bottom line becomes a death sentence. #BengalFamine #BritishEastIndiaCompany #CorporateColonialism #FaminePolitics #EconomicHistory #ColonialExtraction #ProfitOverPeople Hosted by Ibnul Jaif Farabi. Produced by Light Knot Studios (lightknotstudios.com).
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