[HN Gopher] The Attempted Assassination of Lord Lytton: A Letter...
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       The Attempted Assassination of Lord Lytton: A Letter's Story
        
       Author : pepys
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2022-11-26 05:40 UTC (17 hours ago)
        
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       | Isamu wrote:
       | Background from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India
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       | >Some prominent British citizens such as William Digby agitated
       | for policy reforms and famine relief, but Lord Lytton, the
       | governing British viceroy in India, opposed such changes in the
       | belief that they would stimulate shirking by Indian workers.
       | Reacting against calls for relief during the 1877-79 famine,
       | Lytton replied, "Let the British public foot the bill for its
       | 'cheap sentiment,' if it wished to save life at a cost that would
       | bankrupt India," substantively ordering "there is to be no
       | interference of any kind on the part of Government with the
       | object of reducing the price of food," and instructing district
       | officers to "discourage relief works in every possible way ....
       | Mere distress is not a sufficient reason for opening a relief
       | work."[81] The Lt.-Governor of Bengal, Sir Richard Temple,
       | successfully intervened in the Bihar famine of 1874 with little
       | to no mortality; this is the only known example of adequate
       | measures meeting a food crisis by the British.[82] Temple was
       | criticized by many British officials for spending too much on
       | famine relief.
        
       | fmajid wrote:
        
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