There is this trope that the Japanese and Germans conducted barbaric experiments on humans and the oh so civilised British didn't. Well, they were just as barbaric as the others, here are a few experiments they conducted on Indians over the ages

1/n Starving Peasants were put in control groups to....study the effects of famine. as mortality was reportedly high in "relief camps" (fun fact, in some Famines camps saw a near about 80% death rate) they took people from the same families .

2/n to control for pre famine health factors and divided them outside and inside and still starved them...to see if it really was true. British Joseph Mengle's then wanted to see just how less was less. The line that separates death and life in calorific intakes.

3/n the Island jail of Andaman was notorious for Mengle type experiments. When it was first set up (this was meant exclusively to hold "dangerous prisoners") the mortality rates were upwards of 70%, but the few Brits who had some morality left in them,

4/n protested & this reduced to the standard 15-20% later on. ironically when prisoners went on fast unto deaths to protest for better conditions, they were...drowned in food and milk (yes this literally happened). Their bodies?

5/n Like in the count of Monte Cristo, weighed down in a tarp and sunk in the waters of the prison!

The British Dr Mengle (many were there, but he was most notorious), Dr James Patison was on the first ship that came to the island. He oversaw the torture and deaths personally.

6/n in the first lots, about 2k prisoners were dispatched and fully 1.5k died in months (an astonishing kill rate) and fresh lots dispatched. he then hit on the idea that Hitler would have about 80 years later, brand the prisoners with a number on their forearm but thankfully

7/n the idea was nixed. they did replace him with one Dr Reid, and this gent under the orders of the govt (and private pharma) promptly started human trials on the prisoners. Many died of Diarrhea.

8/n as the medicine trials induced a horrible diet, Indian prisoners hit on a suicide pact, they would kill each other (in pairs), with the idea being well, death but even if one survived the punishment was death so dead either way. 9

9/9 Yeah that's right Indians killed themselves rather than die through these medicinal trials.

These things should be in our history books but sadly our history books only spew ganga jamuna tehjbeei