The Raj conducted vile human experiments on starving Indians. Yet the Raj is not ever censured like other fascist regimes are. @PriyaSatia explains this dichotomy In Time's Monsters.

Let's look at some of these.

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1/n Starving Peasants were put in control groups to....study the effects of starvation

2) 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 to control

2/n for pre famine health factors and divided them outside and inside and still starved them...to see if it really was true. Fun fact, it was.

3) 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 4) Island jail of Andaman was notorious for Mengle type experiments. When it was set up (meant exclusively to hold "dangerous prisoners") mortality rates upwards of 70%, but a few Brits who had some morality left in them, protested& this reduced to 15-20% later on.

4/n 4a) 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? Like in the count of Monte Cristo, weighed down in a tarp and sunk in the waters of the prison!

5/n 5) even the prison was designed to break a prisoner before he even got there because the Brits studied Hindu scriptures and saw a few prohibitions on traversing water & purposely designed "kaala Pani" (black water) to mentally and physically break these poor souls.

6/n 6) The British Dr Mengle (many were there, but this was the most notorious), Dr James Patison was on the first ship that came to the island. He oversaw the torture and deaths personally.

7) in the first lots, about 2k prisoners were dispatched and fully 1.5k died in

7/n months (an astonishing kill rate) and fresh lots dispatched.

8) there was a mass break out of some 300 of the remaining lot, but they really didn't go anywhere as the prison was surrounded by hostile cannibal tribes.

8/n Many were recaptured & on the orders of the good doctor Patison, hung. A group of 80 surrendered, the good Dr Patison ordered all of them hung on the same day.

9) all this promoted some protests but the good doctor faced nary an action and he continued his good works.

9/n 10) 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 that idea got nixed.

11) within 2 years fully 4k of the total 8k shipped over were dead!

10/n The good Dr Patison was sacked finally. But afaik nothing ever came of this anymore to harm him or his reputation, after all, what's a few brown savages between friends.

12) they did replace him with one Dr Reid, and this gent under the orders of

11/n the govt (and private pharma) promptly started human trials on the prisoners. Many died of Diarrhea.

13) 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

12/n even if one survived the punishment was death so dead either way. Yeah that's right Indians killed themselves rather than die through these medicinal trials.

You also had priests who raped the native island women, kidnapped the children for the soul and

13/n literally genocided tribes through syphilis!

The British were just as bad as the Germans or Japanese and forget acknowledgement, they don't even talk about it!

Bonus - British experimented on Indians to test the efficacy and fallout of using mustard gas.