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Malampandaram men in Kerala circa 1953.
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Anuradha Tiwari@talk2anuradha
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സർ ചാത്തൻ
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South India; where science, development, innovation, and spirituality meet. 📈🔥
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This is clip from Thrissur.
Pray tell what science, development, innovation is happening in Thrissur?
Thrissur must freed from trad NIMBYs and commies who want it to remain a stagnant temple town.
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South India; where science, development, innovation, and spirituality meet. 📈🔥
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Now I understand why communist revolutions were so successful in ending Monarchies !
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Menu of a state dinner hosted by Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad III of Baroda for Maharaja Madhavrao Scindia I of Gwalior, at Makarpura Palace on 29 January 1897.
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Maharaja Sayajirao Gaekwad is still fondly remembered in Uttar Gujarat. Old people still praises his rule. He established MSU and gave funds for BHU library. Btw he was actually the first one who to give patronage to Ambedkar and fund his education in USA.
So no commies couldn’t have done anything to him because he organized state dinner with fine taste.
AgentSaffron ANTI WAR OPEN HORMUZ STRAIT@AgentSaffron
Now I understand why communist revolutions were so successful in ending Monarchies !
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@AgentSaffron Why did Kerala become the home of India's most enduring communist movement? Look no further than the 1943 Travancore famine. A royal regime that starved 90,000. Diwan C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar who banned the press and jailed dissidents.x.com/SirChaathan/st…
സർ ചാത്തൻ@SirChaathan
What if one of the richest states in British India starved 90,000 of its own people & almost nobody noticed? That's exactly what happened in Travancore in 1943. Forgotten by history, overshadowed by Bengal famine, but it reshaped Kerala politics forever. 🧵 #Travancorefamine
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@pattaazhy While upper-caste historians celebrate queens and royal painters, they rarely mention this horror. x.com/SirChaathan/st…
സർ ചാത്തൻ@SirChaathan
The #CochinFamine of 1942-44 remains one of Kerala's forgotten tragedies. A severe food shortage gripped the region, yet the kingdom of Cochin suppressed information, making it sedition to publish facts about famine conditions.
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What if person who wrote this is a communist stooge trying to undermine achievements of Travancore kingdom for benefit of communist masters
Fact: yes there was food scarcity due to supply chain disruption from Burma. But there is not one official record of these mythical deaths
സർ ചാത്തൻ@SirChaathan
What if one of the richest states in British India starved 90,000 of its own people & almost nobody noticed? That's exactly what happened in Travancore in 1943. Forgotten by history, overshadowed by Bengal famine, but it reshaped Kerala politics forever. 🧵 #Travancorefamine
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3 million dead. Not by drought. By design.
This is Bengal. 1943. A mother sitting beside her starving child.
Bengal Famine of 1943 wasn’t a “natural disaster.”
It was a **wartime decision**.
Grain was there. Ships were there. Requests were made. Denied.
Because the empire needed food for war. Not for Indians.
While in Britain, families were told to **kill their own pets** to save rations.
Even animals were part of the calculation.
Now ask yourself:
Where did Indians stand in that hierarchy?
Below soldiers.
Below strategy.
Below empire.
This is not famine.
This is allocation.
And allocation is power.
So when someone calls colonialism “development” —
Show them this image.
#BengalFamine #Colonialism #HiddenHistory
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A man guards his family from the cannibals during the Madras famine of 1877 in India
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Why does Travancore famine matter in 2026? Because Kerala’s world-class Public Distribution System (PDS) was built on the ashes of this tragedy.
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The 2018 Malayalam film Bhayanagam (Fear) powerfully captures Travancore soldiers dying for an alien cause abroad. But the equally devastating famine deaths at home are left out, a reminder that even our art has forgotten Travancore's 90,000 deaths.
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What if one of the richest states in British India starved 90,000 of its own people & almost nobody noticed? That's exactly what happened in Travancore in 1943. Forgotten by history, overshadowed by Bengal famine, but it reshaped Kerala politics forever. 🧵 #Travancorefamine
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