1. On Indians and the Bengal Famine (1943):

During the 1943 Bengal Famine, which killed an estimated 3 million people, Churchill refused to divert food aid and blamed the Indians:

• “Indians breed like rabbits.”

• When asked about sending aid, Churchill reportedly said the famine was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits.”

• He also remarked, “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” (referring to Hinduism)

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2. On Indigenous Peoples and Empire:

Churchill openly supported British imperialism and saw white British rule as inherently superior.

• “I do not admit… that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia… by the fact that a stronger race… has come in and taken their place.”

(House of Commons, 1937)

• He described Palestinians as “barbaric hordes who ate little but camel dung” and opposed granting Arabs autonomy over land in the Middle East.

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3. On Africans and Colonial Subjects:

• Churchill called Sudanese people “savages” and praised the British army’s machine-gunning of fleeing soldiers at the Battle of Omdurman in 1898.

• Of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya, he supported the British crackdown, which involved mass detentions and abuses. He viewed the rebellion as savage resistance to “civilization.”

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4. On Gandhi:

• He frequently mocked Gandhi, calling him a “half-naked fakir” and dismissing his peaceful resistance as dangerous to the British Empire.

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