where'd you get these numbers? maximum counts for both iran and bengal are in the neighborhood of 3 million, that'd be parity with jewish victims of the holocaust, and less than half of the overall non-combatant victims of the nazis.
and the highest estimates for iranian deaths both in ww1 & 2 are working from United States population estimates, which is a strange source to put faith in
For bengal ive heard 20 million as a conservative estimate. The iranian famines are estimated from 1 to 13 million. Bu we know that the qajars had a similar revenue as the otoman empire. So we asume a simiral or larger population given that the otomans probably had higher tax eficiency. Yet at some point in the early to mid 20th century iranian population is reduced by half. So that it is now similar to turkey alone. The famine probably acounts for a large portion of that.
20 million in bengal would've been a straight third of the population & i cannot find any references to such. 13 million iranians would be quite close to the entire population of iran, depending on your source.
these are wildly inconsistent numbers with any references i can find online, and while im willing to entertain some amount anglophone bias in the data the fact i can't even find 'disreputable' assertions resembling yours does not give me much confidence. i feel like you've combined/seen combined stats of fatalities over multiple events and pegged them to the ww2 churchill ministry.
there's no doubt such deaths can be blamed on the british over centuries of time, just not during ww2's duration
where'd you get these numbers? maximum counts for both iran and bengal are in the neighborhood of 3 million, that'd be parity with jewish victims of the holocaust, and less than half of the overall non-combatant victims of the nazis.
and the highest estimates for iranian deaths both in ww1 & 2 are working from United States population estimates, which is a strange source to put faith in
For bengal ive heard 20 million as a conservative estimate. The iranian famines are estimated from 1 to 13 million. Bu we know that the qajars had a similar revenue as the otoman empire. So we asume a simiral or larger population given that the otomans probably had higher tax eficiency. Yet at some point in the early to mid 20th century iranian population is reduced by half. So that it is now similar to turkey alone. The famine probably acounts for a large portion of that.
20 million in bengal would've been a straight third of the population & i cannot find any references to such. 13 million iranians would be quite close to the entire population of iran, depending on your source.
these are wildly inconsistent numbers with any references i can find online, and while im willing to entertain some amount anglophone bias in the data the fact i can't even find 'disreputable' assertions resembling yours does not give me much confidence. i feel like you've combined/seen combined stats of fatalities over multiple events and pegged them to the ww2 churchill ministry.
there's no doubt such deaths can be blamed on the british over centuries of time, just not during ww2's duration
That figure might be for a longer timeframe