How did the British officials react to the 1918 pandemic in India? What do you think is the
reason for such apathy?
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Answer:The 1918 Spanish flu epidemic played a part in India’s freedom struggle
In India, during the 1918 influenza pandemic, a staggering 12 million to 13 million people died, the vast majority between the months of September and December. According to an eyewitness, “There was none to remove the dead bodies and the jackals made a feast.”
At the time of the pandemic, India had been under British colonial rule for over 150 years. The fortunes of the British colonizers had always been vastly different from those of the Indian people, and nowhere was the split more stark than during the influenza pandemic, as I discovered while researching my PhD on the subject.
The resulting devastation would eventually lead to huge changes in India – and the British Empire.
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