Question

How did the British officials react to the 1918 pandemic in India? What do you think is the reason for such apathy? (answer in 80-90 words)

Answer 1

Answer:

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.

Due to the dual gov. system in india during that period the british had income and the ruler only ha the responsibility of ruling. So no one gave relief to the people.

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Answer 2

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.

Explanation:

• Introduced in the Western Front trenches during the world war, the virus had ripped through the exhausted soldiers. The epidemic reached almost all parts of the world, as the war came to an end, including commercial roads and military transport. In late May, she arrived in Mumbai.
• It was not especially dangerous when the first wave of the pandemic came. The only warning that British officials got from the study was its effect on some staff. Because of his role as a commercial and city centre, Mumbai was also the infection center. On 19th September, 293 influenza deaths were confirmed to be recorded by an English newspapers. Nevertheless, the newspapers told readers that "the worst has now reached." Disaster & death had plagued both rural & urban areas. Indian newspapers said crematoria received between 150 and 200 carcasses a day
• However, geography was not the only aspect of division. In Mumbai, approximately 71⁄2 times as many Indians from the lower castes were killed than their British counterparts. Of the Indians in Mumbai, these different mortality rates were due to socio-economic inequalities as well as ethnicity. "An disproportionate mortality in Kidderpore seems to be mainly because of the huge manual labour population, who were ignorant and weak and live in most insanity in damp, dark & dirty huts, the head of health for the province of Calcutta said the disparity in death rates between "British &lower-class Indians". They are a challenging class to treat
• Although not all of them were affected similarly by influenza. The majority of British citizens settled in India lived in large houses with gardens and courtyards, relative to the lower classes of town-holders settled in densely populated areas. In times of health and illness many British hired family workers to take care of them so they were affected by the pandemic just a little bit and were generally not concerned about the country's turmoil.
• The "Lieutenant Governor" of the "United Provinces" did not even mention influenza in his official letter at the beginning of December. While several British Indians saw little effect on the pandemic, the view amongst Indians, who spoke of universal destruction, was very different. Normality did not come back to India   Another indication of British inequality has been influenza, which inspired Indians to struggle for freedom. A nationalist daily reporter said, "A administration could not have left something so untreated in any other civilised nation as the British Indian Government had done during a horrific and devastating epidemic.”

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