Also weren’t the total Indian losses during the war only 89,000 thousand soldiers? Are you counting civilian deaths from the Bengal Famine? That was mostly concentrated in modern day Bangladesh though.

[–] Shezzagrad@lemmy.ml 3 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

No, civilian and military deaths account to 1.5-2.5 mill and 90k of it being military. Thing is, India was the British cash cow and we had to pay a ridiculous amount in blood, food and other supplies at the cost of our people. I think I was mistaken by thinking it was Punjab that paid 2 million deaths alone. But that's excluding famine as the Bengal famine alone killed 3 million and then the brutal partition that Britain enforced unto us (YES, enforced they divided the religion groups to make them squabble to leave a weakened and exploitable india) The total death count from beginning of ww2 to partition is up to 10 million

Read this to understand the impact Britian had on India and it's systemic failings that lead to over 100 million unnecessary deaths https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians

https://mid.ru/en/press_service/articles_and_rebuttals/rebuttals/nedostovernie-publikacii/1847688/#%3A%7E%3Atext=Using+average+statistical+data+and%2CBritish+colonial+rule+in+India.

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2023/1/7/on-the-mortality-crises-in-india-under-british-rule-a-response-to-tirthankar-roy