ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the deaths and sickness due to the famine were ongoing while back in England the focus was on the parliamentary investigation. The support of laissez-faire economics is startling in light of the famine’s devastating effects, while the brief account of prices being hiked on grain illustrate how life and death were inexorably going on in Orissa despite any actions parliament would take regarding Beadon and Lawrence’s behaviour. The tendency of the non-official class of a conquering race in a conquered country is what it has always shown itself to be, most notably perhaps in Spanish America, and to a certain extent in all colonies of whatever country,—the identical tendency which induces big boys at a school to fag and bully little boys,—a tendency towards aggression, violence, and hatred of official control. Facts of a truly appalling character are continually cropping up in all manner of directions, but principally in that of Orissa.
