Look at the name of that town closely, “Allahbad”. It’s clearly a Muslim town and it’s suffering massive amounts of poverty while the rest of India is on fire. Just saying.
Actually, the town’s name is Ganne. Per the article, it’s about 50km south of Allahabad, which is about halfway between Delhi and Kolkata. It’s no more a Muslim town than many others in India, and there are many villages like Ganne where poverty is endemic. For example, about 50km south of Bhubaneswar in Orissa there is a small village being slowly poisoned by a privately-owned (foreign owned) bauxite mining company. They too make almost nonexistent wages every day, on the order of a couple of dollars, and get virtually no help. Only in the larger cities is there any money, and even there, it is all too easy to find people living in tiny squatters shacks made from trash. India may be on fire, but there are many more people than there are jobs or even education.
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.
— Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).