I've got to take the bait. Millions every year? 1858-1947 would be 89 years. Millions per year would be around 270 million. What was the British methodology for starvation? I'm familiar with the British Corn Laws concerning Ireland, but in all my reading on the Raj I've never come across anything like what your are talking about.
Forceful cultivation of Indigo in place of foodcrops to keep the Industrial revolution fed......
Prohibitive taxrates as well as restrictions on sales of indegnious items throughout the British colonies...
The unbelievably callous handling of the Great Bengal famine of 1943 which left over 3 million dead...
Actually British ruled India from 1750-1950 ..thats 200 years. 1858 is the year when the Queen officially declared herself the head od state of India. Before that British ruled India as under East Indi Company.
270 million may be a strech ...but there were 50-60 serious artifically created famines during the 200 year British rule. Estimates are during each famine , 2-3 million poor Indians were starved to death. Thats easily 100 million starvation deaths. Considering the subcontinent's population was maintained constantly at 350 millionm (1750)-550 million(1940) ...that was still manageable.
Famines never happened before British came to India. As I said before they were artifically created by British by heavy taxation of poor farmers and holding of food stocks.
You may not have heard of it because the historians in the west have deliberately ignored the ill effects of British rule to make it look like even benign and kindhearted.But every Indian school kid is taught a slightly different version.
But thats okay..lot of water has flown below the bridge and we have moved on.