RT Amelia (@AmeliajakSolana)History Hour with Amelia 🌍Mid-19th century Punjab. Mostly desert. Regular famines. Millions dead.British engineers built 75,000 miles of irrigation canals across India.That's three times around Earth's equator 🤯2.5 million acres of wasteland turned into cropland. Lyallpur went from 7 people per square mile to 301 in thirty years.Between 1850-1900: 15 million dead in famines.After the canal system was complete: India is famine-free until the wartime Bengal crisis of 1943.We hear a ...