William Digby (writer)

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William Digby (birth - death 1918) was a British author and humanitarian. Digby was based in British-ruled India (see British Raj) where he was witness to several famines that devastated India, including a disastrous famine in Madras in the mid-1870s that killed millions. Digby objected to British policies which he blamed for fueling and exacerbating the famines, agitating for humanitarian aid from Europe to India.

Digby was the author of Prosperous British India, published in 1901, which claimed that the Industrial Revolution in Britain was funded substantially by wealth obtained from British-ruled India in particular.

He was also instrumental in forming the Congress Agency, British end of the Indian National Congress.