The Bambatha Rebellion cost roughly four thousand Zulu lives against eight white deaths

Evidence

The rebellion was eventually contained. Chief Bambatha was captured and beheaded. Four thousand Zulus were killed, thousands more flogged and imprisoned. Even Winston Churchill, Master of War, at the time Under Secretary of State, was disturbed by the violence. He said: “It is my duty to warn the Secretary of State that this further disgusting butchery will excite in all probability great disapproval in the House of Commons … The score between black and white stands at present at about 3500 to 8.” — Ambedkar, B R, Annihilation of Caste_ The Annotated…, 204

Categorization

• QUESTION: Churchill’s ‘3500 to 8’ scoreline — useful comparative casualty ratio worth verifying and possibly pulling into later writing on colonial violence costs.
• XREF: connects to: Colonial and racial violence has claimed tens of millions of lives worldwide
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Colonial and racial violence has claimed tens of millions of lives worldwide