The famine of 1770 in Bangladesh

Just came across a Guardian article which blamed UK Colonialism for the famine of 1770 in Bangladesh. The article outright claimed that the famine was "orchestrated" by the UK and claimed 10 million lives. It takes 2 seconds to find an academic study to confirm that the UK had NOTHING to do with the famine - it was 100% because of an exceptional and extremely rare drought! https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/land-and-local-kingship-in-eighteenthcentury-bengal/famine-of-1770/932B785B5186FD79ADB4EC5FF5127F85