Indian independence · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Bengal famine (1943–44)
On the Indian independence map as “The Bengal famine”
1943–44 — Perhaps two to three million Bengalis die of starvation and disease while rice is exported and Churchill’s cabinet refuses shipping. Denial policy, hoarding, the fall of Burma, official callousness — the causes are argued; the dead are not. Remember them.
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- Quit India and the Bengal famine (chapter 11 of Indian independence)
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- Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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