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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.
This is one scene of Chapter 9 — Quit India — and the Famine in Indian Independence & Partition, 1905–1948.
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