THE BENGAL FAMINE. Share full article. March 20, 1874. ... After the exaggerated reports which have been published in this City for sensational effect, of the condition of the people in Bengal, ...

The Bengal famine of 1943-45 was meticulously documented by a tabloid-sized weekly magazine called People’s Age, which was published by the Communist Party of India and cost two annas - a price ...

A sample survey of after-effects of the Bengal famine of 1943. Sankhyā: the Indian Journal of Statistics (1933–1960), 7 (4), 337–400. Maharatna, A. (1992).

The Bengal administration’s record of having repeatedly and stridently claimed sufficiency placed the Famine Commission in a bind. It was required to find that the famine was due to food shortage, as ...

The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than three million people in eastern India. It was one of the worst losses of civilian life on the Allied side in World War Two. There is no memorial, museum ...

For centuries, colonial powers have used starvation as a tool to control Indigenous populations and take over their land and wealth. A look back at two historic examples on two different continents.