A brief summary on the famine commission which was formed during British India, which is very useful for the competitive examinations like UPSC-prelims, SSC, State Services, NDA, CDS, and Railways ...

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Srimanjari, who teaches at Miranda House and has author ed the book, Through War and Famine, called the 1943 disaster an “absolutely man-made famine.” After holding the British responsible for ...

In India a strongly marked yearly periodicity is everywhere observed, the chief fall occurring, with few exceptions, in the summer months, between May and October, in the season commonly known as ...

At least three million people were killed in the 1943 Bengal famine, during World War Two. It's one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side and there is no memorial to them ...

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Voices from India. Famine is no new tale in India. There were hunger plagues in 1867, 1878, ... Said the liberal New Statesman and Nation: “The British Raj has failed in a major test. …” ...

BECAUSE of its large population, its feudal landholding system and the ravages of British imperialism, India had been subject to regular food shortages and famines over many years. However, the Bengal ...

Between 12 and 29 million Indians died of starvation while it was under the control of the British Empire, as millions of tons of wheat were exported to Britain as famine raged in India.

What British pupils should know about Britain’s rule of India: a history teacher’s view Tom Allen says that teachers need to offer more than a list of its positive and negative effects ...