Famine had long been a part of life in Bengal, but the one that began in the late 1760’s was turned into a full blown humanitarian disaster by the East India Company. It’s hard to come to ...

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. "Three million is great radio ...

The podcast series sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Britain’s colonial history: the 1943 Bengal Famine, where an estimated three million Indians, who were British subjects, died. The ...

His Famine Sketches depict the devastating effects of the 1943 Bengal famine. The series brought the plight of the starving millions to public attention, and is considered one of the greatest ...

This was the harsh advice given to those feeling hunger pangs during the Bengal famine. The checkered cloth has seen working class folks through many hardships — from wiping sweat to using it as ...