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 ...

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