Essay on famine in Bengal
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The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India during ... Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future. Princeton University Press. pp. 38–91.
Total deaths: Estimated 2.1 to 3 million in Bengal alone
Period: 1943–1944
Country: British India
Location: Bengal and Orissa.
We find that the Bengal famine was likely caused by other factors related at least in part to the ongoing threat of World War II -- including malaria, starvation and malnutrition," he added. Previous research has shown that in early 1943, military and other political events adversely affected Bengal economy.
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