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famines were also a major and recurring sources of increased mortality ?critically evaluate this statement.​

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Famines were also a major and recurring source of increased mortality. ... However, as scholars like Amartya Sen and others have shown, famines were not necessarily due to fall in food grains production; they were also caused by a 'failure of entitlements', or the inability of people to buy or otherwise obtain food.

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