the famine of Bengal causes a having devastation explain .
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Famine refers to extreme shortage of food primarily due to supply shortages and less frequently due to in-efficient allocation of the existing supply combined with a policy failure to tackle the situation. The later was what happened in the Bengal famine of 1943.
Bengal has had its fare share of famines in the past including 1770, 1783 and 1897, but the most recent one, of which often British Raj is accused of was in 1943. The famine led to the death of around 3 to 4 million Indians, either due to starvation or due to famine related diseases. Winston Churchill’s comment on the famine, reflects the sheer neglect of British Government towards Indians and their plight:
“I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion. The famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits.”