Question

Write about the famine of bengal of 1770 to 1772

Answer 1

 The Famine of '76) was a famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India from Bihar to the Bengal region. The famine is estimated to have caused the deaths of up to 10 million people.[3] Warren Hastings's 1772 report estimated that a third of the population in the affected region starved to death.[4]
The famine is one of the many famines and famine-triggered epidemics that devastated the Indian subcontinent during the 18th and 19th century.[5][6][7] It is usually attributed to a combination of reasons and the policies of the British East India Company. The start of the famine has been attributed to a failed monsoon in 1769 that caused widespread drought and two consecutive failed rice crops.[4] The poor infrastructure investments in pre-British period, devastation from war, and exploitative tax revenue maximization policies of the British East India Company after 1765 crippled the economic resources of the rural population.[4][8] Nobel prize winning Indian economist Amartya Sen describes it as a man-made famine, noting that no previous famine had occurred in Bengal that century.[9]

The Bengali name "Chhiattōrer monnōntór" is derived from Bengali calendar year 1176 and the word for famine ("Chhiattōr"- "76"; "monnōntór"- "famine" in Bengali).[10]

Answer 2

• The famine of Bengal from 1770 to 1772 is known as the Great Bengal Famine of 1770.

• The famine had a drastic impact on the lower part of the Gangetic plain in India starting from Bihar right up to Bengal.

• These areas were then under the governance of the British East India Company.