At least three million people were killed in the 1943 Bengal famine, during World War Two. It's one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side and there is no memorial to them ...

The devastating story of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. The causes of the famine are many ...

At Second P Sundarayya Memorial Lecture, Patnaik spoke about reliable sources of nutritional data being ‘undermined’, British ...

After holding the British responsible for the famine, she turned to the Second ... “It was then that the military authorities of colonial India started taking up a series of panic measures ...

Between 1769 and 1770 a famine hit the Bengal region ... This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company ...

and climate of British India. Here also some important information is given as to the degree in which each part of the country is exposed to famine. This is followed by a statement of the measures ...

Melondy Phillips Staff Writer Whether by flood, drought, disease, blight, war or political policy, famine stalks countries ...

That the British Government insures such liberty ... Every one who has gone much about India in famine times knows how true to life is this picture. Mr. Lilly estimates the number of deaths ...

William Collins has acquired Three Million, a "groundbreaking" investigation of the 1943 Bengal famine by Kavita Puri—this year’s chair of the Women’s Prize for non-fiction.

Gaza is in the grip of a food emergency as 1.84 million people in the enclave suffer from acute malnutrition at a level 10 times higher than before the Israel-Hamas war began, a new report says.