but when in Southern India alone six millions have perished by starvation in one year's famine, the causes must lie deeper beneath the surface. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

In 1876, the federal government passed the first Indian Act, declaring all natives ... was the promise of food for natives in times of famine. Indians were told that they could continue to hunt ...

Indian democracy has survived to hold the world’s two largest free elections; and against the immensity of its problems, even to have survived was triumph. Fees & Famine. Yet India’s tenth ...

As many as three million people died in the Bengal famine of 1943 after Japan captured neighbouring Burma -- a major source of rice imports -- and British colonial rulers in India stockpiled food for ...

This number contains the completion of two interesting papers, by Mr. E. D. Archibald, on Indian famine-causing droughts, and their prevision. The principal facts are summarised as follows ...

The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. "Three million is great radio ...

A political row erupted in Odisha after Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan suggested renaming the 156-year-old ...

The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than three million people in eastern India. It was one of the worst losses of civilian life on the Allied side in World War Two. There is no memorial ...

Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday triggered a controversy when he suggested that the name of Ravenshaw ...

In July 2024, a judgment by the Famine Review Committee (FRC) confirmed the plausible presence of famine conditions in the Zamzam internally displaced persons (IDP) camp located in the state of North ...

El Nino exerts powerful control on Earth's climate today. Evidence from the past shows it can be volatile and undergo lasting change. How will it affect us in the future? Nineteenth century ...

The process of categorisation of food and non-food is complex. The ability to classify is essential for survival and requires the integration of multisensory information and semantic memory with ...