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The Bengali name Chiẏāttôrer mônnôntôr is derived from Bengali calendar year 1176 and the Bengali word meaning famine. [a]The regions in which the famine occurred affected the modern Indian states of Bihar and West Bengal in particular, but the famine also extended into Orissa and Jharkhand as well as modern Bangladesh.
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
Great Bengal Famine: Bihar, Western Bengal: 2-10 million [32] [33] The Bengal region shown in a later map (1880) 1783–1784: Chalisa famine: Delhi, Western Oudh, Eastern Punjab region, Rajputana, and Kashmir: 11 million people may have died during the years 1782–1784. Severe famine. Large areas were depopulated. [34]
The Bengal famine of 1943 was the last catastrophic famine in India, and it holds a special place in the historiography of famine due to Sen's classic work of 1981 titled Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation whose accuracy and analysis has however been hotly contested by experts in the field.
Great Bengal famine of 1770, estimated to have caused the deaths of about 10 million people. [41] Warren Hastings's 1772 report estimated that a third of the population in the affected region starved to death. The famine is attributed to failed monsoon and exploitative policies of the East India Company. [42] 1771
The timeline of major famines in India prior to 1765 covers major famines recorded in India between 1900 BC and 1765 AD.The famines included here span the entirety of the Indian subcontinent, currently comprising the Republic of India, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
Bengal famine may refer to: Great Bengal famine of 1770; Bengal famine of 1873–1874; Bengal famine of 1943; Bangladesh famine of 1974; See also. Famine in India
There are 21 references to "famine" in the book. The first is to the Great Bengal famine of 1770 in which a quarter of the population of Bengal died (i.e. 10 million of 40 million people). The last but one is the Bengal famine of 1943 at the end of British rule. The last is to an economic crisis and food shortage that threatened a famine in the ...