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Bengal famine victim, 1943. The Famine Inquiry Commission, also known as the Woodhead Commission, was appointed by the Government of British India in 1944 to investigate the 1943 Bengal famine. [1] Controversially, it declined to blame the British government and emphasised the natural, rather than man-made, causes of the famine. [2]
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 ...
There have been several significant famines in the history of Bengal (now independent Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal) including: Bengal famine may refer to: Great Bengal famine of 1770; Bengal famine of 1873–1874; Bengal famine of 1943; Bangladesh famine of 1974
The Bengal famine of 1943-44 was a major famine in the Bengal province [A] in British India during World War II. An estimated 2.1 million, [B] out of a population of 60.3 million, [2] died from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, and lack of health care. Millions ...
Tilanjali is a 1944 Bengali language novel authored by Subodh Ghosh. [1] [2] The novel was published serially in Desh.[3]The novel is a love story set in the backdrop of the 1943 Bengal famine.
Nabanna is a Bengali language drama written by Bijon Bhattacharya in 1944 and staged by the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA) the same year under the joint direction of Sombhu Mitra and Bijon Bhattacharya, and in 1948, by Bohurupee under the direction of Sombhu Mitra. [1] The play is about the Bengal famine of 1943.
The book sets out to document how colonial policies and negligence created the condition for a famine to break out in the Bengal region. Mukerjee argues that due to Churchill's racial and political worldview the colonial government (under his supreme control) would, in the words of Lord Wavell, feed only those Indians who were "actually fighting or making munitions or working some particular ...
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.