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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 ...
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 first major famine of the 20th century was the Bengal famine of 1943, which affected the Bengal region during wartime; it was one of the major South Asian famines in which anywhere between 1.5 million and 3 million people died. [9] The era is significant also because it is the first period for which there is systematic documentation. [10]
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. [111]
The drama is about the Bengal famine of 1943 in which more than 2 million people died of starvation, malnutrition and disease. The main character is Pradhan Samaddar, a peasant in Bengal. The play presents the intensity of famine through the starvation of Pradhan Samaddar's family. Samaddar's family face a range of disasters during the food crisis.
The Bengal famine of 1943 occurred during World War II and caused the death of an estimated 2.1–3 million people. Partition of Bengal (1947) The partition of Bengal ...
Bengal famine of 1943 [1] 3 February - Howrah Bridge in Calcutta commissioned. 10 February – 3 March – Mohandas Gandhi maintains a hunger strike to protest his imprisonment. 21 October - Subhas Chandra Bose established Azad Hind at Singapore. [2] October - 1943 Madras floods. [3] 5 December – The Japanese attack the Port of Kolkata [4]
"The Bengal Famine of 1943 stands out as a great calamity even in an age all too familiar with human suffering and death on a tragic scale." — The opening sentence of Famine Inquiry Commission (1945), Report on Bengal , Government of India Press, quoted in W. R. Aykroyd (1974), The Conquest of Famine , London: Chatto&Windus.