More proximate causes included large-scale natural disasters in south-western Bengal (a cyclone, tidal waves and flooding, and rice crop disease). The relative ...

8 дней назад · The government's failure to halt rice exports or seek relief supplies from elsewhere resulted in a disaster that killed millions of people.

6 дек. 2022 г. · The interventions by the government of Bengal in the province's wholesale rice markets in 1942 and 1943 triggered the crisis. Greenough (1982) ...

29 мар. 2019 г. · A study that provides scientific backing for arguments that Churchill-era British policies were a significant factor contributing to the catastrophe.

21 янв. 2022 г. · Most researchers agree that the crisis was human-made, triggered primarily by war-time inflation that pushed the price of food out of reach.

24 апр. 2023 г. · In October 1942, a large cyclone struck Bengal, destroying rice crops. By late 1942, a famine was beginning to set in. British policy decisions, ...

January 1, 1970. There's been much heated debate about Churchill's alleged culpability in the deaths of thousands of Indians during the Bengal Famine of 1943.

12 авг. 2021 г. · Even Mukerjee never blames Churchill for actually causing the Bengal Famine, but for compounding it by refusing to allow shipments of grain ...

27 янв. 2021 г. · Even Mukerjee never blames Churchill for actually causing the Bengal famine, but for compounding it by refusing to allow shipments of grain from ...