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...
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may refer to: Great Bengal famine of 1770 Bengal famine of 1873–1874 Bengal famine of 1943 Bangladesh famine of 1974 Famine in India This disambiguation...
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Famine of 1876–1878. A poster envisioning the future of Bengal after the Bengal famine of 1943. Government famine relief Ahmedabad, c. 1901. "Famine in...
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The Bengal famine of 1943-44 was a major famine in the Bengal province in British India during World War II. An estimated 2.1 million, out of a population...
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famines, including the Bengal famine of 1770, the Chalisa famine, the Doji bara famine, the Great Famine of 1876–1878, and the Bengal famine of 1943....
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Great Bengal famine of 1770 struck Bengal and Bihar between 1769 and 1770 and affected some 30 million people. It occurred during a period of dual governance...
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Henan Famine of 1942–1943 (Chinese: 河南大饑荒) occurred in Henan, most particularly within the eastern and central part of the province. The famine occurred...
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States. Bengal famine (disambiguation) Hunger in Bangladesh Rangan, Kasturi (13 November 1974). "Bangladesh Fears Thousands May Be Dead as Famine Spreads"...
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The Bihar famine of 1873–1874 (also the Bengal famine of 1873–1874) was a famine in British India that followed a drought in the province of Bihar, the...
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the 1943 Bengal famine. Controversially, it declined to blame the British government and emphasised the natural, rather than man-made, causes of the famine...
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Ian Stephens (editor) (category Alumni of King's College, Cambridge)
photographs, in August 1943, of the Bengal famine of 1943, which claimed between 1.5 and 3 million lives. The publication of the images, along with Stephens'...
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The first Partition of Bengal (1905) was a territorial reorganization of the Bengal Presidency implemented by the authorities of the British Raj. The reorganization...
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of rupees for famine relief in rural Bengal. The drama is about the Bengal famine of 1943 in which more than 2 million people died of starvation, malnutrition...
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in Satyajit Ray's Distant Thunder, a novel adaptation about the Bengal famine of 1943, which won the Golden Bear prize at the 23rd Berlin International...
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Bangladesh has undergone several changes of government since the Proclamation of Independence in 1971. Between the first recorded uprising in August 1975...
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Barisal as a result of the 1876 Bengal cyclone. The Bengal Presidency endured a vast famine between 1873 and 1874. The Bengal famine of 1943 killed an estimated...
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Permanent Settlement (redirect from Permanent Settlement of Bengal)
known as the Permanent Settlement of Bengal, was an agreement between the East India Company and landlords of Bengal to fix revenues to be raised from...
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history of West Bengal basically refers to the history of the western part of Bengal, located in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. Evidence of human...
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to 10 million people died. The famines were ended by the 20th century with the exception of the Bengal famine of 1943 killing an estimated 2.1 million...
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Bangladesh genocide (redirect from 1971 Bengal massacres)
of the newly formed state, although only four per cent of Pakistan's population spoke Urdu at that time. He mentioned that the people of East Bengal could...
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World War II casualties (redirect from List of World War II Casualties by Country)
2,615 dead and missing. Bengal famine of 1943 Cormac Ó Gráda (2007): "[E]stimates of mortality in [the Bengal famine of 1943] range from 0.8 million to...
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governor of the Mughal province of Bengal, taking advantage of the weakness of the declining Mughal Empire, declared the independence of Bengal and established...
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Non-cooperation movement (2024) (redirect from Resignation of Sheikh Hasina)
of Bangladesh, initiated within the framework of the 2024 Bangladesh quota reform movement. The sole demand of this movement was the resignation of Prime...
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Shiv Ramdas (category Date of birth missing (living people))
Laughing", published in 2019 in Strange Horizons, is set during the Bengal famine of 1943. It was nominated for both the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Short Story...
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Bengal (Bengali: পূর্ব বাংলা/পূর্ববঙ্গ Purbô Bangla/Purbôbongo) was the eastern province of the Dominion of Pakistan, which covered the territory of modern-day...
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