The Bengal famine of 1943 killed more than three million people in eastern India. It was one of the worst losses of civilian life on the Allied side in World War Two. There is no memorial ...
New Delhi: A black-and-white photograph by Shamsul Islam Al-Majid ... If it was taken in 1974, it’s seen as evidence of the Bangladesh famine, if it’s 1975, it’s just regular hunger and ...
In Bengal, racked with post-famine epidemics, the Raj replaced the late Provincial Governor Sir John Herbert with handsome, able Australian Richard Gardiner Casey. The appointment of a Governor of ...
The forgotten story of World War II: the Bengal famine in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. "Three million is great radio ...