On the Indian independence map as “The Bengal famine”
1943–44 — Perhaps two to three million Bengalis died of starvation and disease while rice was exported and Churchill’s cabinet refused shipping. The causes remain disputed: denial policy, hoarding, the fall of Burma, and official callousness all enter the argument. The deaths do not. Remember them.
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