The devastating story of the Bengal Famine of 1943 in British India, where at least three million people died, told for the first time by the eyewitnesses to it. The causes of the famine are many ...

Between 1765 and 1900, the British Empire took $64.82 trillion from India during colonialism, a recent Oxfam report has found. Of this, more than 52 per cent of the wealth ended up in the hands of the ...

some with the procrastination of the British overlords—these successive steps were long delayed in Bengal. When the famine made Raj intervention an inescapable necessity, Lord Wavell first took ...

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 ...

Not surprisingly other British and foreign investors followed ... This siphoning of wealth was devastating for Bengal, resulting in the Bengal famine. The depopulation of Bengal led to a drop ...

Once the preserve of the royal and the rich, portraiture became a tool for artists Chittaprosad and Somnath Hore to document Bengal famine victims as fellow humans deserving of respect and not ...

John Cartier, Governor of Bengal, died on this day. Cartier was first employed as a writer for the British East India Company ...