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 ...

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 ...

Is there a case for reparations? Oxfam’s huge estimate of the money drained from India by Britain’s colonial rule does not ...

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 ...