Hunger And Holocaust Three Trembling Famine Of Colonial Bengal

The bliss of colonial rule transformed a once prosperous Bengal into a state of pauperization. Recurrent Famine became a unique characteristic under the good governance of British rule. From 1765 to 1947 the country had witnessed numerous famines which perished more than 60 million Indians. among these Bengal witnessed three deadly famines which perished around 17 million people. Who was responsible for this destitution? Who was to blame? It was not an act of God, it was Imperial Holocaust or British Colonial Holocaust.

Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.

The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the British/American war against Japan, Bengal stood at the crossroads of complex and contentious structural forces - both domestic and international - which, taken together, defined an era of political uncertainty, social turmoil and collective violence. While for the British the overarching priority was to save the empire from imminent collapse at any cost, for the majority of the Indian population the 1940s were years of acute scarcity, violent dislocation and enduring calamity. In particular there are three major crises that shaped the social, economic and political context of pre-partition Bengal: the Second World War, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Hungry Bengal examines these intricately interconnected events, foregrounding the political economy of war and famine in order to analyse the complex nexus of hunger, war and civil violence in colonial Bengal at the twilight of British rule.

A Thorugh Documentation Of The Bengal Famine Of 1943 And Its Aftermath. Without Dustjacket.

This book is a commentary on the 1944 book Panchasher Manwantar by Syama Prasad Mookerjee, a political stalwart of the time. In his book, Syama Prasad argues that the famine of 1943-44 that is said to have caused the death and displacement of three million people, tearing apart Bengal's social and economic fabric, was a man-made disaster. The acute food shortage was deliberately created by the Churchill government to punish a rebellious, militant Bengal. The colonial government adopted a 'scorched-earth' policy, burned the boats that carried grain, promulgated an anti-hoarding act that prevented farmers and householders from keeping even small buffer stocks, while hoarding by private lobbies was allowed resulting in huge price rise. This policy was actively supported by the communal practices of the local Muslim League government.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2019 in the subject History - Asia, University of Kassel (FB05-Gesellschaftswissenschaften), language: English, abstract: The guiding question for the proposed thesis reads as follows: How did the inhabitants of Bengal perceive the Bengal famine and its causes? Therefore, this analysis consists of three main research questions. The main goal of this thesis is to investigate and answer the question of how Bengal's inhabitants coped with a serious constraint of food and other aspects on a daily basis as well as looking at which caste was primarily affected by the famine. Simultaneously, when seeking explanations of the daily life in Bengal and Calcutta back then, it is important to draw the attention to the credibility and opinions of the Indian public beyond the limits of what was given in experience. As the thesis already mentioned, there were not only different assertions on basic information such as the death toll, the view of the "peasantry and middle/lower class" was mentioned only rarely in the English historiographies. Finally, the thesis does not only seek to understand but also to compare the testimonies of any causes regarding this turmoil. The Bengal famine of 1943, which occurred during World War II, is known as one of the greatest crises the human civilization has ever faced. The famine, combined with several diseases, spread fast through Bengal (mostly in Calcutta) within a short time. Moreover, this tragedy was characterized by human suffering and daily deaths. Therefore, eyewitnesses described that Bengal was overcome with a grim catastrophe. Bengal was gravely affected by the famine. In compliance with this issue, the daily life of the affected people was perceived as extremely difficult. The 20th century was known to be the century of hunger. Since the British arrived in India, the country was constantly plagued by recurring famines. Famines happened whenever poverty was a topic and people had blocked access to foo

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