102: The Bengal Famine

From 1943 to 1944, as a result of decades of exploitative colonial policy, and intentional neglect from the British government, a terrible famine gripped the colonial Indian province of Bengal. Estimates bring the death toll in Bengal alone to three million people. This episode covers the history of colonial rule in India, and the intentional engineering of the genocidal Bengal Famine, the brutality of which has been compared to the Holocaust.

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Sources and Further Reading

The Great Bengal Famine: Link

Honourable Company: A History of the English East India Company: Link

The East India Company 1784 - 1834: Link

The Illustrated History of the British Empire in India and the East: Link

Colonial Frontiers of the Georgian State: East India Company's Rule in India: Link

The Lion and the Tiger: The Rise and Fall of the British Raj, 1600-1947: Link

The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case: Link

Government by Committee: An Essay on the British Constitution: Link

Hungry Bengal: War, Famine and the End of Empire: Link

Imperial Airs: Leo Amery, Air Power and Empire, 1873–1945: Link