Why the 1943 Bengal famine and Churchill are in the headlines again in Britain

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It’s more than 80 years since the catastrophic Bengal famine of 1943 in which an estimated three million Indians died of starvation. But the controversy over the role of the War-time British prime minister Winston Churchill — accused of causing it by delaying emergency food supplies — refuses to go away despite often coercive attempts to shut it down.



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