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The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine during World War II in the Bengal Province and Orissa Province of British India. An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, in the Bengal region, from starvat
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From the photo spread in The Statesman on 22 August 1943 showing famine conditions in Calcutta. These photographs made world headlines and spurred government action.
Rice farmers ploughing a rice field with water buffaloes near Gushkara, Bengal, 1944
Indian refugees flee Burma along the Prome Road from Rangoon to Mandalay and eventually on to India, January 1942.
American soldiers at the Calcutta Jain Temple, July 1943. Calcutta became a hub for hundreds of thousands of Allied troops.