#bengalfamine — Public Fediverse posts
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Indian soldiers serving abroad during the Second World War were horrified to learn about food scarcity back home. Military censorship could not hide the severity of the #Bengalfamine.
🔒 Diya Gupta’s new article is now in the archive
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The September issue of History Today is on sale today
Featuring: #Mao’s #China, a #medieval forgery, #Victorian reading, the #BengalFamine, #CivilWar petitions, and more.
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The September issue of History Today is on sale from today
Featuring: #Mao’s China, a #medieval forgery, #Victorians reading, the #BengalFamine, #CivilWar petitions, and more.
Find out what else is inside and order it directly from our store at https://buff.ly/zt0xDpR
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"The 40-minute video by artist Helen Cammock at the central London gallery had referred to "the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill" in the 1943 famine.
It prompted an open letter to the gallery from Lord Roberts of Belgravia, a Churchill biographer - signed by more than 50 peers including Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames - saying this was incorrect."
Colonialist tears...
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The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 was engineered by British colonial greed. The East India Company drained Bengal’s wealth, hoarded grain for their army, and raised taxes during a drought, while 10 million Bengalis starved to death. They turned a failed monsoon into a genocide. They destroyed Bengal's economy by prioritizing profit over people, and leaving a land of plenty in ruins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bengal_famine_of_1770
#Colonialism #BengalFamine #HistoryMatters #Bangladesh #Dhaka #Uk #India #Genocide
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Were you all aware of this podcast series on the history and memory of the 1943 Bengal Famine? It's superb. #history #podcasts #bbc #india #bengal #bengalfamine #wwii #ww2 #famine https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001wr57
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@EdibleFuchsia @jonben Yes, I listened to that too. On the one hand, great that it was on at all, and it was interesting, on the other: i wish they had gone further with it. The choice to focus on lived experience rather than causes (!); the “balanced” discussion of Churchill (getting on only Hastings for that!); and, as ever, a lot of White Saviourism. And yes, as you say, only that one instance, not the wider picture. #Famines #BengalFamine #Colonialism
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The Blame – and the Shame – of Three Million Bengali Dead
The BBC audio series 'Three Million' presents the famine as living history rather than a distant episode.
#BengalFamine #WestBengal #BritishRule #WinstonChurchill #WorldWar2 #WWII #genocide #history #histodon #BBC #KavitaPuri #india
https://thewire.in/history/the-blame-and-the-shame-of-three-million-bengali-dead
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#Bales2023FilmChallenge May 28: Hungry on #WorldHungerDay
In Mrinal Sen's আকালের সন্ধানে [Akaler Sandhane / In Search of Famine] (1982), a Calcutta film crew arrives in a small Bengal town to make a film about the 1943 #BengalFamine. Initially, their arrival sparks joy and wonder but while filming, the participants – travelling back and forth between 43 and 80, Calcutta and rural Bengal, and reality and re-enactment – face the one constant, #famine.