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I'm not really sure where this thread should be placed. So, if you think this doesn't belong here, move it where it should be. Thanks.
I couldn't understand the bold part. Could you please help me with it? And I think Bengal was also devastated by famine during the administration of Clive of India.
From Wikipedia article on the famine:
Wikipedia: Bengal famine of 1943 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm not really sure where this thread should be placed. So, if you think this doesn't belong here, move it where it should be. Thanks.
I couldn't understand the bold part. Could you please help me with it? And I think Bengal was also devastated by famine during the administration of Clive of India.
From Wikipedia article on the famine:
The Bengal famine of 1943 is one among several famines that occurred in British-administered Bengal. It is estimated that around 3 million Indians died from starvation and malnutrition during the period making the number of Indian deaths higher than the two world wars, the entire independence movement and the massive carnage that followed Partition of India.
Amartya Sen holds the view that there was no overall shortage of rice in Bengal in 1943: availability was actually slightly higher than in 1941, when there was no famine. It was partly this which conditioned the sluggish official response to the disaster, as there had been no serious crop failures and hence the famine was unexpected. Its root causes, Sen argues, lay in rumours of shortage which caused hoarding, and rapid price inflation caused by war-time demands which made rice stocks an excellent investment (prices had already doubled over the previous year). In Sen's interpretation, while landowning peasants who actually grew rice and those employed in defence-related industries in urban areas and at the docks saw their wages rise, this led to a disastrous shift in the exchange entitlements of groups such as landless labourers, fishermen, barbers, paddy huskers and other groups who found the real value of their wages had been slashed by two-thirds since 1940. Quite simply, although Bengal had enough rice and other grains to feed itself, millions of people were suddenly too poor to buy it.
Wikipedia: Bengal famine of 1943 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia