Hungry Bengal: war, famine, riots and the end of empire

By:

Mukherjee, Janam

Publication details: Gurugram: Harper Collins Publishers India, 2015Description: xii, 329p.: pbk.: 21cmISBN:

9789351775829

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DDC classification:

954.14 MUK

Summary: The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. While for the British the priority was to save the empire from imminent collapse, for the majority of the Indian population the 1940s were years of acute scarcity, violent dislocation and enduring calamity. In particular, there are three major crises that shaped the social, economic and political context of pre-partition Bengal: the Second World War, the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Hungry Bengal examines these intricately interconnected events, foregrounding the political economy of war and famine in order to analyse the complex nexus of hunger, war, and civil violence in colonial Bengal at the twilight of British rule. https://www.amazon.in/Hungry-Bengal-War-Famine-Empire/dp/9351775828

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The years leading up to the independence and accompanying partition of India mark a tumultuous period in the history of Bengal. While for the British the priority was to save the empire from imminent collapse, for the majority of the Indian population the 1940s were years of acute scarcity, violent dislocation and enduring calamity. In particular, there are three major crises that shaped the social, economic and political context of pre-partition Bengal: the Second World War, the Bengal famine of 1943 and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Hungry Bengal examines these intricately interconnected events, foregrounding the political economy of war and famine in order to analyse the complex nexus of hunger, war, and civil violence in colonial Bengal at the twilight of British rule.

https://www.amazon.in/Hungry-Bengal-War-Famine-Empire/dp/9351775828

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