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Posted: 09 Jan 2023

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Bengal Famine •
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CHURCHILL'S SECRET WAR •
Madhushree Mukarjee - Author •

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 Dinesh
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One can gauge the applicability of death rate to the early 1940s by reviewing how mortality in Bengal might have evolved during the 1930s. The rate of land sales offers strong evidence that economic distress increased all through that decade. (This kind of data is reliable because land sales, unlike death, had to be registered in order to take effect.) The number of land sales in Bengal in 1929 had been 79,929, but the frequency of such transactions increased so that in 1938 the figure was three times as high. The next year -- when the war began -- the sales doubled, and they continued to rise until in 1942 the number was 749,495. In 1943, the famine year, the figure doubled again to 1,532,241s. since an owner parted with land only as a last resort -- to save his life and that of his family -- these figures indicate that the suffering in Bengal, and in all likelihood the mortality rate, increased throughout the depression and war years and reached a peak with the famine. ~ Page 270

. . . Economist Amartya Sen observes that famine has never occurred in a functioning democracy -- a form of government that inverts the traditional power structure by making rulers accountable to those whom they rule. ~ Page 274

CHURCHILL'S SECRET WAR
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 Rosalyn Hilborne
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A sad time.
20 months ago.

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