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BENGAL FAMINE 1943-1944
CONSEQUENCES OF BENGAL FAMINE
-Recorded annual death rate rose from 1.2 million to 1.9 million, women and children were dying from diseases with malnutrition.
-By 1943 Price of rice had risen tenfold
-Between 1 and 3 million people died and whole villages were wiped out.
The thousands crowded into Calcutta begging.
OTHERS REACTION TO BENGAL FAMINE
-Wavell took immediate action coordinate rationing and try to stop profiteering, diverting troops from war effort to do so.
-Churchill originally refused to divert British merchant shipping and Roosevelt, refused to lend American ships.
-Lord Cherwell claimed that bengal famine was a statistical invention. :
-Wavell's request for a million tons of grain throughout 1944 was met with an offer of 250,000 tons and a request for Indian rice. By June 1944, Wavell had extracted 450,000. tons from reluctant government.
INDIAN REACTION TO BENGAL FAMINE
-Jinnah accused the British government of incompetence and irresponsibility.
-Congress blamed the crisis on the diversion of foodstuffs to British troops.
-Congress and Muslim league made political capital out of the crisis.
