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Hungry Bengal - War, Famine and the End of Empire (Paperback)
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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.
Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against
colonial rule, as well as a crucial Allied outpost in the
British/American war against Japan, Bengal stood at the crossroads
of complex and contentious structural forces - both domestic and
international - which, taken together, defined an era of political
uncertainty, social turmoil and collective violence. While for the
British the overarching priority was to save the empire from
imminent collapse at any cost, 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.
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