Hungry Bengal :

Mukherjee, Janam,

Hungry Bengal : War, Famine and the End of Empire / Janam Mukherjee. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2015 - xii, 329 pages : maps ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index.

Introduction : in search of famine -- War -- Denial -- Priorities -- Famine -- Japan attacks -- Second famine -- Riots -- Conclusion.

Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.

9781849044318 9780190209889 (acidfree paper) 0190209887 (acidfree paper)

2015509890

DS485.B49 / M864 2015

954.1404