The Bengal Famine of 1943: Natural Disaster or Man-Made Catastrophe?

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Source/Further reading:

The Forgotten Holocaust:
Accounts from the Bengal famine of 1943 https://www.scribd.com/article/460852711

General Overview:
https://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...

The Famine of 1770:
https://www.academia.edu/6977392/A_Fo...

The Famine of 1873:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

The Famine Inquiry Commission (FIC) report:
https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/a...

Amartya Sen:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=e...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4364836
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dludden/Fa...

Tauger, Oswami and Padmanabhan:
https://www.academia.edu/25974488/Ent...

The ‘brown spot’ fungus:
https://www.plantwise.org/knowledgeba...

Prom M. Mufakharul Islam:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4132358

Madhusree Mukerjee:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24479300

Churchill exonerated?
https://winstonchurchill.hillsdale.ed...
https://winstonchurchill.org/resource...

Geophysical Research Letters: Drought and Famine in India (the 2019 Paper)
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Media reports in 2019 about Churchill’s responsibilities:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/0...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...
https://www.historyextra.com/period/f...