Engineered Starvation: The Imperial Atrocity of the Bengal Famine

While the world focused on the battlefields of the Second World War, a quiet, catastrophic atrocity was unfolding in British India. In 1943, nearly three million people in the Bengal province starved to death. This was not the result of a severe drought or an unavoidable crop failure; it was a devastatingly efficient, man-made logistical disaster. Terrified of a Japanese invasion of India, the B...