Hungry Bengal : War, Famine and the End of Empire
by Janam Mukherjee
Published by : HarperCollins Publishers India (India) Physical details: xiii,329 Pages 14x21 cm | PB ISBN:9789351775829. Year: 2015| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 954.1404 J331H 2015 (Browse shelf) | Available | 35713 |
War, Famine and the End of Empire.
Include Maps, Notes, Bibliography and Index.
Representing both a major front in the Indian struggle against colonial rule, as well as a crucial front in the British/American conflict with Japan during World War II, Bengal stood at the crossroads of complex forces that describe an era of political uncertainty, social turmoil, and collective violence. The period (1939-1946) can be defined, above all, by three interrelated events: World War II, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Calcutta riots of 1946. Mobilization for war began in 1939, but Britain's sense of urgency was difficult to impress upon a skeptical Indian population already chaffing under the injustices of colonial rule and grave economic hardship. This book examines this topic.
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