The British oversaw - and contributed through inaction to - dozens of famines during two centuries of colonial rule, culminating in the 1943 famine (also in Bengal) that cost two millions Indian their lives.

— Audrey Truschke India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent (2025)

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