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Useful for wartime Bengal, colonial responsibility, and peasant agency.
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1946-1947
The Tebhaga Movement (1946-1947) was a major sharecropper mobilization in Bengal in which bargadars demanded that two-thirds of harvested produce should remain with cultivators instead of the customary half-share claimed by jotedars. Organized through peasant networks with strong left participation, the movement spread across multiple districts and became one of late-colonial Bengal's most significant agrarian confrontations.
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The Bengal Famine of 1943 caused catastrophic hunger and death across Bengal. Wartime disruption, rice-market inflation, transport strain, relief failure, and policy breakdown under British colonial administration intensified the crisis, devastating rural households, laboring families, and urban poor communities alike.
