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Tarakchandra Das's survey-based study of the destitutes in Calcutta during the 1943 Bengal famine.
1943
The Bengal Famine of 1943 caused catastrophic hunger and death across Bengal. Wartime disruption, inflation, grain-market failures, and policy breakdown under British colonial administration intensified the crisis, devastating rural households and urban poor communities alike.