We survived a brutal famine in British India

At least three million people died in the Bengal famine of 1943 during World War II. This is one of the greatest losses of Allied civilian life and there is no memorial to them anywhere in the world. In the video above, BBC’s Kavita Puri travels to rural Bengal to speak to three elderly Indians who were living through this dark chapter. About Britain’s colonial past. For them, famine is not history. Listen: Three Million, Kavita Puri’s podcast on the Bengal Famine
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