The years 1943 and 1944 saw one of the most horrendous famines in Bengal. India’s foodgrains were exported to Ceylon and to other war fronts, European stockpiles in Greece and elsewhere so that food supplies could be kept ready in cases of prolonged hostilities, as also post-war scenario. Britain conveniently turned down offers of American and Canadian food aid and even as millions were starving in India, their food was snatched away from them. Lord Leopold Amery mentioned in the House of Commons of the death of close to three million people due to starvation in the famine.24 By the time the
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