Download This Paper'Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency’: Revisiting the Bengal Famine of 1943-44
60 Pages Posted: 25 Aug 2010
Date Written: August 24, 2010
Abstract
The paper reviews the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 in the light of some new archival data and contemporary newspaper accounts.
Keywords: famine, markets, entitlements
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