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  1. Regarding the bengali famine. There was actually a war cabinet. Churchill wasnt making those decisions alone. Labours clem atlee became deputy pm in it. Bevin, Chamberlain, Eden, Halifax, Greenwood, Beaverbrook, Wood and Anderson who replaced chamberlain when he died also.. So to blame churchill alone is just nonsense imho. Also the official 1945 enquiry found the national indian and local bengal governments foremostly responsible along with the viceroy at the time Linithglow. With the imperial government(war cabinet) also criticised. Tbf the local indian government and national officials had used their famine relief methods on previous famines and they had been successful. This famine though was far worse than previous and needed much firmer action. Confiscation of all grain/rice and rationing needed to be introduced immediately which wasnt as they used the other economic style methods which had worked previously. By the time the newly appointed viceroy wavell intervened with help from the british army one and a half million had starved to death. Even after rationing another one and a half million died after as people were too weak to fight off disease. A terrible tragedy. The uk government/cabinet has to take some share of the blame too. Way too slow in reacting or maybe not realising how bad the situation really was? No social media/world news in those days remember. Plus you have to take into account that there "there was a war on". Bengal is where the japanese were coming through. The uk was preparing for d day. The japanese had occupied all the coastline and land to the east. Which previously supplied bengal with their grain and they were now bombing the bengal bay from where the aid had to come. Plus there was a huge storm on the western coast of india which destroyed a huge grain storage there which exasperated the problem.. The independants article is reliant on a book written by a modern day indian lady who understandably hates the british empire and wants to rubbish a major part of it. Just like a lot of modern day indian nationalists like modi, hate the uk and its past imperialism too. The independant is also anti conservative and is also more than happy to rubbish a conservative icon whenever it can.
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