Bengal famine of 1943

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:dam
gptkbp:cause inflation
British colonial policies
food shortage
rice crop failure
wartime policies
gptkbp:commemorates literature and films
memorials in Kolkata
gptkbp:country gptkb:British_India
gptkbp:effect malnutrition
mass starvation
disease outbreaks
population displacement
gptkbp:endDate 1944
gptkbp:historicalSignificance influenced Indian independence movement
major humanitarian disaster in colonial India
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Bengal famine of 1943
gptkbp:location gptkb:Bengal
gptkbp:mediaCoverage photographs by Sunil Janah
reporting by Ian Stephens
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Frederick_Linford
gptkb:Amartya_Sen
gptkb:Winston_Churchill
gptkbp:notablePublication gptkb:Poverty_and_Famines
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Quit_India_Movement
gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:reliefEffortsBy gptkb:treaty
limited government aid
gptkbp:startDate 1943
gptkbp:victim 2-3 million
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Partition_of_India
gptkb:Bengali_people
gptkb:Colonial_India
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5