bengal

Six million people died in a famine during which food was exported out of Bengal to aid the British war effort.

You're forgetting that $60 buys much more in Bengal than it does in SF.

Another example is the British East India company raising land taxes from 10% to 60% during the great bengal famine of the 1770s.

Or what about the British East India company raising land taxes from 10% to 50% during the great Bengal famine of the 1770s.

West Bengal and Bangladesh aren't exactly the richest places in the world.

In spite of Bengal being tropical like parts of South India.

Churchill and friends presided over the Bengal famine of the 1940s.

Out of curiosity, where in Bengal is your family from?

Much better than, say, tyrannosaurs or Bengal tigers.

> Churchill and friends presided over the Bengal famine of the 1940s.

> Out of curiosity, where in Bengal are you from?

Over and over we see regions with famines exporting food, not importing food; Sen initially showed this was the case for the Bengal Famine of 1943, but it has been seen many times.

The tehelka article also mendaciously suggests that "Myanmar" (a country which didn't exist until the 1990s) offered to help feed Bengal, but the offer was kept secret by cruel British "censors".

The article claims that "Churchill could easily have prevented the famine." This imbues Churchill with super-powers, and completely ignores the facts of the day: Bengal was a net importer of food and most of its food came from Burma, which had just been conquered by the Japanese.

Kerala, along with West Bengal, can be considered as two of the most intellectually forward states of India.

India, inexplicably, chose not to annex the Chittagong Hill Tracts (East Bengal), which were majority Hindu but awarded to East Pakistan.

It also (since 1765) held the legal right to collect taxes in Bengal.