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Viceroy Wavell visits famine-stricken Bengal

📅 26 October 1943

New Viceroy Archibald Wavell visited Calcutta as famine devastated Bengal. War priorities, colonial procurement and shipping policies, inflation, crop disruption, and unequal access to food...