EVENT INFORMATION

26
Òktober
1943

Viceroy Wavell visits famine-stricken Bengal

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📅 26 Òktober 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 intensified mass hunger. Relief came late and unevenly; the experience of rural laborers, women, and the urban poor shows how colonial wartime governance shaped vulnerability and survival.

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Archibald Wavell

Bengali famine survivors

Bengal relief workers

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British Raj

Government of Bengal

Indian Army