FAMINES OF BENGAL 1770,1943

Two Great Disasters –

During British Rule
The Famine of 1770
General Causes of Famine
 FAMINE OF 1770
• Revenue policy of the East India Company
• Failure of Monsoon
• Failure of Crops
• People felt the pinch of the calamity
• Starving Population
• People moved to towns and cities
• Calamitous scenes of Murshidabad
• Living people devouring the dead
 Policy of the East India Company
• Did not have any policy
• Hoarding of Grain
• Government did not take any relief measures
• One third of the people perished
• Post –Famine policy of the Company
• Long lasting impact of Famine
 FAMINE OF 1943
• World War Two
• Advance of Japan
• British Defeat
• Japanese advancing toward Bengal
• Destruction of Boats -60000
• People had to vacate cultivable land of air
ports and aerodrum
 Effect of the Policy
• Saving Kolkata
• Forced buying of grain
• People left no money to purchase food grains
• People in Kolkata
• People of East Bengal
• 3.5 million people died
 Devastating results of Famine
• Great shocks for the people of East Bengal