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Did Churchill Cause the Bengal Famine? (hillsdale.edu)
8 points by curtis on Aug 8, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


TLDR: No

The truth—documented by Sir Martin Gilbert and Hillsdale College—is that Churchill did everything he could in the midst of world war to save the Bengalis; and that without him the famine would have been worse.4

4 Martin Gilbert, ed., Winston S. Churchill: The Churchill Documents (Hillsdale, Michigan: Hillsdale College Press, 2006 and ongoing).




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