Eighty Years On, Has Government Behaviour Changed from the British to Modi?
Drawing parallels between what happened in the 1940s––the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, the Second World War that ended in 1945 and the Partition of India in 1947––historian and professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Pradip Kumar Datta notes striking similarities in the response of the government to hunger, deprivation and mass migration, in an interview with Newsclick.
Drawing parallels between what happened in the 1940s––the Great Bengal Famine of 1943, the Second World War that ended in 1945 and the Partition of India in 1947––historian and professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University Pradip Kumar Datta notes striking similarities in the response of the government to hunger, deprivation and mass migration, in an interview with Newsclick.
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