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Life and fate in Kolkata

Summary by New Statesman
Early on in Megha Majumdar’s new novel, we’re reminded of the long history of famines in the Indian subcontinent. There was the ghastly Bengal famine of 1943 when three million perished because of a British policy of diverting produce from the region for wartime supplies, though Churchill blamed the Indians for bringing it on themselves by “breeding like rabbits”. Then the drought of 1876, when crop failure in southern India was worsened by the …

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Life and fate in Kolkata

Early on in Megha Majumdar’s new novel, we’re reminded of the long history of famines in the Indian subcontinent. There was the ghastly Bengal famine of 1943 when three million perished because of a British policy of diverting produce from the region for wartime supplies, though Churchill blamed the Indians for bringing it on themselves by “breeding like rabbits”. Then the drought of 1876, when crop failure in southern India was worsened by the …

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