British Colonial India Hunger Crisis in the Streets: Press Photographs of Famine Victims, Relief Work, and Food Riots, Large Press Photographs, 1943-1964
Indian famine crisis press archive depicting hunger, relief work, and public unrest from Bengal famine conditions through later food riots in independent India. The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated three million people, and food scarcity remained politically volatile in India for decades afterward. Street demonstrations over grain, rationing.....