Fid Backhouse and others
Contributor
Fid Backhouse—along with Kieran Fogarty, Roland Matthews, Joe Toussaint, Janet Zoro, Jackum Brown, and Sal Oliver—is a contributor to 501 Most Devastating Disasters. Their work appears in Encyclopaedia Britannica as part of a joint publishing agreement with the publisher of 501 Most Devastating Disasters, where the work originally appeared.
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Bengal famine of 1943, famine that affected Bengal in British India in 1943. It resulted in the deaths of some three million people due to malnutrition or disease. While many famines are the result of inadequate food supply, the Bengal famine did not coincide with any significant shortfall in food…
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