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Here's an interesting article which gives some response to the accusations made of Churchill's actions during the Bengal famine. It's short and well worth readi

Here's an interesting article which gives some response to the accusations made of Churchill's actions during the Bengal famine. It's short and well worth reading, although it clearly is papering over Churchill's racism. https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/churchill-in-the-news/indias-famine-would-have-been-worse/ https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/in-the-media/churchil...

SJetKaran 8y ago
https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/267rzg/what_exactly_caused_the_bengal_famine_of_1943_and/ https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/267rzg/what_e... > Churchill certainly did not engineer the famine in Bengal, but he was ultimately responsible for the lack of a relief effort for it. https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6zi5fx/was_churchill_and_the_united_kingdom_more/ https://xi.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6zi5fx/was_ch... > It is hard to say where British incompetence, obsession with the war effort, and active cruelty begin and end. My read of the evidence is that official rice production statistics were wrong, and the British let millions of people in Bengal die because the war was more important, but there's a lot of debate about what actually happened. https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/83oijk/was_churchill_really_a_racist_war_criminal_as/ https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/83oijk/was_c...