It also coincides with the end of WWII and thus the end of the Japanese naval threat, which was a factor in the last Bengal famine. These correlations are hard

It also coincides with the end of WWII and thus the end of the Japanese naval threat, which was a factor in the last Bengal famine. These correlations are hard to parse apart. There wasn't any famine in the USSR in the early 1950s either, but that does not mean that Stalin, compared to the 1930s, suddenly became a humanist leader interested in prosperity of all subjugated people.