Madhusree Mukerjee on the 1943 Bengal Famine

2023 is the 80th commemorative and memorial year of the 1943 Bengal Famine. To share the views and understanding of the past, the integral part of the interview of Madhusree Mukerjee, author of " Churchill's secret war" . This interview was recorded in Frankfurt in 2016 to narrate the historical chronology of the Bengal Famine during WW II for the documentary film 'Bengal Shadows' directed by Joy Banerjee & Partho Bhattacharya.

[@alopal3191]

Excellent documentation

[@lesana1191]

It is tragedy how colonisators treated local people of their colonies...

[@Vigilantae]

How long will it take that youtube is going to remove this one ? 💎

[@somjit522]

This interview is a gem.

[@jacobfield4848]

1. She is trying to cover up for Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.
2. Japan were the main cause of the food shortage in Bengal. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was in charge of distributing the food. He instead sold the food at 4 to 9 times the normal price. This made rice too expensive for the poor in Bengal to buy and thus tragically they died. He could and should have given the food away for free to the poor, he refused to do this.
3. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy repeatedly reported that there was "no food shortage". All the money given to buy food from the rest of India was stolen by Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy and he gave it to his friends and family members.
3. All historians and journalists who lived through the Bengal famine from all across India at the time on the famine, 1943, accused Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy of profiting from the inflation of food caused by Japanese invasion of Bhurma and being the main reason so many people died.
...Conclusion = Japan and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy were the main cause of the horrific famine of 1943.

[@abhinandanbanerjee5471]

The parliamentary debates clearly show that the Suhrawardy government had no control over prices in the districts. Your argument has no merit.

[@jacobfield4848]

@@abhinandanbanerjee5471 Suhrawardy was in full control over the distribution of food and hoarded it and sold it at a profit. And you already know this.

[@abhinandanbanerjee5471]

@@jacobfield4848 no he was not. The government had no control over hoarding in the districts caused by predominantly HINDU moneylenders and you already know this.

[@jacobfield4848]

@@abhinandanbanerjee5471 Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy was the "Minister for Civil Supply" during the Bengal famine of 1943. He had complete control over food supply and who got access to it, he was also given vast sums of money to store and distribute the food. Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy said on several occasion's there was "No shortage of food" when people were clearly starving.

[@abhinandanbanerjee5471]

@@jacobfield4848 that is a juvenile argument to suggest a minister automatically has complete government control. With a silly understanding like that, your errenous conclusions are inevitable.