Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee

However an even deadlier threat, not just to Bengal (West Bengal and Bangladesh), but to all Developing countries comes from post-colonial, US-led, First Word hegemony and callous disregard of the entitlement of all people on Spaceship Earth to a minimally decent life. My thesis was that history ignored yields history repeated and that ignoring of immense man-made famine disasters in Bengal, notably the 1769-1779 Bengal Famine (10 million dead) and the 1942-1945 Bengal Famine (4 million dead in Bengal, 6-7 million Indians dead in Bengal and contiguous provinces) increases the risk of repetition and, specifically, in the 21st century from man-made global warming, sea level rise, increased tropical cyclone intensity and land inundation and salinization through consequent storm surges. Polya, Melbourne, 1998, 2008: ) put the WW2 Bengali Holocaust into a wider context of British racism, imperialism, holocaust commission, holocaust denial and cultural self-deception. Colonial rapacity, holocaust denial and the crisis in biological sustainability” (G.M. My book “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History. Paul Greenough's “Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: the Famine of 1943-1944” (Oxford University Press, 1982) is a detailed and definitive account of the WW2 Bengal Famine.īrilliant Bengali film maker Satyajit Ray's film 'Distant Thunder' is a profoundly moving account of part of this disaster and concludes with an estimate that 5 million Bengalis perished. Jog's “Churchill's Blind Spot: India ” (New Book Company, Bombay, 1944) in referring to this Bengali Holocaust was the first to refer to a WW2 atrocity as a “holocaust”. Other books have been written about the Bengal Famine Thus N.G.

The British Empire and the ravaging of India during World War II” by Madhusree Mukerjee (Basic Books, New York, 2010) is an account of the forgotten World War 2 Bengali Holocaust, the man-made, 1942-1945 Bengal Famine in which 6-7 million Indians were deliberately starved to death by the British under Churchill for strategic reasons in what was one of the greatest atrocities in human history but which has been largely white washed from British history. The important book “Churchill's Secret War. WW2 Bengali Holocaust: “Churchill's Secret War” By Madhusree Mukerjee

Churchill's Secret War by Madhusree Mukerjee