There have been a number of significant famines in the history of Bengal (now independent Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal) including:
- Bengal famine of 1770
- Bengal famine of 1943
- Bangladesh famine of 1974
- Bengal Famine (film), a movie by Bimal Roy
Famous quotes containing the words bengal and/or famine:
“In Bengal to move at all
Is seldom, if ever, done,
But mad dogs and Englishmen
Go out in the midday sun.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)
“I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
I knew the rich,
sated with merriment,
who yet are sad.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)