Bengal Famine

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:

    “Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the most effulgent but basket the deadliest thunders: gorgeous Cuba knows tornadoes that never swept tame northern lands.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    “They can rule the world while they can persuade us
    our pain belongs in some order.
    Is death by famine worse than death by suicide,
    than a life of famine and suicide ... ?”
    —Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)