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)
“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)