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BBC: How Churchill 'starved' India

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Some three million Indians died in the famine of 1943. The majority of the deaths were in Bengal. In a shocking new book, Churchill's Secret War, journalist Madhusree Mukherjee blames Mr Churchill's policies for being largely responsible for one of the worst famines in India's history. It is a gripping and scholarly investigation into what must count as one of the most shameful chapters in the history of the Empire.

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I have read these Lame Arguments by David Glenn Cox on Friday, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:03:39 PM
Well Said by Laura Roberts on Friday, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:08:52 PM