Famine of ‘43
Food supplies to Bengal were reduced in the years preceding 1943 by natural disasters, outbreaks of infections in crops and the fall of Burma - now Myanmar - which was a major source of rice imports, into Japanese hands.
Food supplies to Bengal were reduced in the years preceding 1943 by natural disasters, outbreaks of infections in crops and the fall of Burma - now Myanmar - which was a major source of rice imports, into Japanese hands.
