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==Who died?==
{{further|Bengal famine of 1943}}
Article needs a demography section: population, Muslim/Hindu, how many urban/living in villages, family structure (Greenough), who died, male/female, etc. Explain who "priority classes" were; stores on factory premises; workers paid with grain from July 1942 (Greenough). 80,000–150,000 villagers moved to Calcutta after July.

(contracted; show full)*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/feb/17/bengal-destitute-children#S5CV0397P0_19440217_HOC_157 Hansard], 17 February 1944.

==Priority classes==
"Concern for Calcutta's 'priority classes' accounted for the forcible requisition of rice from mills and warehouses in and around the city in late December 1942" (Ó Gráda 2010).

==Responsibility==
===Discussion at the time===

*Fitz-Clarence, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1943/jan/27/food-situation-in-india Hansard], 27 January 1943: "My Lords, the food situation in India, difficult as it is, is not a famine situation. There is a shortage which affects only the urban areas and a few rural areas. At first the difficulties which arose were mainly those of transportation and these were aggravated by the disturbances which occurred in the latter part of last summer. Previous to this, however, there was the loss of the Burma rice crop and later supplies of food grains were affected by a flood in Sind, by cyclones in Orissa, and by a serious failure of the millet crop in certain parts of the country, due to lack of rain in the autumn. Accompanying these causes of deficiency was the increased demand for feeding the Army."
*Amery, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1943/jan/28/food-situation-relief-measures Hansard], 28 January 1943: "There is no famine and no widespread prevalence of acute shortage ..."
*Amery, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1943/feb/11/food-supplies Hansard], 11 February 1943: "I would remind the hon. Member that I have already explained that conditions in India are not famine conditions. The immediate request of the Government of India is for wheat ..."
:([http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/written_answers/1943/feb/23/india-vital-statistics Hansard], 23 February 1943: life expectancy.)⏎
*Amery, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1943/jun/03/food-situation Hansard], 3 June 1943: "The latest reports from India are that the wheat just reaped is a bumper crop, and the other spring crops are good. The crop is moving slowly to the market and prices are still high. The rice situation still causes anxiety and must continue to do so so long as the Burma crop is lost to us. The chief concern at present is for Bengal and especially Calcutta, where the price of rice is shown as more than(contracted; show full)mines generally away from food availability decline (FAD) per se to the distribution of, or entitlements to, what food was available. In Bengal, Sen argued, the problem was less the supply of food in 1943 than its distribution; in theory there was enough to feed everybody, but massive speculation, prompted in large part by wartime conditions, meant that a minor shortfall in food availability was transformed into a disastrous reduction in market supplies. Sen's analysis has been enormously influential.