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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.

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*Amery, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1944/jan/20/food-situation#S5CV0396P0_19440120_HOC_121 Hansard], 20 January 1944: "As the result of relief measures and an excellent winter rice crop there is now no general shortage of food in Bengal. ... There are still no reliable figures, but the Government of India, on the basis of present information, consider that the abnormal mortality due to the famine and to disease in the last five months of 1943 has not exceeded 1,000,000."
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*[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1944/feb/17/bengal-destitute-children 17 Feb 1944], alleged sale of child; also [https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1944/feb/17/food-situation-disease-incidence food situation].
*[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1944/mar/02/bengal-mortality-statistics 2 March 1944], mortality (University of Calcutta).

===Later views===
*Sen, Amaryta (1981). [https://books.google.com/books?id=FVC9eqGkMr8C&pg=PA52 "The Great Bengal Famine"]. ''Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation''.
*Bowbrick, Peter (May 1986). [http://www.bowbrick.org.uk/Publications/The%20Causes%20of%20Famine%201986.pdf "The causes of famine: A refutation of Professor Sen's theory"]. ''Food Policy''. 11:2, pp. 105–124.
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==Sections==
Needs sections on the victims (who died and why, and who didn't die; note paradoxical female data); priority classes; breakdown of the family (instead of section on women and children); sexual exploitation; and a better section on the role of the media, not at the end but within the chronology.