{"id":24033,"date":"2020-10-21T13:30:26","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/archive-1943-the-famine-in-bengal"},"modified":"2020-10-21T13:30:26","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T04:30:26","slug":"archive-21-october-1943-the-famine-in-bengal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24033","title":{"rendered":"Archive, 21 October 1943: the famine in Bengal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>21 October 1943:<\/strong> Viceroy Lord Linlithgow is accused of a failure to anticipate the food shortage and to evolve a policy of proper distribution<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Delhi, October 20<\/strong><\/em><br \/>Calcutta\u2019s rapidly rising mortality gives some indication of Bengal\u2019s suffering, last week\u2019s death-toll being 2,154 against 1,927 in the previous week.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions outside Calcutta are considerably worse, though the figures are not available except for small centres like <a href=\"https:\/\/gopalganj.nic.in\/about-district\/\">Gopalganj<\/a>, which recorded 220 deaths from starvation and 150 more from cholera during the first half of October.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/oct\/21\/archive-1943-the-famine-in-bengal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 October 1943: Viceroy Lord Linlithgow is accused of a failure to anticipate the food shortage and to evolve a policy of proper distributionDelhi, October 20Calcutta\u2019s rapidly rising mortality gives some indication of Bengal\u2019s suffering, last week\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":471,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,62,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-famine","category-india","category-winston-churchill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/471"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24034,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24033\/revisions\/24034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}