Between 1769 and 1770 a famine hit the Bengal region ... This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule throughout the 1700s and 1800s. From 1757, the East India Company ...
Between 1770 and 1943, India saw numerous famines, exacerbated by British policies, resulting in millions of deaths. The Bengal famine of 1943, for instance, killed an estimated 3 million people ...