The Blood Sea
Gias Uddin Ahmed
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The Blood Sea

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Nobel Prize winning Indian (Bengali) economist Amartya Sen describes it as a man-made famine, noting that no previous famine had occurred in Bengal that century, and the region under the Muslim rule was one of the world's major economic powers and signalled the advent of proto-industrialisation. Historian William Dalrymple held that the deindustrialisation of Bengal and the policies of the East India Company were the reasons for the mass famine and widespread chaos. From 1876 to 1878, the Great Famine killed between 30 and 60 million people around the world. Drought enveloped much of the plane...