The nationalportraitgallery has withdrawn a display by cammockhelen after it blamed the 1943 Bengal famine on “the wilful starvation of the Indian population by Winston Churchill,” and fifty peers called it false, blaming nature. But the record shows Britain destroyed 45,000 boats in coastal Bengal and delayed grain while India kept exporting rice — and in 2019 scientists found 1943 was the only major Indian famine of the period not caused by drought or a typhoon. #history #pakistan #india #art #british