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Even so, work by Yang and others has proved that senior leaders in Beijing knew of the famine as early as 1958. To distribute resources evenly will only ruin the Great Leap Forward, Mao warned colleagues a year later. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.
The Bengal famine of 1943 struck the Bengal province of pre-partition British India during World War II. Between 1.5 million and 4 million people died due to starvation, malnutrition and disease. Out of Bengalâs 60.3 million population, half of them were dying from disease after food became available in December 1943.