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Cornwallis’s reforms (1793)
Cripps, Sir Stafford
Cromwell, Oliver
Crout, John
Cunningham, George
Curzon, Viceroy
Cyclone (1942)
British and
description/effects
relief
D-Day
Daily Mail
Daily Telegraph
Dakua, Khudiram
Dakua, Kumudini
Dhara and
insurgencies
Darwin, Charles
Malthus and
social Darwinism
Das, Bhim
Das, Hori
Das, Pawnchanon/family
Das, Srihorichandro
Das, Sudam Chandra
Dasi, Sabitri
De Valera, Eamon
Defence of India Act
Denial Policy
about
boat denial
rice denial
Devi, Mahasweta
Devi, Saroda
Dhara, Sushil Kumar
arrest/escape (1943)
arrest/sentence (1944)
arrests/imprisonment
assassinations by
Axis powers and
background
cyclone and
death rumors
Gandhian values and
Gandhi’s surrender instructions and
hopes of
insurgencies
life after independence
Tamluk National Government
Dhillon, Gurbux Singh
Digby, William
Direct Action Day
Dominion status description
India and
Durga (madam)
Dutt, Romesh Chunder
Dyson, Tim
Einstein, Albert
Elizabeth, Queen
Extraction rate (flour)
Famine commission
aid offers
cover-up by
death estimates
explanations to
lack of food riots
ship use
stockpiles
wheat use
Famines
British colonies outside India (1943)
democracies and
Ireland
war crimes and
See also
Starvation
Famines in India
1770
1870s
1897
importing cereals (1930s)
nineteenth-century deaths
Victorian era vs. Mughal period
Famines in India (1940s)
1944 wheat crop problems
aid denial
aid denial “defense,”
aid offers
animals preying on people/bodies
army needs and
Balkans priority and
blaming India
Britain’s exaggerations on needs
clothing and
cyclone/floods (1942)
death estimates
death estimating
denial of problem by Britain
description/people starving
exporting grain and
food for Britain
food-for-work program
food riots and
Geneva Convention/war crimes and
governor’s residence and
grain statistics
history and
hoarding/suspected hoarding
importing grain and
Italian civilians priority
Japanese Southeast Asia occupation
mercy killings/child abandonment
Middle East/Ceylon priorities
as military problem
price controls and
prostitution and
punishing India and
rice denial policy
scorched earth policy
shipping glut of Britain and
soldiers feeding civilians
sterling debt/resources and
stories from villages
survivors weakness
War Cabinet meeting (Nov., 1943)
warnings
wartime shipping and
wheat policies and
See also
Bengal famine (1940s)
Fay, Peter Ward
Fischer, Louis
G Sahib
Gandhi, Abha
Gandhi, Indira
Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand
arrests/fasts
British strategy on
Churchill on
Do or Die instructions
economics and
education and
famine
Harijan
newsletter
Hindu-Muslim killings and
Hitler on
Indian National Army and
Jinnah and
killing of
nonviolence movement and
partitioning and
prison release/health problems
surrender instructions
Tamluk National Government violence and
wife’s death
World War II and
See also
Indian National Congress; Quit India movement
Gang rapes, Midnapore
about
political outcomes
recanting nonviolence and
Geneva Convention (1949)
Germany/Nazis
John Amery and
offer on Jews
Poland and
See also
Hitler, Adolf
Ghora, Basudeb
Gowing, M. M.
Great Depression
Greece
Balkans priority (World War II)
famine
Spartans
World War II and
Greenough, Paul
Gregory, Theodore/Committee report
Grigg, Sir Percy James
aid denial/“defense,”
Churchill and
on Hindus
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
Gross, Charles
“Grow More Food” program, Britain
Gupta, Ashoka
Halifax, viscount of (Lord Irwin)
Hammond, R. J.
Hancock, W. K.
Harijan
newsletter
Harper, Tim
Harriman, Averell
Harrod, Roy
Hauner, Milan
Hazra, Matongini
Herbert, Sir John
Bengal and
famine and
famine warnings
rice denial policy
Hindu-Muslim disunity
British prejudices and
Churchill and
Indian Army and
Jinnah and
police encouraging
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
See also
Partitioning India
Hindu-Muslim killings
British views on
Churchill and
criminals and
description
Direct Action Day
Europeans and
fears of
Gandhi and
Muslim League and
See also
Partitioning India
Hindus
British prejudices on
See also specific individuals
Hindustan Standard
Hinge of Fate, The
(Churchill)
Hitler, Adolf
British/World War II and
Britons/British Empire views
Churchill on
on Gandhi/Indians
on Japan
racism of
Soviet Union/Russia and
suicide
World War II goals
Home Charge
Hopkins, Harry
Hull, Cordell
Hunger strikes
Hungry Bengal
Hunt, Colonel
Hunter, William
Huq, Abul Kasem Fazlul
Hutchings, Robert
Huxley, Aldous
India
1933 nutrition survey
1945 United Nations conference
birth-rate criticism
British capitalism and
during World War II
independence date
postwar importance to Britain
racism towards
railways/effects
scorched earth policy and
See also
Famines in India; Partitioning India;
specific individuals
;
specific organizations
India Committee
India League of America
India/World War II
Americans and
Axis powers and
budget
explosion, Bombay dock
independence/division and
role
scorched earth policy
sterling debt of Britain
as unprotected
See also specific individuals
; United Kingdom/India; United Kingdom/World War II
Indian Army/World War II
description
fighting Japan
Indian National Army and
inequalities
placements
role questions
Indian Independence League
Indian independence movement
British retaliation (1940s)
British retaliation against women
independence date
pensions for freedom fighters
women joining
women’s conch shells and
See also
Indian National Army (INA);
Quit India movement;
specific
events
;
specific individuals
;
specific organizations
; Tamluk
National Government/
insurgencies
Indian National Army (INA)
Bose and
Britain’s views of
British spy in
in Burma
formation
Gandhi and
hopes for
Indian Army and
treason trial/effects
women’s regiment
Indian National Congress
1935 act/elections
1946 elections
arrests/releases
Cripps offer
Johnson offer
See also
Quit India movement;
specific individuals
International Red Cross
Ireland famine
Irwin, Lord (viscount of Halifax)
Ispahani, Mirza Ahmad/company
Israel
Iwaichi, Fujiwara
Jana, Gokul
Jana, Kumar Chandra
Japan/World War II
British and
Burma and
China and
Hiroshima bombing/surrender
India and
Indian Army and
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Singapore and
Jinnah, Mohammad Ali
Gandhi and
Muslim-Hindu killings
Muslims/Muslim League
National Congress and
partitioning India/Pakistan
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
Johnson, Louis
Kalikakundu village
Khan, Kalo
Khan, Khan Abdul Ghaffar
Khan, Niaz Mohammad
Khan, Shah Nawaz
Kiani, Inayat
King, Mackenzie
Kuila, Nirmala/family
Kumaruddin, Sheikh
Lawrence of Arabia
Leathers, Frederick
Churchill relationship
Indian famine/aid denial
Lend Lease program, U.S.
Life expectancy
Britain
India
Lindemann, Frederick Alexander (Prof/Lord Cherwell)
aid denial/“defense,”
background
blaming India
Churchill relationship
death
food reserves (Britain)
India/Bengal famine and
Indian freedom and
prejudices/personality
public opinion and
sterling debt
World War II
Linlithgow, Lady
Linlithgow, Lord
Amery and
Bengal grain exports/imports
Churchill and
dominion status and
famine warnings/aid requests
Gandhi and
Indian freedom and
leaving India
Rutherford’s reports to
sterling debt
Viceroy term end
Lives of a Bengal Lancer
(movie)
Llewellin, John J.
Louis, William Roger
Macaulay, Thomas B.
MacDougall, Donald
Mahalanobis, Prasanta C.
Mahapatro, Krishna Chaitanya (Kanu)
Maharatna, Arup
Maity, Bholanath
Maity, Bonkim
Maity, Kanonbala
Maity, Saday/family
Maity, Sindhubala
Maity, Umesh
Majha, Gourhori
Malakar, Giribala/family
Malaria
Malthus, Reverend Thomas Robert
Manu
Martin, Olaf M.
Bengal famine and
registration figures
Mein Kampf
(Hitler)
Midnapore
District/Tamluk subdivision
gang rapes and
See also
Tamluk National Government/insurgencies
Mitra, Asok
Molotov, Vyacheslav
Mookerjee, Shyama Prasad
Moon, Penderel
Moore, Arthur
Moran, Lord
Churchill and
on Leathers
on Lindemann
Morton, Desmond
Mother India
(Mayo)
Mountbatten, Lord Louis
Mudaliar, Sir Ramaswami
Mukhopadhyay, Ajoy Kumar
Mukhopadhyay, Gita/aunt
Mundt, Karl
Muslim League
1937 elections
1943 elections
1946 elections
Bengal ministry
famine and
Jinnah and
partitioning India/Pakistan
World War II and
See also specific individuals
Muslims
British views on
Viceroy’s Council/Simla talks
See also
Hindu-Muslim disunity; Hindu-Muslim killings;
specific individuals

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