These are twelve historical fiction novels that portray memory, grief, trauma, and justice, each one guiding readers into ...

At least three million people were killed in the 1943 Bengal famine, during World War Two. It's one of the largest losses of civilian life on the Allied side and there is no memorial to them ...

To the House of Commons India Secretary Leopold Stennett Amery, redundant master of officialese, declared last week: “There is no famine [in India] and no widespread prevalence of acute shortage.” ...

What caused the Irish famine? A new book offers a comprehensive ... As a young man, Trevelyan had worked in the British civil service in India and consequently, Scanlan notes, “saw Ireland ...

The years from 1895 to 1899 were memorable in India for the combined miseries of famine and plague. The region of famine was in the central and northern provinces of the country, and a population ...