Bengal famine of 1943 Part - 2
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 Indian Army convoys of grain head out across Howrah Bridge Calcutta to villages where it will be distributed under government controlled prices  A Hindu family sitting along the roadside, suffering from the famine  ARP truck drivers picking up a child's corpse  people watching while Army convoy unloads government controlled food  A starving child stuffing himself with creamy food  A man suffering from famine, causing his bones to seep through his skin  An overheated boy washing his face off with water from a fire hydrant  A living skeleton suffering from hunger during the famine  ARP sweepers loading a young Hindu girl's corpse onto the truck  A woman sweeping up each grain she dropped, carefully off the road  A starving man sitting on the dirt covered ground  An old 64 year old peasant and his granddaughter looking out over the lush growing rice fields  A little boy being picked up by the Co.-Ordinator of Relief Officials to be fed at the government kitchen  An older Hindu man suffering from the famine  ARP truck sweepers disposing corpses and carrying them to one of Calcutta's burning ghats.  An old starving woman lying on the roadside, dying  Starving people waiting for the government controlled Grain Shop to open  Dead bodies being taken to one of Calcutta's burning ghats  Bodies of unidentified destitutes lying under mats, waiting to be burned | ||
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