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Chapter 4 Food Security in India
NCERT Book Extra Questions for Session 2022-2023
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What is a famine? Who were most affected people by the famine of 1948 in Bengal?
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(a) A famine is characterised by widespread deaths due to starvation and epidemics
caused by forced use of contaminated water or decaying food and loss of body resistance due to weakening from starvation.
(b) (i) The famine of Bengal in 1943 killed thirty-lakh people.
(ii) The agricultural labourers, fishermen, transport workers and other casual labourers were affected the most by dramatically increasing price of rice.
(iii) They were the ones who died in this famine.