"You see somewhere a man who is starving and if you misunderstand karma — as too many of you do, to the shame of India…"

"Then comes a year of famine; but the nose-rings and gold elbow-bangles are gone and people starve by thousands. What …"

"The Lieutenant Governor of Bengal was to the fullest extent responsible for not having made any preparation against t…"

"He (George Curzon) was likewise determined to prevent famine from being used as a cause for reform. With hunger sprea…"

"And what lesson did the British draw from these catastrophes? The most comprehensive official survey, the Report on t…"

"Sir William Hunter, estimated that 40,000,000 of the people of India were seldom or never able to satisfy their hunge…"

"So great an economic drain out of the resources of the land," says Dutt, "would impoverish the most prosperous countr…"

"According to British records, one million Indians died of famine between 1800 and 1825, 4 million between 1825-1850, …"

"The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 reminds us that taxes have a destructive power, and may be used to deny freedom of re…"

"The mighty peril is the entire starvation of the country [India] by foreign exploiters and its complete and hopeless …"