When things like the bengal famine happen because of just diverting India's supply chain to the WWII how the F* do you put up with something like that. If you haven't seen it already read the wikipedia entry[1] and pause and think for a moment, they denied food shipments for almost 2 full years in a famine.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943