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Re:What made the Irish famine so deadly by abeppu on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @01:42PM (#43335059)
Uh, no, the parent comment explicitly said the Bengal famine of 1943, which had up to 3.8M deaths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

The famine of 1876-8 in addition to being worse from the percent-causalities view, and a lifetime earlier (65 years), was also not centered in Bengal but in other regions of India generally further south and west. Different in time, place and severity, and different in the policy response in part b/c the 1943 famine was during WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931...

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