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The Bengal famine of 1943 killed about:

AThree crore
BThirty thousand
CThirty lakh
DThree lakh
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Thirty lakh
1. Famine brings starvation deaths and epidemics. 2. Thirty lakh people died. 3. Nothing like it has happened in India since. _Source: syllabus Economics, Chapter 4, Food Security in India._
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