India Citizens Waiting in Line for Soup Kitchen

(Original Caption) India: Famine In India. By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 people had died of starvation in India and the British Government did nothing to control this situation. That number will undoubtedly rise before the final, tragic count is taken. Just released these startling pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of the famine in late October. A triple line of Indians suffering from the famine drags toward a "soup kitchen" in Calcutta. Often, people fell dead before they could reach the food.
(Original Caption) India: Famine In India. By last week, an estimated 1,000,000 people had died of starvation in India and the British Government did nothing to control this situation. That number will undoubtedly rise before the final, tragic count is taken. Just released these startling pictures were taken in Calcutta at the peak of the famine in late October. A triple line of Indians suffering from the famine drags toward a "soup kitchen" in Calcutta. Often, people fell dead before they could reach the food.
India Citizens Waiting in Line for Soup Kitchen
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Bettmann / Contributor
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515421860
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Bettmann
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17 December, 1943
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