Artificial Food crisis created during the rule of the greedy merchants
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The 1770 Famine in Bengal
In the 1750s, from the newly conquered Bengal Robert Clive got a thousand ships of gold looted and sent to England, as we saw earlier. Soon after that Bengal fell into a major famine. The Bengal Famine of 1770 (Bengali: ৭৬-এর মন্বন্তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór; lit The Famine of '76) was a famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India from Bihar to the Bengal region. The famine is estimated to have caused deaths of up to 1 crore (10 million people = 10–20+ crores in todays population density). Warren Hastings’s 1772 report estimated that a third of the population in the affected region starved to death.
