:I'm of the opinion that given the magnitude of the Bengal famine, there should be at least one sentence on it in the History section. And given my lack of in-depth knowledge about the famine, I kind of anticipated some opposition to the text. There were clearly a lot of factors behind the famine. But as per the sources which I have read (which includes the Poverty and famines: an essay on entitlement and deprivation by Amartya Sen and excludes the jstor article), there were four main factors behind the famine — disruption of food supply lines during the Burman Campaign, poor food distribution (due to cultural factors and poor food management), soaring food prices (due to mass panic and hoarding) and the incompetent response by the British officials. Anyways, mentioning all the factors behind the famine is beyond the scope of this article. Therefore, just a mention of the scale of the tragedy should suffice.