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Which of the following Viceroys of India...

Which of the following Viceroys of India addressed the Bengal famine of 1943 by ordering the army to distribute relief supplies to the starving rural Bengalis?

A

Lord Wavell

B

Lord Mountabatten

C

Lord Willington

D

Lord Linlithgow

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D
Lord Linlithgow ws the viceroy of India during the Bengal famine 1943. He distributed relief supplies to rural Bengalis. It is believed that the Bengal famine of 1943 which is estimated to have killed up to three million people was not caused by drought but instead was a result of a "complete policy failure" of the then-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
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