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IOR/L/E/8/3341

Record Id:
040-000193426
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
040-000193426
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000188.0x000080
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/E/8/3341
Title:

E 15/46 Part V (1) - The Food Situation in India: Bengal Rice

Scope & Content:

File includes:

  • Bengal Rice Fortnightly Statistics for 1947, showing procurement and offtake, Bengal Government Stocks, Provincial average retail price and including figures for equivalent dates in 1946
  • Statement by Krishna Chaterjee entitled 'Famine in Bengal, 1946'
  • Note on ‘The Present Food Situation in Bengal’ (Director-General (Food), Bengal, 8th June 1946)
  • Text of ‘A Report on the Bengal Situation,’ by B R Sen, dated 29th September 1945
  • Letter of the Government of India Department of Food, dated 26th November 1945, regarding the recommendations made in the report on Bengal of Mr B R Sen (with Notes by the Food Division on the report of Mr B R Sen)
  • Note of a discussion on the Bengal rice situation held at the India Office on 26th September 1945
  • Note on estimates of the deficit position of Bengal in rice in the year 1946 (Director of Statistics, 30th November 1945
  • Statement by Mr J P Srivastava on The Food Situation in India (issued by the Bureau of Public Information, Government of India, 12th November 1945)
  • Original Press cuttings and texts of newspaper reports on the food situation in Bengal and the Bengal famine

Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Project / Collection:
India Office Records
Hierarchy Tree:
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Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-000184227
036-000190085
040-000193426
Is part of:
IOR/L/E : Economic Department Records
IOR/L/E/8 : Departmental Papers: Annual Files

 

IOR/L/E/8/3341 : E 15/46 Part V (1) - The Food Situation in India: Bengal Rice
Hierarchy:
032-000184227[0007]/036-000190085[3343]/040-000193426
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/E
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
1 file
Digitised Content:
Languages:
English
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1945
End Date:
1947
Date Range:
Jun 1945-Jul 1947
Era:
CE
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