Beware, The Farmers Wrath! Lessons from history
The Great Bengal Famine of 1770 took a toll of nearly four million lives in the Bengal Province of East India Company, comprising today’s Bangladesh, West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Assam.
The Golghar was constructed as a granary to store food grains to avert any such famine caused by crop failure, pandemic, war, flood and drought. In 1943, the Second Great Bengal Famine took place killing nearly two million people in the same region as of 1770.
It has been portrayed in the film
Ashani Sanket of Satyajit Ray in which Soumitra Chatterjee and Bobita of Bangladesh played lead roles.