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Churchill's Secret War
''Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II'' is a book by Madhusree Mukerjee about the Bengal famine of 1943 during the period of British rule in India. It was published in August 2010 by Basic Books of New York, and later that month by Tranquebar Press of Chennai. The book examines the role in the famine, and subsequent partition of India in 1947, of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Mukerjee writes that the famine killed 1.5 million people according to the official estimate and three million according to most others. The book explores how, apart from the United Kingdom itself, British India became "the largest contributor to the empire's war—providing goods and services worth more than £2 billion." Synopsis The book sets out to document how colonial policies and negligence created the condition for a famine to break out in the Bengal region. Mukerjee argues that due to Churchill's racial and political worldview the colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhusree Mukerjee
Madhusree Mukerjee (born 1961) is an Indian-American physicist, writer, editor, and journalist. She is the author of ''The Land of Naked People: Encounters with Stone Age Islanders'' (2003) and '' Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II'' (2010). She is a contributor to the People's Archive of Rural India and a senior editor with Scientific American. Early life and education Mukerjee was born in West Bengal, India. She is a graduate of Jadavpur University with a degree in physics. After obtaining a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago—supervised by Yoichiro Nambu—she began post-doctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Career After completing her post-doctoral studies at Caltech, Mukerjee took up science journalism and worked for ''Physics Today'' for one year and since 2003, she has worked for ''Scientific American'', [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |