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Group: Murcia, Muslim statelet, or taifa, of
People: Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghawri
Topic: Bengal Famine of 1769-73
Location: Dhaka Dhaka (Dhaka) Bangladesh

Bengal Famine of 1769-73

Years: 1769 - 1773

The Bengal famine of 1770 leaves 15 million dead (one third of the population).

"History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten."

— George Santayana, The Life of Reason (1906)