Three Famines (26 page)

Abate, Colonel Atnafu

Acheson, Dean

Addis Ababa

Adedeji, Adebayo

Adowa

Aeolus

Afar, the

Afar Liberation Front

Afeworki, Issayas

African famines

agribusiness, Western

aid
see
relief

al-Mahdi, Sadiq

al-Turabi, Hassan

All-Ethiopia Peasants’ Association

All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement

All-Ethiopia Urban Dwellers’

Association

Allenby, Sir Edmund

aman

Amba

resettlement site

amenorrhoea

American Red Cross

American Relief Administration (ARA)

Amery, Leopold

Amrita Bazar Patrika

an Gorta Mór

Board of Guardians

Board of Temporary Relief

cannibalism

Catholic appeal for aid

corn/maize importation

deaths

dysentery

emigration

evictions

exports of foodstuffs

family separation

family survival

fishing and

food riots

food substitutes

foreign aid

grain export during

Gregory-ism

informers

min dèirce

newspaper coverage

Poor Law system

population decline

potato blight

prostitution

Protestantism, conversion to

public works scheme

relief

Relief Commission

reports of

resistance

‘rural outrages’

soup kitchens

‘souperism’

theft

transportation

trigger

whistleblowers

workhouses

Andom, Aman

Angola

anorexia nervosa

Anuak, the

Aseb

Asfaw, Legesse

Asmara

Asosa resettlement camp

Assam

Auchinleck, General Claude

aus

Australia

Bajpai, Sir Girja

Bale

Ballinakill

Ballinglass

Ballykilcline

Band Aid

Bangladesh

Banti, Teferi

Barakpur

Barre, Mohamed Siad

Barry, Marion

Battle of Widow McCormack’s Cabbage Patch

BBC

Belafonte, Harry

Belfast

Bengal

annual rainfall

bargadars

diet

election

food prohibitions

harvests

Hindus

Japanese invasion

land-owning conditions

money-lending

Muslims

political status

population and size

ryots

zamindars

Bengal Central Relief Committee

Bengal Destitute Persons (Repatriation and Relief) Ordnance

Bengal famine

agricultural loans

Air Raid Protection (ARP) doctors

all-India Food Conference Basic Plan

American aid

boat traffic

British administration

callousness

censorship

charitable organisations

chowkidar

confiscation of boats

corruption

cyclones

deaths from

diseases

distribution of grain

drought

export of food from

family abandonment

flight to cities

floods

food substitutes

Foodgrains Control Order

Foodgrains Policy Committee

forcible removal of families

harvests

imports of food

Indian Medical Service

Indian politics, effect of

informal aid

inoculations

internal exodus

khichri

kitchens

Manual of Practical Instructions Regarding Famine Relief Administration

medical history

mofussil

newspaper coverage

political demonstrations

previous famines

prices

propaganda campaign

prostitution

public works

records, lack of

relief

reports of

resistance

rice blast

Rice Denial Scheme

roads

sale of goods

seizure of grain stocks

Tebhaga movement

theft

trigger

village officials

Wavell’s actions on

whistleblowers

World War II, effect

Bengal Famine Inquiry Commission

Benson, Fred

beri-beri

Berkley, Reverend J.M.

Bewley, Joseph

Bewley, Samuel

Bhara Sevashram

Bhattacharya, Bhabani

He Who Rides a Tiger

So Many Hungers

Biafra

Bingham, George, Earl of Lucan

Bishop of Meath

Black Leg

Bose, Subhas Chandra

negotiations with Germany

negotiations with Japan

bovine cholera

Brennan, Reverend Henry

Brezhnev, President

Briend, André

Britain

anti-Irish prejudice

Corn Laws

democracy as

government policy on Irish famine

Irish paupers

Poor Law system

poor relief costs

population growth

private aid to Ireland

reports of Irish famine

scepticism

views of Bengali food emergency

views of Irish famine

Whitehall Treasury

British Association for the Relief of Distress in Ireland and Scotland

British–Indian government policies

confiscation of boats in Bengal

forcible removal of families

Rice Denial Scheme

scepticism

Brougham, Lord

Buck, Pearl S.

Buerk, Michael

Burke, Thomas

Burma

Calcutta

Canada

cannibalism

Carlow

Carroll, Dr

Castletown

Catholic Relief Service

Caulfield, Reverend

causes of famine

land policies

Malthusian theory

natural disasters

official arguments

political economic theories

Providence, role of

theological event, as

cerebral malaria

Chandpur

Channon, Henry ‘Chips’

China International Relief Commission

Chinese famines

Chittagong

cholera

Churchill, Winston

Clanricarde, Lord

Clarendon, Lord

Clonakilty

cluster bombs

Coates, Major Peter

Commins, James

Communist Party of India

Connacht

coping mechanisms

cannibalism

cutting food intake

emigration

family separations

loans

preferencing one child over another

prostitution

sale of assets

stockfeeds as food

substitute foods

theft

Coptic faith

Cork

Cork Southern Reporter

Cork Street Fever Hospital

Corn Laws

Corrigan, Dominic John

County Clare

County Derry

County Donegal

County Kerry

County Limerick

County Longford

County Mayo

County Meath

County Roscommon

Cripps, Sir Stafford

crops

aman

aus

belg

boro

Chinese

potatoes
see
potatoes

rice

teff

Cullinan, Michael

Cultural Survival

culture, loss of

Cummins, Mr N.M.

cyclones

Danakil Depression

Darfur

Das, Professor T.C.

de Cuéllar, Pérez

de Lamartine, Alphonse

de Rothschild, Lionel

de Tocqueville, Alexis

de Waal, Alex

Debre Birhan

DeConcini, Dennis

dehydration

democracy

Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea famine

Derg, the

Famine Committee

Dessie

Devon Commission

diarrhoea

Dickens, Charles

Bleak House

Dimbleby, Jonathan

Unknown Famine, The

Dinnene, John

Dire Dawa

disaster tourism

diseases

beri-beri

cholera

contamination, caused by

dysentery

famine fevers

Firbrhas buidhe

hunger edema

malaria

pneumonia

scurvy

Shigella

‘sleeping sickness’

tropical sores

typhoid fever

typhus

xerophthalmia

yellow fever

Donegal

Donovan, Dr Daniel

Dromoland Castle

dropsy

drought

Dublin

Dublin Castle

Dublin Mendacity Institution

Duke of Wellington

Dungarvan

durra

dysentery

East India Company

Edgeworth, Maria

Edgeworthtown

Elgee, Miss

Eliza Liddell

emigration and famines

Emperor Haile Selassie

Erin’s Queen

Eritrea

reprisal massacres

Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF)

Eritrean Relief Association (ERA)

Ethiopia

abolition of slavery

Agricultural Marketing Corporation (AMC)

Amharic imperial governments

animism

diet

election of leaders

Eritrean rebellion

Falashas

fasting

female circumcision

food policy in

food prohibitions

gult

harvests

Italian invasion

land reforms

land tenure

livestock

Marxist-Leninist state

Mengistu
see
Mengistu, Haile Mariam

overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie

pastoralists

political parties

political system

post-Mengistu

rainfall

Red Star campaign

Red Terror

Russia, association with

religion

roads

Somali invasion

stockfeeds

torture and violence

tribes

Ethiopian Congress

Ethiopian famines

air drops

annual rains, failure of

army

army worms

barter system, breakdown of

bovine cholera

cannibalism

collectivisation

deaths from

diseases

distribution problems

emigration and flight

evictions

family abandonment

food rations

food theft

footage

foreign relief aid

free press, lack of

fundraising though music

hyenas

Kefu Qän