Research on famine in Bengal always attracts the attention of historians but unfortunately, it has not been studied locally as it should have been. At the peak of World War II, in1943, the then undivided Bengal witnessed a period known as the 'Panchaser Manvanantar', which was extended throughout the years 1943 to 1945. It was administrative disaster in Colonial Bengal which the British government never officially acknowledged. None of the districts of East Bengal could escape its brutal clutches mostly such as Chittagong, Dhaka, Faridpur, Tripura, Noakhali, Bakargonj and so on. Among the...