Karl Polanyi’s argument that these events were more impactful because “the Indian village community had been demolished” is quoted in a 2000 book by historian Mike Davis about these events in the “Late Victorian” era. Richard Temple organized a successful response to one of these events in Bihar in 1874. These events have “never occurred in a functioning democracy” according to Amartya Sen. The ENSO phenomenon and laissez-faire trade policies exacerbated a “Great” one of these events in southern India that began in 1876. Winston Churchill has been heavily criticized for the sparsity of aid offered during one of these events in Bengal during World War II. For 10 points, name these events, one of which occurred in Ireland due to a potato blight. ■END■
ANSWER: famines [or food shortages; accept Bihar famine or Bengal famine or Great Famine of 1876–1878 or Southern India famine of 1876–1878 or Madras famine of 1877; accept Irish potato famine or Great Hunger or Great Famine or an Gorta Mór; accept Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World; prompt on droughts; prompt on Late Victorian Holocausts]
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