Authors: Keneally Thomas
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