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A famine relief project- road workin Bengal, 1936, in a news bureau photo.jpg
A famine relief project: road workin Bengal, 1936, in a news bureau photo. Source: ebay, Sept. 2007.
Caption reads:
INDIANS BUILD ROADS TO PREVENT THEM FROM STARVING.
Owing to this failure of last year's monsoon, tens of thousands of cultivators in West Bangal <sic> are starving and the Government have undertaken Relief works, by which the Indians are roadmaking for which they receive two annas (two pence) a day.
O.P.S. Indians helped by their woman folk busy road making in Bengal to keep them from starving. 50/B. Keystone.
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