# Quote — Tariq Ali, Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes

> [On the Bengal famine of 1943] Three important books that have broken the wall of silence are Mike Davis' pathbreaking study Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the making of the Third World and works exclusively on the famine by two North America-based Bengali scholars, Janam Mukherjee and Madhusree Mukerjee. There are also innumerable articles, such that the picture we now have is virtually complete. What exactly happened?

- Author: [Tariq Ali](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali.md)
- Book: [Winston Churchill: His Times, His Crimes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes.md)
- Page: 268
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/on-the-bengal

## More from this book

> Mukherjee's account makes absolutely clear that, in order to protect the (British) Raj from a Japanese threat that never materialized, the British state sacrificed the lives of some 5 million people. The war cabinet maintained an attitude of callous indifference. In Churchill's case, the indifference was strongly tinged with racism.

p. 278 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/mukherjees-account-makes.md)

> What accounts, then, for his elevation to a cult figure?

p. 5 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/what-accounts-then.md)

> One could add that the manufactured love for Churchill, and the uses made of him, came to embody the nostalgia for an Empire that was long gone.

p. 6 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tariq-ali/winston-churchill-his-times-his-crimes/one-could-add.md)