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  1. Former province of British India,
  2. divided 1947 into West Bengal, a state of
  3. India, and East Bengal, from 1972 Bangladesh.
  4. The famine in 1943, caused by a slump in
  5. demand for jute and a bad harvest, resulted
  6. in over 3 million deaths.
  7.