A famine relief project: road workin Bengal, 1936, in a news bureau photo. Source: ebay, Sept. 2007.<br>Caption reads:<br><i>INDIANS BUILD ROADS TO PREVENT THEM FROM STARVING.<br>Owing to this failure of last year's monsoon, tens of thousands of cultivators in West Bangal &lt;sic&gt; 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.<br>O.P.S. Indians helped by their woman folk busy road making in Bengal to keep them from starving. 50/B. Keystone.</i>
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