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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: communication from the government in Bengal to the Court of
Directors. Millions of famished wretches died in the struggle to
live through the few intervening weeks that separated them from
the harvest, their last gaze being probably fixed on the
densely-covered fields that would ripen only a little too late
for them..... Three months later, another bountiful harvest, the
great rice-crop of the year, was gathered in. Abundance returned
to Bengal as suddenly as famine had swooped down upon it, and in
reading some of the manuscript records of December it is
difficult to realize that the scenes of the preceding ten months
have not been hideous phantasmagoria or a long, troubled dream.
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