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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Bryony Gooch

Row breaks out over National Portrait Gallery claims that Churchill starved Indians

The National Portrait Gallery has been criticised for displaying a video installation that accuses Sir Winston Churchill of starving the Indian population.

A 40-minute video by artist Helen Cammock, titled Persistence, claims that Sir Winston used “wilful” mass starvation as part of the Bengal famine in 1943.

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