Bengal, a terrible famine decimated the lower ____ of India

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Bengal, a terrible famine decimated the lower Gangetic Plain of India.
An estimated 10 million people perished from illnesses brought on by hunger that also hit Assam, Odisha, Jharkhand, and Bangladesh. The British East India Company at the time was in charge of the region. The famine was one of several famines and diseases brought on by famine that wreaked havoc on the Indian subcontinent in the 18th and 19th centuries. Usually, the weather and the East India Company's policies are blamed together. A failed monsoon in 1769, which resulted in widespread drought and two successively unsuccessful rice crops, is said to have been the cause of the famine's beginning.

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