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The British government's policy towards famines was in need of first aid measures when the famine occurred.

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Detailed Solution

The above statement is true.
1)      Both the pre- and post-British periods experienced frequent famines.
2)      When the famine occurred, the British government's response was in the form of first-aid efforts.
3)      They didn't take any persistent, long-term actions to reform agriculture and improve the lot of the underprivileged peasantry.
4)      Indian markets were inundated with British imports.
5)      Uneven rainfall and British economic and administrative policies that resulted in the conversion of local farmland to foreign-owned plantations, high taxes on Indian inhabitants, and the export of staple foods from India to Britain were the causes of these famines.
6)      According to estimates, the Bengal famine in 1770 killed up to one-third of the population, and the Bengal famine in 1943 rocked the nation to its very core.

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